Sr. Data Engineer

About us:

Peoples Group is a boutique Financial Institution with offices located in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal that has been in the Canadian marketplace for over 30 years. Our mission is to exceed our customers’ expectations by providing exceptional customer service backed by extensive product knowledge and experience. Our culture here at Peoples Group is formed by our values; Strength-Based, Relationship Focused and Passionate Execution. We believe people don’t choose a company to work for, they choose a company to join. We also believe that people come first and each day we strive to be willing, trustworthy and creative.

About the work environment:

Peoples Group offers a flexible and hybrid work environment. In this role you will work a combination of in-office and remotely from home. Typically, you’ll be working regular business hours, Monday to Friday between 8:00am and 4:30pm with flexibility around start/end times. We are hiring for this position out of our Toronto offices. Successful candidates who apply outside of this area will be expected to relocate and reside in location that is within a commutable distance.

About you:

You are an experienced data engineer, passionate about designing best in class data solutions for the projects you work on. With your experience and expertise, you strive for high standards of quality when building data engineering workflows and their supporting infrastructure in a cloud-native environment.

About the Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience working in the Data Engineering space.
• Proficiency data engineering concepts, such as data warehouses, ETLs, etc. 
• Expert knowledge with Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) In-memory databases (Redis, etc.) Non-relational databases (MongoDB, etc.).
• Mastery in Python, Spark, DBT, Orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster), Data visualization tools (PowerBI, Tableau, etc.), Data processing solutions (Talend, Monarch).
• 3+ years of hands-on development and designing experience building an enterprise data warehouse or data mesh.
• Expert in using Snowflake.
• 3+ years of experience working in Cloud-Native infrastructure, AWS, Azure or GCP (AWS certification an asset).
• Experienced leveraging cloud native tools, such as object-storage, serverless processes, RDBMS, data processing platforms and collaborating with security teams to build cloud-based data systems that are secure by design. 
• Strong understanding of IT security best practices and data protection regulations. 
• 2+ years of experience working defining standards and guidelines around development (design, implementation) and tools (Jenkins, GitHub Action CI, CircleCI, etc.).
• Experience automating integration and deployment processes and analyzing and fixing issues in systems that are cloud-based.
• Experience developing infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible) an asset.
• Expert knowledge of Logging, monitoring & alerting tools (CloudWatch, DataDog, etc.)  
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field. 

About the day-to-day: 

• Conceptualize, design, build and support data systems with Relational and non-relation data models, Data structuring and queriability (indexing, partitioning, etc.)  
• Responsible for Readiness for data streaming application consumption, Scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance.
• Support data development lifecycle by participating in agile ceremonies, including planning, grooming, retrospective and daily stand ups, and participate in solution design for project.
• Solve technical challenges with the teams, whether it’s a challenging new feature, or solving an issue integrating a new technology, you’re hands on and able to work with the team to solve technical issues. 
• Code review, security review and ensure best practices are followed (unit tests, code formatting, logic and flows, documentation, etc.). 

Compensation:  

Peoples Group is pleased to offer employees a competitive annual salary plus a discretionary profit share opportunity. In addition, we are pleased to offer employees both group benefits and the option to participate in our RRSP matching program, beginning the first day of employment Salary for this position will vary between $120,000.00 and $140,000.00 per year depending on the knowledge, skills, abilities and experience that the chosen candidate possess. As part of our recruiting process, shortlisted candidates will be asked their salary expectations for this position.

Help us get to know you better by answering our application questions! Your participation is expected as an essential part of our selection process. 

NOTE: Peoples Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest; however, only those applicants under consideration will be contacted.