About the Role
The Senior Data Engineer will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying scalable data processing pipelines and data platform capabilities using AWS Glue, Lambda, Athena, Redshift, and selected open-source tools. This role ensures data solutions are reliable, efficient, and aligned with engineering standards and best practices. The role collaborates with Data Analysts, Quality Assurance, and cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality data products, enable new business capabilities, and support data-driven decision-making. Additionally, this role contributes to the evolution of the organization’s data architecture, promotes data quality standards, and helps build robust data capabilities that support and accelerate the company’s strategic objectives.
Responsibilities
- Designing, building and maintaining data pipelines.
- Designing and maintaining data infrastructure and ETL processes based on industry standards and best practices.
- Recognizing and adopting best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation.
- Fostering an environment that emphasizes trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team effort.
- Designing architecture and migrating Microsoft/SQL data systems to AWS cloud.
- Designing data models and automating manual processes.
- Maintaining AWS data infrastructure.
- Maintaining and enforcing quality and service standards, analyzing and resolving issues, identifying trends, and recommending improvements.
- Collaborating with the design team.
- Combining technical expertise and problem-solving passion to work closely with project teams, turning complex ideas into end-to-end solutions that transform clients’ businesses.
- Contributing to the design, development and delivery of large-scale data for mobile adoption and transformation projects that deliver business value for clients.
- Conducting technical feasibility assessments and providing project estimates for the design and development of the solution.
- Providing technical inputs to agile processes, such as epic, story and task definition to resolve issues and remove barriers throughout the lifecycle of client engagements.
- Creation and maintenance of multi-platform solutions including hybrid environments using tools such as AWS/ DevOps/ Visual Studio and Cloud services.
- Supporting team members in challenging situations (resource / release challenges, cross-team communication).
- Scheduling ad-hoc meetings to solve for disagreements or ambiguities to reduce risk of jeopardizing milestones and/or artifacts.
- Scheduling and chairing scrum ceremonies.
- Performing other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Must be legally eligible to work in Canada.
- A background check, satisfactory to the employer, may be required of the successful applicant prior to commencing employment.
Skills
- AWS Glue
- AWS Lambda
- AWS Athena
- AWS Redshift
- AWS S3
- AWS DMS
- AWS EC2
- AWS Airflow
- DevOps
- DataOps
- MLOps
- MSOfficce suite
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Teams
- Outlook
- SQL
- R
- Python
- Spark
- Snowflake
- Kafka
- AWS Kinesis
- Databricks
- DBT
- CI/CD tools
- Git
- Jenkins
- Advanced troubleshooting skills
- High level of accountability, reliability, adaptability, and innovation
- Excellent attitude and commitment to providing extraordinary service.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Exemplary interpersonal and influencing skills
- Ability to communicate effectively and work collaboratively across multiple mediums
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Strong organizational skills.
- High tolerance for ambiguity
- Highly adaptive
- Able to manage a large volume of competing priorities.
- Strong critical thinking skills
- Strong written communication skills
- Strong verbal communication skills
Location
- Toronto
- Winnipeg
- Calgary
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior
- 5 to 7 years of experience with data infrastructure in AWS cloud
- 5+ years of experience with data infrastructure in AWS cloud
- 4+ years hands-on of AWS stack
- 3+ years data engineering
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information management or equivalent experience in a related filed(s)
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000 - $120,000 annually
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Accident insurance
- Life insurance
- Other unique benefits per location
About the Company
- Founded in 2017, Wellington-Altus Financial Inc. (Wellington-Altus) is one of Canada’s Top Growing Companies and the parent company to Wellington-Altus Private Counsel Inc., Wellington-Altus USA Inc., Wellington-Altus Insurance Inc., Wellington-Altus Group Solutions Inc., Independent Advisor Solutions Inc., and Wellington-Altus Private Wealth Inc.—the top-rated investment dealer in Canada.
- With more than $50 billion in assets under administration and offices across the country, Wellington-Altus identifies with successful, entrepreneurial advisors and portfolio managers, and their high-net-worth clients.
Equal Opportunity
- Wellington-Altus Private Wealth is strongly committed to equity and diversity within its community and welcomes applications from women, racialized persons, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations and genders. All qualified individuals who would contribute to the further diversification of our organization are encouraged to apply.
- If you require accommodation for the recruitment process, please let us know at the point of application.
