About the Role
APPLY is the Agentic Customer Experience (ACx) partner for ambitious consumer and entertainment brands, bringing together domain expertise and AI-native delivery to turn CX vision into commercial reality. We partner with leading brands like Arc'teryx, NFL, Lululemon, and Kraft Heinz.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and architectures for analytical and operational workloads.
- Develop and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines for efficient data extraction, transformation, and loading.
- Integrate data pipelines into cloud-native applications in collaboration with backend and platform engineers.
- Manage and optimize cloud data warehouses, primarily BigQuery, ensuring performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Implement data governance, security, and privacy best practices, ensuring compliance.
- Define data models and enable self-service reporting and BI capabilities with analytics teams.
- Develop and maintain data documentation, including data dictionaries, lineage tracking, and metadata management.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize data pipelines for high availability and reliability.
- Stay current with emerging data engineering technologies and best practices to improve data infrastructure.
Requirements
- Certified SnowPro.
- Experience collaborating with distributed teams across North America and Latin America.
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, building modern cloud-based data platforms.
- Strong hands-on experience with Snowflake, including performance tuning, security, and data modeling.
- Advanced SQL skills for analytics engineering and data transformation.
- Proficiency in Python for data processing, automation, and orchestration.
- Experience with dbt or similar analytics engineering frameworks.
- Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Dagster or Apache Airflow.
- Experience enabling or supporting machine learning, feature engineering, or AI-driven use cases on data platforms.
- Solid understanding of data privacy, governance, and compliance best practices.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a pragmatic, delivery-oriented mindset.
- Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to debug and optimize complex data workflows.
- Excellent English communication and collaboration skills.
Skills
- Snowflake
- Python
- SQL
- dbt
- Dagster
- Apache Airflow
- BigQuery
- Snowflake Cortex
- Snowpark
- GenAI
- LLM
- Databricks
- Terraform
- Segment
- Contentful
Location
- Greater Toronto Area, Canada
- Greater Vancouver Area, Canada
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering
Benefits
- Generous training budgets
- Mentorship
- Flexible personal time off (PTO)
- Customizable extended health and dental plan
- Flexible work arrangements
About the Company
- APPLY is the Agentic Customer Experience (ACx) partner for the world's most ambitious consumer and entertainment brands.
- We bring together deep domain expertise across Retail, CPG, Sports, and Media with AI-native delivery capability, designing and delivering agentic solutions that turn CX vision into commercial reality.
- We are the partner of choice for brands like Arc'teryx, NFL, Lululemon, and Kraft Heinz.
Equal Opportunity
- APPLY is a safe, respectful, and inclusive community where differences are celebrated.
- We are committed to equal opportunity and fostering a workplace where everyone belongs.
- For recruitment accommodations, please email careers@applydigital.com.
