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Senior Data Engineer

TekRek - 3 Jobs
Toronto, ON
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Full-time
Executive

We're hiring on behalf of a fast-growing tech company building a cloud-native data platform that supports large-scale analytics, real-time processing, and machine learning. This is a high-impact role for a Senior Data Engineer to scale the data platform infrastructure from the ground up.

What You'll Do

  • Design and build robust data platforms on GCP, AWS, or Azure
  • Develop scalable batch and streaming pipelines (Spark, Kafka, dbt, Airflow)
  • Architect data lake and warehouse solutions (BigQuery, Snowflake, Delta Lake)
  • Implement ETL/ELT workflows with strong data governance and reliability
  • Define and evolve semantic layers and data models to support analytics and AI
  • Collaborate with software engineers, analysts, and data scientists to enable data access and insights
  • Establish platform-level best practices for observability, testing, and CI/CD

What We're Looking For

  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering or data platform roles
  • Strong experience designing and scaling cloud-native data platforms; ideally in a start up with a modern data stack.
  • Deep proficiency in Python, Java, or Scala
  • Hands-on experience with tools like BigQuery, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Kafka, Spark
  • Solid SQL and NoSQL database knowledge
  • Cloud infrastructure expertise (GCP preferred, also AWS or Azure)
  • Experience building data platforms that support cross-team use cases (BI, ML, product analytics)

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