Remote Princial Data Engineer (Calgary, Toronto)

Description:

• The Principal Data Engineer will play a critical role in implementing various solutions to ingest, process, and provision data to/from a Data Lake.
• The Data Lake enables data capabilities in reporting, analytics, and allows scientists to explore data in automated and self-service models.
• The role involves taking ownership of development for processing and analyzing data across the data platform.
• Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines to process data into and out of the Data Lake.
• The engineer will work with AWS big data technologies including EMR, Glue, S3, EKS, Lambda, Athena, and RDS.
• The position requires developing and maintaining the data strategy in terms of capabilities and control mechanisms that support the company's responsibilities as a regulated national bank.
• The engineer will provide technical leadership in data systems development, including data ingestion, curation, storage, high-throughput processing, and analytics.
• Collaboration with business partners on requirements, clarification, and results is essential.
• Participation in developing and enforcing data security and access control policies is required.
• The engineer will develop effective controls for a resilient data ingestion process and support application data integration design and build efforts, including real-time capabilities.
• Conducting code reviews in accordance with team processes and standards is also part of the role.

Requirements:

• Candidates must have over 10 years of experience in the field.
• A minimum of 7-10 years of demonstrated ability in a Data Engineering role is required.
• Candidates should have 4-5 years of prior experience working in Web Development.
• Excellent communication skills are necessary to share insights and expectations with clients, stakeholders, and colleagues, both locally and remotely.

Benefits:

• The position offers an attractive compensation package.
• Employees can work remotely or in an office, with the flexibility to reside anywhere in North America.
• The company hires only high-quality talent, allowing employees to do remarkable things and solve tough problems.
• Excellent benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, which are routinely reviewed for enhancements.
• Paid statutory/federal holidays, vacation, and sick days are provided.
• Flexible paid statutory/federal holidays are available to celebrate the culturally diverse team.
• Employees receive R&P branded swag.
• Parental and adoption leave top-up/salary continuance is offered.
• The company provides 401K/RRSP matching.
• A dynamic, fast-paced environment is maintained, emphasizing continuous learning.
• The company hosts various team-building events, including comedian shows, holiday parties, happy hours, and wellness events, both in-person and virtually.