Data Platform Engineer

Canada Life

$80K — $95K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • University or College degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years in building production data systems or platform components
  • Strong coding skills in Python
  • Familiarity with engineering best practices and machine learning software development life-cycle
  • Proficient in Azure Machine Learning, AWS SageMaker, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and GitLab
  • Experience managing the machine learning lifecycle
  • Strong communication and leadership skills

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable data platform solutions in a cloud environment
  • Collaborate with internal customers to identify and solve development challenges
  • Enhance DevOps services including monitoring and pipeline support
  • Enable connectivity for data models and their sources
  • Manage resource access permissions for various use cases
  • Mentor data platform engineers and interns
  • Shape long-term strategy and contribute to team growth

Benefits

  • Participation in on-call rotation to support customer needs
  • Opportunities for technical mentorship and career growth
  • Dynamic and collaborative team environment
  • Exposure to cutting-edge cloud technologies
  • Ability to influence platform strategy and decision-making
Full Job Description
Permanent Full Time

Are you a Data Engineer professional with focus on platform administration and support and strong Leadership and Communication skills looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity? Canada Data Team is looking for a Data Platform Engineer to join our team.

The Data Platform Engineer is responsible for providing data platform and tool solutions to support business needs at Canada Life. Leveraging your cloud and Microsoft Azure technical subject matter expertise, you will have the exciting opportunity to design, adapt, and maintain data platform solutions within a cloud environment. You will navigate and reconcile considerations for immediate and future platform needs, encompassing but not limited to scalability, maintainability, performance, accuracy, reliability, security, compliance, cost, and robustness, even in situations where the requirements may be unclear or evolving. You'll collaborate cross-functionally with Product Owners as well as developers, quality assurance, governance & support experts in Toronto and other offices. In this role, you will be part of an on-call rotation in order to service our customers.

What you will do:

  • Design and build highly scalable data platform solutions within a cloud environment.
  • Partner with our internal customers to understand their development pain points and craft platform solutions to address them.
  • Support the effort to build and enhance DevOps services, including platform monitoring, platform, and deployment support for the respective pipelines for data delivery.
  • Connectivity enablement for relevant models and their data sources.
  • Deliver appropriate Resource Access Permissions for respective use cases.
  • Provide technical mentorship to data platform engineers and interns on the team.
  • Help shape the long-term strategy and grow the team.


What you will bring:

  • A University or College education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • 5+ years of experience building production data systems or platform components.
  • Strong coding skills in Python
  • Strong understanding of engineering and infrastructure best practices, general software development principles with a machine learning software development life-cycle orientation
  • Strong experience on Azure Machine Learning and AWS SageMaker, Azure Data Factory, Databricks administration and GitLab.
  • Experience managing the entire machine learning lifecycle.
  • Desirable experience on Azure Cognitive Services and AWS Rekognition.
  • Strong communication skills with an ability to motivate.
  • Customer focus and strong relationship management skills
  • Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities and working within ambiguous situations.
  • Effective time management, prioritization, and decision-making skills


The base salary for this position is between $80,700 - $95,700 annually. This represents base salary only and does not represent other variable compensation components of our total compensation ( i.e. annual bonus, commission etc). If you are selected to move forward in our recruitment process, your recruiter will be able to discuss additional details of our total rewards program with you.

Career opportunities will be open a minimum of 5 business days from the date of posting, closing dates will vary depending on the search activity. All applications received will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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Requisition ID: 6521

Category: Digital Technology

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