Overview
Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Toronto, Canada at Jobtailor
You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self.
You’ll work with dynamic colleagues – experts in their fields – who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you’ll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients – who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.
Job Description
The Client Experience Office (CXO) is an important pillar of Sun Life Canada’s Data and Analytics growth and corporate strategy and as such, is seeking experienced data engineering individual with a proven track record working with data consumers to extract meaningful insights from enterprise data. This Senior Business data engineer will play an indispensable role in assembling the necessary data products that fuel myriads of analytical models used by our various business units across Canada.
Reporting to the Manager of Data Engineering, the Senior Business Data Engineer will be a key member of Data Enablement Team responsible for building enriched data products that provide deep insights about our Client, Advisor, Product, Transactions along with their intricate relationships. The Senior Business Data Engineer will work with data analysts and data scientists to help answer complex business enquires such as identifying new business opportunities, understanding our client behavior and optimizing areas of our sales cycles.
What will you do
Design and engineer data models that represent our key business entities such as our Advisor, Client & Product
Ensure high level of data quality and data integrity are maintained across data sources for business data assets
Convert complex business and technical rules into logic for data flows and data pipelines
Obsessed with understanding our enterprise data and interpreting it in the best way possible to derive business value
Work with our Data Science teams to implement data products for various use cases
Collaborate with stakeholders and incorporate into solution design for various use case requirements
Standardize metadata into a common glossary along with the necessary documentation for data consumers
This is a senior individual contributor role bridging the requirements of Business consumers and data engineering practitioners to support the overall Business Data Strategy.
This role will be partnering closely with CXO business stakeholders, enterprise governance and risk partners, and CXO data practitioners
What do you need to succeed
3-5 years hands‑on experience working on major Cloud technologies and programming languages for data processing and analytics
3+ years experience with AWS and Snowflake platforms for building robust ETL pipelines, Catalog management, Data Quality and Governance implementation to keep data compliant and reliable.
3+ years experience and proficiency in Python, Pyspark and SQL
Demonstrated Experience in cost and performance optimization of Spark and SQL jobs
5 years hands‑on experience with relational database systems, relational models, dimensional models, and analytical models
3-5 years experience with engineering data products as input to various analytical models
3-5 years building feedback loops between model deployment and its data – i.e. tune & tweak data products to achieve scale, optimization, etc.
Sound understanding of Data Management principles (data warehousing, data quality, master data management, etc.) and Data Governance principles. Sound understanding of data modelling and a passion for analytics
Proven ability to leverage knowledge of data engineering to extract, conform and integrate a variety of operational data sources into production‑grade data products
Experience of popular data formats like Parquet and Iceberg
Experience in BI Tools like Tableau , Quicksight , Streamlit is a definite plus.
Experience working with very large datasets and familiarity with big data technologies
Excellent verbal and written communication skills; have…
Title: Senior Data Engineer
Company: Jobtailor
Location: Toronto, Canada
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