DATA ENGINEER, RELOCATE TO CANADA WITH WORK VISA SPONSORSHIP

Looking to immigrate to Canada? Canada is ranked the #1 most attractive destination for immigrant workers by The Boston Consulting Group! Our global delivery Centre in Atlantic Canada is growing rapidly, with exciting work opportunities to serve dynamic global enterprise clients from our offices in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island as well as remote work from our beautiful rural communities. We are now welcoming international candidates to join us in delivering a vast array of business and technology solutions for leading organizations. The work permit process is handled by us, in partnership with a specialized law firm. Successful candidates and their family will benefit from a personalized attention throughout their immigration process and their onboarding period. We're expanding in Atlantic Canada and we need your skills, enthusiasm, and dedication as part of our team. The hire will be responsible for expanding and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams. The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up. The Data Engineer will support our software developers, database architects, data analysts and data scientists on data initiatives and will ensure optimal data delivery architecture is consistent throughout ongoing projects. They must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems, and products. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of optimizing or even re-designing our company’s data architecture to support our next generation of products and data initiatives.

 • Good working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.
 • Experience in cloud services such as AWS EMR, EC2, Juypter notebooks
 • Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets.
 • Engagement in activities manipulating, processing, and extracting value from various datasets.
 • Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and scalable ‘big data’ data stores.
 • Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.
 • Experience with AWS & other cloud services: EC2, EMR, Kubernetes, Elastic-Search etc.
 • Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, Kafka etc.
 • Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
 • Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Snowflake etc.
 • Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
 • Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
 • Strong organizational skills & excellent team player

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
 • Bachelor’s in computer science or related field with at least 3-5 years for relevant experience is desiredRequired qualifications to be successful in this role

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