Mitacs Looking for Data Engineer at Vancouver, BC Full Time

Do you want to be part of our innovative and entrepreneurial team?

Do you thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and enjoy working in a team atmosphere? Are you an “outside the box” thinker who strives to implement continuous improvements? Do you take a strategic approach to your work? Do you enjoy in a fast-paced culture where your opinions are valued and respected? Do you enjoy building partnerships to solve mutually beneficial challenges?

Mitacs is a national not-for-profit that helps industry and non-profit partners solve strategic challenges by leveraging Canada’s world-class post-secondary talent and a global network of industry, academic, and government partnerships. Through these collaborations, Mitacs helps business and community partners succeed, improves students’ on-the-job skills development, and strengthens Canada’s world-class innovation ecosystem. At Mitacs, we strive to develop the next generation of innovators with vital research and business skills. In partnership with domestic and international companies, governments and academia, we support a new economy using Canada’s most valuable resource – its people.

To get a better understanding of Mitacs and read more about our values please visit our website

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The Role*

We are looking for a self-directed and curious data engineer who is interested in architecting a vision and implementing data pipelines, warehouses, and services to support Mitacs’s reports, software, and business teams. You would join our small but rapidly growing data management group who is specialized in delivering innovative products and services. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of helping the team maintain the existing data services and build up new and robust systems according to industry best practices.

Responsibilities

• Processing, cleansing, transforming, and verifying the integrity of data used in the analytics
• Design, develop and help maintain data infrastructure to extract, transform, and load data from various data files, APIs, and databases, and to make them accessible to various client-facing applications as well as internal tools
• Design, expand and maintain multi-dimensional data warehouse and data marts for complex data flows and data sources
• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets
• Identify ways to improve performance, reliability, efficiency, and quality of data and database.
• Work closely with Product and Business teams while building solutions
• Align technical approaches across the engineering teams; In conjunction with others maintains the application’s architecture, and a roadmap for projects that evolve toward the target
• Manage and maintain data process deployment and release pipelines using well adopted tools like Jenkins, Flyway and Liquibase
• Work with the data management team as part of the agile software development life cycle
• Coach, mentor and enable developers, testers, and DevOps regarding the resolution of complex technical matters, new technologies and best practices
• Work with diverse stakeholder groups within and beyond to ensure all their needs are met by the solution including managing relationships with external technology and across the system and with other clients
• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business and/or product solutions and value
• Particulate Pull Requests review activities and adopt version control best practices

Required Education, Experience & Competencies

• Engineering or Computer Science degree or equivalent. Master’s degree preferred
• 5+ years dedicated to data engineering, developing, and maintaining data streaming applications, data warehouses, and data lakes
• 5+ years of database system design and development from requirement gathering to go production
• 3+ years’ experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Flyway/Liquibase
• 3+ years’ experience developing data applications in a big-3 cloud data ecosystem
• Strong SQL skills with foundational knowledge that allows you to write efficient stored procedures and queries
• Strong programing skills for common languages like Java, PHP, Python, and scripting
• Experience with Agile methodologies as well as familiar with version control tools like bitbucket

Mitacs has a COVID-19 policy in place that requires all employees to be fully vaccinated to protect our team and our stakeholders, subject to any accommodations required under applicable human rights legislation. More information about getting vaccinated can be found here.

We believe a diverse workforce comprised of individuals with different ideas, strengths, interests and backgrounds which is crucial to our success. We encourage candidates to connect with us and share ways how we may accommodate your needs during the recruitment process.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent