data engineer

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Job Overview

This is a great opportunity to learn, grow and become a SME in data management and database optimization in cloud technology, becoming a key player on our infrastructure team. Join our growing organization and you will get the chance to be in the driver seat of innovation and change here at Payfare as we think about new ways to better leverage data in support of our increasing mandate.

Job Title : Data Engineer

Location : Toronto

Type : Full-Time Contract

Job Overview

This is a great opportunity to learn, grow and become a SME in data management and database optimization in cloud technology, becoming a key player on our infrastructure team. Join our growing organization and you will get the chance to be in the driver seat of innovation and change here at Payfare as we think about new ways to better leverage data in support of our increasing mandate.

As a data engineer, you will be joining a team of mixed background technologists. Our mandate is to provide flexible and stable platform solutions that empower our feature development teams to create the highest quality services for our customers. On an ongoing basis, we expand our developing, testing, and deploying reliability and resiliency features. All of this continues to require a strong backbone of database solution and design facilitating data ingestion / extraction in the most optimized way, while also ensuring data protection, integration, and ensuring data availability.

We need someone with experience working in a scalable and critical environment, with hundreds of pipelines and tables

Reports To : Data Engineering Manager

Responsibilities And Duties

• Strong MySQL experience enabling platform growth and scale.
• Advanced expertise and experience on schema design improvements with both tactical and strategic lens to ensure data ingestion / extraction for our warehouse database, supporting current data functions team, external reports, and operations teams.
• Experience working in collaboration with development teams to optimize schema and queries for new features before they go out into production.
• ETL and Data Lakehouse management expertise required.
• Knowledge and experience related to migrations from MySQL to PostgreSQL would be a definite plus.
• Python highly desirable, to support current ETL ingestion scripts.
• Proactively identify improvements to continually improve platform and data resiliency.
• Analyze system problems including root cause determination and manage any needed recovery process to ensure a quick restoration of service without loss of data.
• Strong attention to detail in all daily activities.

Qualifications And Skills

Seniority level

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Job function

Information Technology

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