Data Engineer

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, Ontario

Employment Type : Contract

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.

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 BI 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 Lake management expertise required.
• Knowledge and experience related to migrations from MySQL to PostgreSQL would be a definite PLUS.
• Python / Go experience is not mandatory but 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.

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