Data Engineer

Status : Temporary, Full-Time (1-year term, potential for extension)

Number of Positions : 1

Work Location : Hybrid, Vancouver B.C. (a combination of in-office in Vancouver and remote work)

Who we are

The British Columbia College of Nurses & Midwives (“BCCNM”) is the college empowered under the Health Professions Act to regulate the practice of all licensed practical nurses, nurse practitioners, registered midwives, registered nurses, and registered psychiatric nurses in British Columbia. Regulation helps to protect the public by ensuring that professional care or service received by the public is competent, ethical, and meets the standards that society views as acceptable.

As western Canada’s largest health profession regulator, we believe a diverse and inclusive team enriches our efforts to protect the public. We welcome applications from all who reflect of the communities we serve, and especially encourage Indigenous Peoples and members of equity-seeking groups to apply. We believe diverse perspectives and experiences bring both innovation and better outcomes to the work we do and the decisions we make.

BCCNM’s commitment to Indigenous Specific Anti-Racism

BCCNM is committed to working with Indigenous Peoples and health system partners to support Indigenous-specific anti-racist practices in the health system. As the largest health regulator in Western Canada, BCCNM has the opportunity to influence the health professionals we regulate, as well as the broader health-care system, to break the cycle of racism, and improve health outcomes for Indigenous Peoples. BCCNM has pledged to become culturally safe and anti-racist, and to support the health professionals we regulate to do the same.

What we offer you

We promise to provide you with rewarding work that challenges you. You will be part of a passionate team contributing to our important mandate of protecting the public. As a member of the team, you can expect to be working in a collaborative, team-based environment, and treated in a respectful and professional manner.

The expected starting base salary for this position is $97,226 – $102,086 annually, depending on a variety of factors including qualifications and experience. Once hired, you will progress through a wider salary range over time as you continue to develop job knowledge, skills and competencies for the role.

In addition to base salary, the college offers a generous vacation and extended benefits package. As an employee, you receive 100% employer-paid health and dental benefits. And we contribute to B.C.'s Municipal Pension Plan to help you secure your retirement income. Throughout your career with us, you will engage in a variety of learning and development. We will support your professional development and cover your professional membership costs. To support you in work and life, we provide an employee assistance program and fitness allowance perk. Working with us allows you to enjoy flexible hybrid work. This position is located in Vancouver, but you’ll be able to work remotely up to 3 days a week. Our office is closed for the 11 statutory holidays in B.C. as well as Easter Monday and Boxing Day.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Manager, Business Intelligence and Data, the Data Engineer (DE) supports CRM data migration and Business Intelligence projects by designing and building data management and analytics solutions, ensuring high quality and trusted data is available and accessible to BCCNM to make informed business decisions on our registrants, including developing reporting and analytics systems and self-serve reports for BCCNM internal and external customers.

The DE is responsible for working with data owners and various stakeholders from the business, IT and external teams to ensure successful delivery of the Data Projects.

Scope and Complexity

The DE is responsible for developing and maintaining data pipelines in Azure data platform, designing and managing data repositories, lakes and data warehouse. The DE supports the data governance and data quality strategies on the operational level maintaining the various artifacts on the data assets, including the data dictionary, lineage, ownership and business rules.

The DE works closely with the other data engineers and the data analysts (DA), business analysts (BA), records analyst, privacy analyst, IT and business SME’s. Specifically, for the Data migration project, the DE designs the source to target mapping, extracts the data from the current systems, transforms and loads the data into the new cloud-based CRM solution. The DE also works closely with the Application and QA teams to validate the data ensuring quality and alignment with the data architecture.

Internally, the DE works closely with the Operations Department and other business users within BCCNM.

Externally, the DE works with external stakeholders of the College, which may include other consulting firms, Health Regulators, the Ministry of Health and other agencies or bodies in the health care industry.

Together with Data Analysts, the work of the Data Engineer helps to promote organizational and operational effectiveness and promotes BCCNM’s information governance through managing data accuracy, data quality and integrity.

Duties / Accountabilities

• Work together with other data engineers, data analysts, business analysts, business SME’s, records analyst, and privacy analyst to understand the needs for data and create effective, secure data workflows.
• Responsible for designing, building, and maintaining secure and compliant data processing pipelines using various Microsoft Azure data services and frameworks including but not limited to Azure Fabric, Data factory, blob and Azure Synapse.
• Build databases, data marts or data warehouse and perform data migration work.
• Build reporting and analytical tools to utilize the data pipeline, provide actionable insight into key business performance metrics.
• Design, implement, and maintain data pipelines for data ingestion, processing, and transformation in Microsoft Azure Cloud.
• Create and maintain data storage solutions including Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake, and / or Azure Blob Storage.
• Utilize Azure Data Factory or comparable technologies, create and maintain ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) operations.
• Implement data validation and cleansing procedures to ensure the quality, integrity, and dependability of the data.
• Improve the scalability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of data pipelines.
• Monitor and resolve data pipeline problems to ensure consistency and availability of the data.
• Develop algorithms to transform data into useful data models.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes.
• Adapt and learn new technologies per business requirements.
• Ensure compliance with data governance, privacy and security policies.
• Demonstrates a commitment to ongoing learning related to Indigenous cultural safety and humility to constructively disrupt indigenous-specific racism in BC’s health care system.
• Fosters and maintains an organizational culture that promotes equity, diversity and inclusion, mutual respect, teamwork, and service excellence.

Qualifications

How to apply

If you are interested in this position, please apply online by 11 : 59 pm on February 15, 2026 . Please know we may ask for work samples as part of the screening process. This opportunity will remain posted until filled; however, priority consideration will be given to those who apply by the deadline. To see a full list of our current opportunities or to learn more about working at the BC College of Nurses & Midwives, please visit our website at Careers at BCCNM.

Collection Notice

To apply to a job posting, you need to create an online account with BCCNM. To create an online account as well apply for a job posting, you’ll be asked to provide personal information.

The BC College of Nurses and Midwives (BCCNM) collects your personal information for the purposes of creating your online account as well as for recruiting, evaluating, and selecting employees. The legal authority for collecting this information is under section 26 British Columbia’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. If you have any questions, please contactprivacy@bccnm.ca.

Please note : BCCNM no longer requires staff, contractors, board and committee members, and volunteers to provide an attestation of vaccination related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

In the event of a Public Health Order being issued, the College is committed to full compliance with all directives and guidelines set forth by the Provincial Health Officer (PHO) to ensure the safety and well-being of our employees and the community partners we work with, consistent with the duty of the College to serve and protect the public.

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