Top Data Engineer Jobs in Ottawa

Design and build scalable backend systems, APIs, data models, event-driven services, experimentation platforms, and personalization systems. Partner with Product, Data Science, Analytics, and Design teams to support customer acquisition and engagement. Establish secure, observable, high-performance engineering practices, mentor junior engineers, and participate in monitoring, on-call, and operational support.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data ingestion pipelines, databases and data lakes for credit and lending datasets. Ensure accurate data mappings, monitoring and alerting, translate stakeholder requirements into analytical data flows, and integrate APIs to deliver reliable, high-quality data products.

Design, build, and maintain SparkSQL/PySpark data pipelines in the central data lake to ingest IoT, product, and unstructured data (video/audio). Produce reliable computed tables for analytics, model training, and dashboards; integrate external datasets; ensure high data quality and uptime; and collaborate with Data Science, ML, and cross-functional teams.

As a Principal Data Engineer, you will design and implement LLM, AI-powered security data platforms, mentor engineers, and drive the adoption of data solutions across teams.

Build and ship production AI systems across retrieval, knowledge graphs, inference, agentic workflows, and data platforms. Develop customer-context retrieval, scored signals, workflow automation, evaluation, and observability capabilities. Work hands-on with Python, SQL, dbt, lakehouse data, cloud infrastructure, model selection, and inference-cost optimization. Establish reusable engineering patterns and mentor teams through high-quality code and system design.

Build and operate scalable data pipelines supporting batch and streaming workloads, AI and ML systems, analytics, and sports intelligence products. Responsibilities include ETL/ELT development, data modeling, orchestration, retrieval pipelines, data quality, lineage, monitoring, infrastructure optimization, and collaboration with ML, product, and analytics teams.

Design, build, and operate production AI systems and marketing data infrastructure. Develop retrieval pipelines, agent orchestration, CDP integrations, ETL/ELT pipelines, and analytics. Automate workflows with AI, ensure data quality and reliability, partner with stakeholders, ship Python and SQL code, mentor engineers, and drive requirements to production.

Build and operate production machine learning systems for ranking, retrieval, recommendations, search, propensity, churn, LTV, and next-best-action decisioning. Design reliable signal contracts covering freshness, provenance, confidence, eligibility, and calibration. Lead feature pipelines, model serving, experimentation, monitoring, and feedback loops while evaluating fairness, risk, compliance, trust, and long-term customer impact. Collaborate across product, growth, data, platform, modeling, risk, and compliance teams.

Build and operate production machine learning systems for ranking, retrieval, recommendations, search, propensity, churn, lifecycle intelligence, and next-best-action decisioning. Design reliable signal contracts with freshness, provenance, confidence, and calibration guarantees. Lead experimentation, monitoring, feedback loops, and impact evaluation focused on fairness, trust, risk, compliance, and long-term engagement. Partner across product, growth, data, platform, modeling, risk, and compliance teams.

Own Orum’s data platform architecture, roadmap, reliability, and scalability. Build batch and real-time ETL/ELT pipelines using PostgreSQL, event streams, ClickHouse, BigQuery, and dbt. Administer Looker and develop LookML models, dashboards, and a trusted semantic layer. Establish data quality, governance, lineage, observability, and metric standards while partnering with Product, Finance, GTM, and Operations on analytics, AI, and business intelligence initiatives.

Build and operate Block’s data platform, including warehousing, orchestration, business intelligence, governance, and agentic workflows. Develop reliable Python services, developer tools, and Terraform infrastructure for petabyte-scale data. Partner with data practitioners and product teams, establish engineering standards, provide technical direction, and mentor engineers while ensuring security, reliability, observability, usability, and data governance.

Build and operate a scalable data platform supporting warehousing, orchestration, business intelligence, governance, and agentic workflows. Develop Python services, Terraform infrastructure, and developer tools for petabyte-scale data. Partner with data practitioners and product teams, establish security and reliability patterns, set technical direction, improve engineering standards, and mentor engineers.

Build and operate high-volume telemetry and analytics data pipelines supporting real-time monitoring, product decisions, experimentation, and user experience analysis. Design event instrumentation, schemas, quality checks, deduplication, late-event handling, and identity stitching. Partner with data science, product, and SRE teams to shape requirements, and integrate AI tooling into development and data quality workflows.

Design and operate scalable, cloud-native data pipelines and orchestration systems for imaging, biomarker, and healthcare data. Build Databricks and distributed processing workflows, integrate DICOM data into data lakes, and implement validation, observability, monitoring, and fault tolerance. Collaborate with data science, AI, R&D, product, and data management teams to deliver secure, compliant, reliable data for analytics and machine learning.

Lead design and optimization of data models and pipelines for compliance and risk; standardize metrics and documentation; build data quality, lineage, and monitoring (including AI agents for automation); manage ETL scheduling, on-call pipeline support, and collaborate with product and non-technical partners to translate business needs into automated, production-ready data solutions.

Design, build, optimize, and maintain scalable Databricks data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows. Manage CI/CD with Azure Pipelines and Azure Key Vault, improve performance and cost efficiency, implement data quality and governance practices, troubleshoot distributed systems, collaborate with stakeholders, and support cloud data platform modernization initiatives.

Design, build, and operate scalable data ingestion, replication, and lakehouse infrastructure to move petabytes of data into a Delta Lake on S3. Improve reliability, observability, security, and developer experience for Spark/Databricks processing. Develop internal libraries and tooling (Go/Python), collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help shape long-term data platform and AI-ready infrastructure.

Design, build, and operate large-scale Spark/PySpark data pipelines and the enterprise data platform. Implement data integrations, transformations (Python/SQL), monitoring, and data quality. Build MCP servers and AI-enabled tooling, optimize performance, mentor engineers, and lead cross-functional data projects to enable analytics and automation.

Build and maintain scalable, reliable ML data platform systems to support dataset generation, model training, analytics, monitoring, and large-scale inference. Collaborate with ML, software, and infrastructure engineers to design cost-efficient data lake and training infrastructure using vendor and open-source tools to enable next-generation ML models.

Lead end-to-end data and ML pipelines for onboarding and fraud decisions: ingest streaming and batch sources, build feature platform and entity resolution, productionize ML models, enforce PII/data governance, and set technical direction while mentoring engineers and ensuring low-latency, reliable serving.

Design and own scalable data pipelines, warehousing architecture, and dbt transformation layers from ingestion through analytics and incentive payouts. Lead data-platform architecture, including OLake, Iceberg, and Snowflake workflows. Establish performance, cost, quality, lineage, observability, and schema-drift standards. Partner with engineering and analysts on telematics accuracy and driver incentive reporting while using AI coding tools to accelerate development.

Own production-grade analytics pipelines from design through maintenance, build dbt-based analytical models using Kimball dimensional modeling, and deliver reliable data features. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data Science teams to translate retail signals into business insights. Establish standards for monitoring, documentation, reproducibility, and code quality. Use AI tools to accelerate development and prototype conversational data experiences for natural-language retail data exploration.

Own and scale the company’s analytics infrastructure, including BigQuery data warehouses, dbt data marts, external data exchange, DataOps, data quality, governance, security, and cloud cost optimization. Partner with application database teams, analytics engineers, and data scientists to enable reliable metrics and scalable client data delivery.

As a Data Analyst, you will analyze user behavior, create interactive dashboards, and collaborate with teams to provide actionable insights for product improvement.

The Guidewire Data Engineer will design schemas in Snowflake, develop ETL processes, optimize SQL queries, and integrate Guidewire with data platforms.