Top Data Engineer Jobs in Ottawa

Design, build, and operate shared backend platforms and frameworks for data acquisition, processing, and access. Lead projects from architecture through production, develop event-driven and batch or streaming systems, and improve reliability, observability, scalability, and data quality. Collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, and data scientists, make architectural trade-offs, mentor engineers, and contribute to technical standards. The role may also involve external data integrations and analytics and machine-learning data systems.

Build and maintain MLOps infrastructure for listener data and machine learning systems. Responsibilities include developing CI/CD pipelines, optimizing Apache Spark and Databricks workloads, productionizing models, managing scalable APIs and batch systems, implementing testing and monitoring, and supporting reproducible, cost-efficient cloud and containerized environments.

Develop and maintain ETL processes, SQL Server databases, SSAS models, SSRS reports, and Power BI dashboards. Build unified data models across ERP systems, improve BI performance and data quality, and establish standardized development practices. Collaborate with finance, sales, supply chain, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable data and reporting solutions. Support modernization of the organization’s data environment and contribute to strategic business intelligence initiatives.

Build and maintain scalable data pipelines, integrations, and data models connecting product, customer, sales, billing, and revenue data. Partner with Sales, RevOps, Finance, and Product to support forecasting, reporting, customer intelligence, segmentation, retention, and expansion analysis. Implement data validation, monitoring, documentation, and governance while improving infrastructure and automation for the company’s growing B2B operations.

Designs and maintains reliable data pipelines and computed tables using SparkSQL and PySpark. Integrates IoT, product, customer, external, unstructured, and ML-related data into scalable data models supporting analytics, causal inference, model training, and dashboards. The role requires ETL development, data orchestration, API integration, strong data quality and uptime, and collaboration with Data Science, AI/ML, Analytics, and engineering teams. This is a remote position for candidates residing in Canada.

Develop and maintain large-scale data and machine learning applications using Scala, Python, Spark, AWS, and modern DevOps practices. Responsibilities include designing data pipelines, deploying and monitoring machine learning models, optimizing distributed systems, supporting the full software lifecycle, documenting processes, and collaborating with data science, Data Ops, DevOps, and product teams in an Agile environment.

Designs and builds industrial digital-thread integrations connecting SAP, Tekla PowerFab, MES, machine telemetry, and shop-floor systems. Develops canonical ISA-95-aware data models, OPC UA/MQTT/PLC connectivity, streaming pipelines, AWS data lakes, and master-data mappings for digital twins. Validates integrations using vendor emulators and live plant systems, establishes data standards, and partners with OT and security teams on compliant OT/IT convergence.

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.

Own EULER’s data lifecycle, including instrumentation, validation, reconciliation, privacy, anonymization, canonical data modeling, analytics datasets, documentation, and production pipelines. The role requires strong SQL, software engineering practices, independent ownership, skepticism toward data quality, and clear communication. Preferred experience includes GDPR/LGPD, multi-tenant B2B SaaS, dbt, statistics, Cloudflare Workers, Postgres, Parquet, DuckDB, and Bubble.

Designs and demonstrates secure, scalable Azure database and analytics solutions for enterprise customers. Leads technical sales engagements, proofs of concept, hackathons, architecture workshops, migrations, and production deployments. Advises platform leaders, resolves technical blockers, collaborates with engineering, and develops expertise across Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databases, Databricks, Purview, on-premises data warehouses, Hadoop, and competing analytics platforms.

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.

Architect and own marketing data infrastructure, including Databricks pipelines, Gold Layer tables, semantic models, and trusted analytics foundations. Lead cross-functional data initiatives, translate ambiguous business needs into scalable solutions, improve reliability and quality, and mentor engineers. Build and monitor production LLM and agent systems, automate workflows with AI, and deliver high-quality Python and SQL while validating AI-generated code. Partner with Marketing, Sales, BI, Data Science, and R&D teams.

Designs, builds, automates, and optimizes enterprise cloud data pipelines and platforms. Responsibilities include ETL/ELT, DataOps, CI/CD, data migration, data modeling, data warehousing, lakehouse architecture, database administration, performance tuning, and production support. The role uses Databricks, Azure services, PySpark, SQL, and multiple cloud platforms to deliver scalable structured and unstructured data solutions.

Own and improve Life360’s Ads Data Engineering platform on Databricks. Build, operate, and optimize batch and streaming pipelines, Delta Lake tables, dbt models, semantic layers, and core metrics. Integrate advertising and business data, implement quality and governance controls, manage AWS infrastructure with Terraform, reduce compute costs, and mentor engineers. Partner with analysts, ad strategists, and sales teams to deliver trusted data products while developing AI-assisted engineering tools and workflows.

Performs ETL data migration from legacy utility billing systems into SpryPoint’s platform. Develops Python and SQL scripts, profiles source databases, maps and transforms datasets, validates data quality, and supports reliable go-live integrations. Collaborates with technical and client teams, documents best practices, improves automation and observability, and participates in iterative reviews. This early-career role emphasizes data conversion, auditing, process optimization, and continuous learning.

Build and maintain FinOps data pipelines, BigQuery and dbt models, cost attribution systems, forecasting and anomaly detection models, and cost-versus-revenue analytics. Identify and implement AWS and GCP savings opportunities, automate governance with Python, Terraform, and Lambda, and partner with Engineering, Finance, Product, and leadership on cloud costs, forecasting, reporting, and architecture decisions.

Lead product data engineering across architecture, data modeling, pipelines, monitoring, lineage, and data quality. Build reliable analytical datasets, support experimentation and machine learning use cases, and resolve business-critical pipeline issues. Partner with product and engineering stakeholders to translate business needs into automated data solutions. The role requires ownership of end-to-end data engineering projects, on-call participation, and development of AI-assisted monitoring and automation.

Lead product data engineering initiatives by designing data models, owning critical pipelines, building data quality and lineage monitoring, and supporting experimentation and ML-ready datasets. Translate business needs into automated data solutions, maintain pipeline SLAs through on-call support, and develop AI-assisted tools for issue detection and resolution. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Applied AI teams across Block’s products.

Leads large-scale software engineering projects from design through deployment, provides technical leadership and mentorship, contributes to architecture and engineering standards, drives testing and software quality, resolves production issues, develops scalable solutions, and collaborates across Product, UX, and Engineering teams. The role also supports Agile delivery, incident reviews, prioritization, stakeholder communication, and cross-team technical alignment.

Build and scale production-grade web scraping, content integration, and data pipelines using TypeScript, Java, Kafka, and Solr. Develop event-driven services, REST APIs, parsing and normalization logic, and integrations with content providers and external feeds. Improve pipeline reliability, observability, performance, and data quality while contributing to architecture and technical direction. The role also includes mentoring junior developers and supporting high-volume media content processing.

Develop backend services, event-driven Kafka pipelines, web scrapers, and content integrations that collect, process, and index online media. Build Java REST APIs and TypeScript/Nest.js scraping systems, integrate third-party feeds and APIs, improve content quality, and collaborate with product and engineering teams. Contribute to testing, code reviews, refactoring, and continuous improvement across distributed data-processing systems.

Lead Cohere’s Data Foundation pillar, managing a team responsible for the full data lifecycle. Own the roadmap, BigQuery warehouse, Airflow and Cloud Run orchestration, dbt modeling, Looker and API serving, Terraform infrastructure, governance, access controls, reliability, incident response, and data freshness SLAs. Lead development of an agentic analytics platform and evaluation framework, establish company-wide analytics standards, and partner with product, engineering, security, legal, and business teams.

Lead the architecture and delivery of GitLab’s data products, including near-real-time data ingestion, knowledge graph integrations, data marketplaces, observability, and data-sharing APIs. Translate ambiguous 0-to-1 initiatives into roadmaps, resolve cross-team dependencies, ensure operational readiness across deployment surfaces, and mentor engineers. The role requires deep full-stack expertise, technical leadership, and experience with AI-powered orchestration and multi-tenant SaaS systems.

Own data engineering for workforce forecasting and staffing products. Build and operate Databricks pipelines, lead the Redshift-to-Databricks migration, manage database replication and file ingestion, establish data contracts, handle PII and data residency, monitor quality and costs, and support on-call operations. The role also requires documentation, infrastructure-as-code, collaboration with product and analytics teams, and pipelines supporting forecasting or machine-learning models.