Top Data Jobs in Ottawa

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.

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 and grow a data engineering team to build and operate ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and serving layers. Drive data quality, observability, cost efficiency, self-serve analytics, engineering best practices, and cross-functional partnerships to deliver reliable, reusable data products for product, GTM, finance, and CTO stakeholders.

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.

Manages a data engineering team and oversees scalable, reliable data pipelines, infrastructure, tooling, and architecture. Partners with analytics, finance, compliance, product, and engineering stakeholders while communicating with regulators and supporting audit-driven deadlines. Responsibilities include team leadership, project prioritization, technical guidance, data governance, system design, performance management, and continuous improvement of data engineering practices.

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.

Lead enterprise data architecture across AWS and Databricks Lakehouse: design scalable data models, ensure governance and data quality, mentor teams, evaluate and adopt data technologies (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog), oversee large projects and deliverables, and incorporate generative AI to accelerate data modeling and delivery.

Lead the architecture and scaling of Overstory’s data platform for AI-powered vegetation analysis. Design and operate large-scale geospatial and temporal data pipelines, orchestration systems, event-driven workflows, service-oriented architecture, data quality frameworks, and observability practices. Drive architectural standards, system design, scalability, reliability, and traceability while mentoring engineers and collaborating with data, ML, and product teams.

Leads end-to-end machine learning delivery for insurance transformation programs, including feature engineering, model development, validation, tuning, explainability, governance, and production readiness. Translates business objectives into analytics use cases and delivery plans, manages client relationships, coordinates distributed teams, and supports architecture, UAT, MLOps, monitoring, and deployment discussions. Requires strong Python, statistical modeling, SQL, large-scale data, stakeholder communication, and production ML experience.

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.

Lead pricing modeling and experimentation to optimize margin, conversion, and retention. Build elasticity and willingness-to-pay models, design A/B and bandit experiments, develop pricing automation (DealBot) and monitoring for AI-driven rate recommendations, own ETL/analysis/visualization, and partner with Finance, Risk, Product, and GTM teams to operationalize pricing intelligence.

Build and maintain production-grade dbt data models and pipelines across ingestion, transformation, and visualization. Partner with Finance, Engineering, Sales, Product, and Marketing to deliver reliable data for reporting and decision-making. Improve manual workflows, validate data accuracy, and design scalable solutions using modern data modeling practices. Support financial and revenue-related analytics, including ARR and revenue recognition, while balancing immediate fixes with long-term architecture.

As a Product Manager at Reflow, you will lead product strategy, execution, and delivery while ensuring customer engagement and managing engineering dependencies in an early-stage startup environment.

Design, build, and scale real-time and batch data infrastructure and pipelines (Kafka, Databricks, Snowflake) to power analytics, reporting, and AI-powered data experiences. Drive data modeling, governance, observability, and best practices while partnering with cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers.

Curate, validate, and maintain scientific datasets and metadata for Wiley products, databases, APIs, and software platforms. Assess scientific content quality, acquire data from internal and external sources, develop editorial priorities, and collaborate with product, engineering, scientific, and commercial teams. The role also improves data quality, editorial processes, and content scalability while supporting customer workflows and product releases.

Leads Versapay’s enterprise data strategy, architecture, governance, quality, accessibility, and AI readiness. Builds unified data infrastructure, semantic models, catalogs, asset registries, and governance standards while enabling secure internal and commercial data products. Partners with Product, Engineering, Commercial, Finance, and Legal, and leads the Data Platform Team. Owns data maturity roadmaps, warehouse cost management, AI infrastructure readiness, and executive-level data strategy.

Lead design and rollout of a fit-for-purpose data governance program: manage data lifecycle, implement governance frameworks and tools, drive data catalogs/lineage, upskill stewards, define KPIs, and partner cross-functionally to improve data quality, compliance, and usability.

Manage and optimize high-load Microsoft SQL Server databases, including advanced T-SQL development, query and execution-plan optimization, indexing, locking, memory, disk performance, AlwaysOn availability, maintenance, recovery, security, integrity checks, monitoring, and incident resolution. Support analysts and ML engineers with reliable data access across databases reaching tens of terabytes.

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.

Staff Data Scientist responsible for owning ambiguous, high-impact product and business problems; designing experiments; analyzing product data; developing analytical tools and frameworks; partnering with product, engineering, design, and leadership; and mentoring data scientists. The role requires advanced statistical expertise, strong product judgment, production programming experience, and the ability to translate complex analyses into strategic recommendations.

Lead executive interviews, stakeholder workshops, and current-state assessments to identify operational gaps and opportunities. Develop business cases, operating models, governance, KPIs, roadmaps, and practical AI-enabled solutions. Advise on AI strategy, innovation, commercialization, customer experience, and change management. Support transition of recommendations to delivery teams and occasionally participate in business development.

Lead the development, validation, and maintenance of clinical data programming solutions for EDC/CDMS systems, vendor data, analytics, reports, integrations, and data transfers. Provide technical leadership across studies, serve as a programming subject matter expert, mentor programmers, support study teams, and drive automation and process improvements. Collaborate with data managers, biostatisticians, and project managers to ensure high-quality clinical trial data management solutions.