Data Engineer

Vancity is the largest private sector Living Wage Employer in Canada and have been consistently recognized as one of the Top Employers in Canada. Come join our team of 2,600 diverse individuals and access competitive rewards & benefits, all while knowing you are a part of a greater movement.

As a Data Engineer, you’d be involved in projects and work with the team to achieve high quality data integrations and responsible for design and development of scalable data solutions.

This is a full-time, permanent role. This competitively rewarded role will enjoy hybrid working arrangements which can be fulfilled primarily from the Vancity head office location and your Lower Mainland based home office. Periodically, in-person events or activities will be required of you.

This is your chance to contribute to the ongoing Data Platform enhancements to support strategic business initiatives. Grab the opportunity by applying now.

A typical day would involve:  

• Design and build efficient & reliable data pipelines, cleanse, and normalize diverse datasets for Analytics.
• Troubleshoot and resolve problems of data services that support business & applications systems and provide solutions to pro-actively prevent problems from happening.
• Create and manage knowledgebase, access controls, deployment pipeline architecture and infrastructure related to Data Platform.
• Help drive transformation by continuously looking for ways to automate existing processes and optimize for efficiency and data quality, redesigning infrastructure for greater scalability, etc
• Represent team as an subject matter expert for strategic projects and contribute to end-to-end data architecture solutions.

 You are: 

• Customer-centric: You define and measure success through the eyes of your internal customers and anticipate, understand and respond to their evolving needs. Demonstrate strong follow through and consistently keep commitments to members and team.
• Results-oriented: You have a demonstrated ability to engage stakeholders to elicit requirements, analyze findings, generate appropriate solutions, and build deliverables all while securing the team's commitment to these solutions. 
• Technology savvy: You have education and/or experience supporting technology development/implementation efforts. 
• Curious & innovative: You always do your research and analysis to assess and recommend a course of action based on industry, political and economic trends, you can identify risks and opportunities that may impact the business unit and or designated area. 

 You have: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
• 3+ years of industry experience in Data Engineering or related field handling data processing and transformation of disparate datasets
• Experience with big data and analytics programming languages such as Python, R, Spark in Databricks
• Experience with batch and real-time processing frameworks (EventHub, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, etc.)
• Willingness to work in a highly flexible environment with multiple competing priorities.
• Proven ability to innovate and adapt to the latest development in area of expertise. Ability to adapt and grasp new skills and content.

Bonus points, if you have:

• Experience in design and implementation of data integrations in Azure data stack such as Azure Data Lake, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, EventHub.
• Exposure to DevSecOps practices to incorporate security first principles.
• Good understanding of data storage, data mapping and modelling, real-time data handling

The team: In this role, you will report into Manager, Data Engineering 

Salary Band: The salary range for the role is $81,200 to $122,000 and a candidate’s offer is likely to be up to the mid-point of the role $101,600. The upper half of the salary range is typically reserved for individuals who have demonstrated consistent strong performance in the role and possess a high level of job knowledge and skill. 

Posting Deadline: Posted until filled

We offer:

• We are the largest private-sector Living Wage Employer in Canada and have been consistently recognized as one of the Top Employers in Canada
• Our permanent employees qualify for attractive benefit packages that can be customized and changed each year to meet their evolving needs
• New employees receive between three and four weeks of vacation allowance per calendar year, and the number of vacation days grows — to a maximum of six weeks per year — as their length of service increases. In addition, full-time, permanent staff can purchase up to six extra days of vacation through our flexible benefits package.
• In addition to the 10 statutory holidays in British Columbia, Vancity provides an additional three statutory holidays. We offer care days for periods of short-term personal illness or emergency family illness, plus opportunities to take unpaid leave for a variety of reasons.
• We understand that retirement means different things to different people and at Vancity we offer retirement programs to meet diverse needs

At Vancity we’re committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace to help our people and communities thrive and prosper. Diversity in our workforce is integral so that we can truly represent, understand and respond to our community needs and deliver on our member experience. As part of this commitment we are taking action to learn more about our applicants and ask that you complete a short and anonymous Diversity Survey that will influence the design and execution of Vancity’s overall DEI initiatives and programs, one of which aims to advance our commitment to become a financial force for change and build a fair world. Please click this hyperlink to complete the Diversity Survey.  Your responses are collected anonymously and will never be linked to your job application. 

Please note that all shortlisted candidates for this role will be required to complete a background check which includes resume verification, credit check, criminal record check. Vancity is an inclusive and equitable employer and actively seeks to advance racial equity, inclusion and belonging across the organization. Vancity offers required accommodations in all stages of the recruitment process.  If you require an accommodation, please advise us, and we will work with you to meet your needs.