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Job Title


Data Engineer


Company : Alquemy Search & Consulting


Location : Vancouver, British Columbia


Created : 2025-04-03


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Data Engineer 8 month contract opportunity, high potential to extend ''Hybrid'' work environment - 2 times per week in downtown Vancouver office Seeking a Data Engineer who is passionate about big data technology and delivering data solution to handle TB scale data per day and help the business meet the distinct needs of customers. Role & responsibilities: Data engineering activities including data ingestion, data modelling, data processing data governance Work with team to improve the data pipeline to process large scale data efficiently Be a data steward to educate and promote the data importance and data-driven culture Collaborate with the key stakeholders, product owners, external vendors to define solutions for business and technical requirements Be responsible for system architecture design and data engineering activities including data ingestion, data modelling, data processing and data governance Work as a technical expert and strategic thought leader to the data platform by providing architectural leadership Lead, participate, guide and mentor other team members on architecture and design with hands on Desired skills & experience: SQL Python Google Cloud (GCP) Spark Airflow EKS Experience working with data infrastructure (understand how spark runs, how airflow works with AWS) Architecture design and development of large-scale data platform and data application with simple solutions Have deep understanding on data engineering principles and data modeling Strong knowledge of SQL (MySQL, PostgreSQL) and preferably experience with NoSQL databases Experience with engineering tools such as Airflow, EKS, EMR, Redshift, Kubernetes Good Hadoop ecosystem knowledge (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Hive, Presto) Experience on large-scale multi-tier cloud applications and environments Hands-on experience of high availability systems and API design Experience with CICD tools such as GitHub Actions Familiar with Agile/Scrum software development methodologies $70 - $80 per hour for an INC consultant If you''re interested, please apply with resume If you are a strong fit, I will be in contact quickly to discuss additional details and next steps Best regards,