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Senior Data Engineer


Company : Pelmorex Corp. https://static.whatjobs.com/static/


Location : Oakville, Ontario


Created : 2026-05-09


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN A WORKPLACE THAT HAS... Flexible Work Environment Retirement Savings Matching Plan (RRSP). Plan for your future with us! Personal Spending Account Up to $500 to spend on anything related to physical, mental or financial wellbeing (in addition to your Health Care Spending Account) 17 Paid Days Off (in addition to 13 Personal Days) This includes an extra day off during the month of your birthday - our gift to you! An IDEAS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Awareness, Solidarity) team Weather is inclusive, we will be too. Our IDEAS team is committed to making this happen! HAVE WE GOT YOUR ATTENTION? WANT TO LEARN MORE? Read about us here!(spoiler alert we are the home of The Weather Network ) WHY WE NEED YOU? GLAD YOU ASKED... At Pelmorex, were on a mission to transform weather and environmental data into decisiongrade insights for businesses and consumers. Our B2B products help organizations make smarter, safer, and more profitable decisions. To support this mission, were growing our Engineering Insights team and investing in a scalable data analytics and insights platform. Were looking for a Data Engineer who doesnt just move data, but understands how data quality, latency, and design decisions directly impact products, customers, and business outcomes. The Opportunity You will play a foundational role in architecting and building the data systems and analytics capabilities that power multiple B2B products. Your work will directly shape how data is ingested, validated, transformed, and consumed across our B2B product portfolio, ensuring it is reliable, scalable, and decisionready for our customers. In this role, youll collaborate closely with a small, entrepreneurial team of Engineers, Product Managers, and Data Scientists to turn raw data into realworld impact. Our legal note Please note, we are only considering candidates who are eligible to work in Canada and are located in either Greater Toronto Area (GTA) or Montreal. WHAT DOES THE DAYTODAY LOOK LIKE Architect for Scale: You'll define the blueprints for high-scale systems where quality and latency are the primary constraints. Build the Backbone: You will engineer robust pipelines using a cuttingedge stack including Ray, Snowpark, and Apache Beam. Master Workflow Orchestration: You will design and operate sophisticated workflows and intelligent scheduling strategies leveraging Apache Airflow, Snowflake Tasks, and Google Workflows. Power Data Access: You will design and build scalable backend APIs and services in Node.js and Python to deliver reliable, welldefined data to internal and external systems. Optimize GlobalScale Storage: You will design and finetune highperformance storage solutions across BigQuery, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, Cloud Spanner, and GCS, optimizing for cost, performance, and reliability. Own Production Systems: You will build CI/CD pipelines, implement observability and monitoring, and own production systems to ensure data integrity and platform health. WE ARE HOPING YOU HAVE Experience & Ownership: 5+ years of professional experience in Data Engineering and Backend Engineering with demonstrated ownership of production systems. Data Mastery: Deep understanding of ETL/ELT patterns, data modeling, partitioning strategies, idempotent pipeline design, and costaware storage design and compute optimization. Backend Proficiency: Experience designing and building RESTful APIs, handling authentication and authorization, and optimizing queries across relational and NoSQL databases. Cloud Expertise: Proven ability to deploy and manage production workloads in the cloud (e.g., GCP) including a solid grasp of IAM, managed services, serverless, and containerized compute. Technical Leadership: Proven ability to lead design discussions, influence technical direction, mentor teammates, and collaborate effectively with crossfunctional partners. Engineering Rigor: Strong commitment to code and data quality, unit/integration testing, CI/CD, documentation, and owning systems from development to production support. NICE TO HAVE Machine Learning: Experience with supervised/unsupervised learning, feature engineering, distributed training and serving models at scale. Cloud Architecture: Familiarity with cloud networking, VPC design, security best practices, and infrastructureascode (e.g., Terraform). OUR PROMISE TO YOU Well do it professionally and let you focus on doing your best work. Well discuss issues and timelines professionally, so you have the time you need to do the best work you can. You will see the result of your work pushed out to real users quickly. Were a team that enjoys learning new technologies and were open to trying new things. Well try our best not to bog you down with boring meetings. Weather inspires, protects, and transforms. For 35+ years, Pelmorex has led the way with trusted forecasts and alerts. With innovation at our core, we provide precision, speed, and unmatched reliabilitysafeguarding lives, powering decisions, and driving business success. Whatever the weather, we turn its potential into action. Were Pelmorex. Imagine it and well deliver it. Fair and Authentic Interview Experience We welcome candidates using AI tools to prepare for interviews or to learn more about Pelmorex. During the interviews themselves, we expect responses to come from your own experience and thinking. We ask that candidates not use realtime AI assistance, live answer prompts, or automated response tools during interviews. This helps ensure a fair process for everyone and allows us to evaluate how you approach problems and communicate in your own voice. #J-18808-Ljbffr