Data Engineer

Who We Are

At Momentum Financial Services Group, we help people move forward by reimagining how money works for those who need it most. With more than 40 years of experience, we’re the team behind Money Mart—Canada’s largest non-bank branch network—and a leader in financial solutions for underserved communities.

From short-term loans to money transfers and prepaid cards, we power the products, technology, and operations that connect over a million customers a year to the money they need, when they need it.

At MFSG, we come together across teams and departments to create something bigger than ourselves: solutions that remove barriers and give people access to money they might not get anywhere else. Whether you're solving problems, building systems, or shaping strategy, your work fuels real support for real people.

We’ve Got You Covered

• Compensation Philosophy: Our strategy is simple—we aim to match the market. We regularly review industry standards to ensure our total rewards package is competitive and fair. This commitment helps us attract and retain talented individuals who share our purpose.
• Discretionary Annual Bonus: Enjoy the opportunity for a discretionary bonus based on individual performance and company success.
• Comprehensive Benefits: Our benefits include health and dental plans with 100% of the premiums covered. We also offer an Employee Assistance Program to support your mental well-being and provide resources for personal challenges.
• Retirement Plans: Plan for your future with our robust retirement savings options, ensuring you’re set for the long haul.
• Hybrid Work Environment: Experience the best of both worlds with our hybrid work model, allowing you to balance remote work with in-office. When you're at our corporate head office, enjoy a relaxed and collaborative environment featuring breakout rooms for brainstorming and unwinding, plus a variety of snacks to keep you energized throughout the day.
• Perks and Rewards: Enjoy reimbursement for tuition assistance and professional development, discounts through Perkopolis and participate in our rewards and recognition programs to celebrate your contributions.

The Job: Data Engineer

This role will play a key role in designing and developing the next-gen Dynamic Data Engineering framework. This role will work closely with Data Scientists, Product Managers, and other Engineering teams to ensure that card transaction data, customer behavior metrics, fraud indicators, and operational performance data are accurate, timely, and accessible for analysis and reporting.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the reporting data structure design and oversee the design phases of the projects, ensuring that design conforms to established architecture design guidelines and standards.
• Drive projects that merge digital and transactional data for advanced analytics.
• Support the enhancement of data lake platforms acquiring additional data sources - structured and unstructured. 
• Develop and deliver long-term goals for data architecture standards. Create short-term tactical solutions to achieve long-term objectives and data management roadmap.
• Ensure the success of enterprise-level application roll-outs; connect vendors and providers to select products and services that meet the company's goal.
• Develop highly scalable and extensible Big Data platform which enables collection, storage, modeling, and analysis of massive data sets from numerous channels. 
• Be an active part in analyzing and constantly learning the latest Big Data technologies and their innovative applications in both business intelligence analysis and new service offerings, adopt and implement these insights and best practices.

What You’ll Bring to the Table

• Functional knowledge of financial instruments such as Installment Loans, Payday Loans and data domains such as loans, underwriting, collection, promotions, call center data, Fraud, etc. 
• Strong experience with Azure Synapse Analytics.
• Advanced SQL skills.
• Experience with Azure Data Factory, ADF linked services, or similar orchestration tools.
• Knowledge of data warehousing concepts (ETL/ELT, slowly changing dimensions, data modeling).
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills. • Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Proven experience in Snowflake
• Knowledge of cloud migration concepts and data performance tuning.
• Familiarity with Git / Azure DevOps for CI/CD in data projects

Education + Experience

• 3+ years of relevant experience in Data Engineering
• 3+ years of experience in data analysis, data modeling and data management
• Experience with building a data lake over Cloud / Azure, ADF, Synapse, and Snowflake
• Strong experience with SQL and one other programming language (Python)
• Proven track record of using Data Bricks or Snowflake
• Experience with Azure Data Factory (ADF) for pipeline orchestration.
• Build and maintain ETL pipelines to ensure data quality, performance, and scalability.
• Understanding of data warehousing principles, ETL/ELT processes, and data modeling. 

Ready to shape the future of data engineering in financial services? Apply today and help us build scalable, innovative data solutions that drive smarter decisions for MFSG.