Senior Data Modeler

Senior Data Modeler

At Interac, we design and deliver products and solutions that give Canadians control over their money so they can get more out of life. But that’s not all. Whether we’re leading real-time money movement, driving innovative commerce solutions like open payments for transit systems, or making advancements in new areas like verification and open banking, we are playing a key role in shaping the future of the digital economy in Canada.

Want to make a lasting impact amongst a community of creative thinkers, problem solvers, technical virtuosos, and high-performance application developers? We want to hear from you.

In this role you would be working as a member of the Data Modeling team and collaborating extensively with other functions within Data Analytics—heavily our BI and Data Engineering functions—as well as with a variety of internal stakeholders. This role is best filled by a seasoned data modeler with broad experience designing, developing, and maintaining data models to fuel enterprise dashboards and democratize data insights.

You'll be responsible for:

• Designing and developing data models to support business intelligence and analytics needs.

• Writing modular, reusable, and efficient SQL queries for data transformation

• Implementing and maintaining data quality tests to ensure accuracy and reliability of downstream metrics.

• Working with large and complex data sets to solve difficult problems by applying well-established techniques.

• Collaborating with those who are developing dashboards to design future-proof data models and subsequently working closely with data engineers to promote these models into production.

• Leveraging a variety of technologies including different cloud data warehouses and common tools within the data ecosystem.

• Providing thought leadership on emerging trends and best practices in data modeling and their potential applications to the business.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure data-driven insights are incorporated into decision-making processes.

• Learning new approaches, tools, and techniques and sharing them with the team.

You bring:

• Solid understanding of dbt (our primary framework) and professional experience leveraging it to develop and operationalize data models for downstream analytics.

• A bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science or a related field; our teams bring a diverse set of backgrounds and perspectives.

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in data modeling or a related field with a proven track record of delivering data-driven insights.

• Deep knowledge of data modeling concepts and best practices.

• Experience developing data models in collaboration with a larger team and leveraging Git as a version control system.

• Experienced with SQL (any dialect) including advanced concepts (exposure to PySpark is an asset).

• Strong knowledge accessing and manipulating large amounts of data, across a variety of formats and with a variety of tools, and experience troubleshooting data pipelines / queries—you understand typical bottlenecks and trade-offs.

• Exposure to cloud computing fundamentals and prior experience in the financial services industry would be an asset.

• Possess excellent written and oral communication skills and comfortable interfacing with stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds; we interact with both technical and non-technical audiences and value clear communication and effective storytelling.

• Eligibility to work for Interac Corp. in Canada in a full-time capacity.

Interac requires employees to complete a background check that is completed by one of our service providers.  We use this service to complete the following checks:

• Canadian criminal record check;
• Public safety verification;
• Canadian ID cross-check;
• 5-year employment verification;
• Education verification; and
• If applicable, Credit Inquiry and Social Media Check

How we work
We know that exceptional people have great ideas and are passionate about their work.  Our culture encourages excellence and actively rewards contributions with:
Connection: You’re surrounded by talented people every day who are driven by their passion of a common goal.
Core Values:  They define us. Living them helps us be the best at what we do.
Compensation & Benefits: Pay is driven by individual and corporate performance and we provide a multitude of benefits and perks.
Education: To ensure you are the best at what you do we invest in you

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