Senior/Principal Backend Data Engineer - Data Platform

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Waterloo, ON
7+ Years Experience
Industrial • Manufacturing
The Role
Seeking dynamic and highly skilled Senior and Principal level Data Engineers to design and build the core foundation of an Enterprise Data Platform, involving architecting, designing, and developing core data platform components with a microservices architecture, creating data platform SDKs and libraries, and optimizing data storage and processing performance for large-scale datasets.
Summary Generated by Built In

At Dematic, we are gearing up to revolutionize our data landscape by building a cutting-edge Enterprise Data Lakehouse Platform. We are forming two pivotal platform teams that will spearhead the creation of the platform's foundational components. These teams go beyond traditional data ingestion; they are architects of a microservices-driven platform, providing abstractions that empower other teams to seamlessly extend the platform.
Role Overview
We are seeking dynamic and highly skilled Senior and Principal level Data Engineers to design and build the core foundation of our Enterprise Data Platform. This role demands engineers who not only possess a profound understanding of the data engineering landscape but have built core foundations in the past. The ideal candidates will contribute significantly to the platform development while actively shaping the future of our data ecosystem.
**Open to providing relocation assistance to Waterloo**

What we offer:

What We Are Looking For: 

 

Responsibilities: 

 

  • Architect, design and develop core data platform components with a microservices architecture, abstracting platform, and infrastructure intricacies. 

  • Create and maintain essential data platform SDKs and libraries, adhering to industry best practices. 

  • Design and develop connector frameworks and modern connectors to source data from disparate applications both on-prem and cloud.  

  • Design and optimize data storage, processing, and querying performance for large-scale datasets using industry best practices. 

  • Design and develop data quality frameworks and processes to ensure the accuracy and reliability of data. 

  • Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and cross functional teams to design data models, database schemas and data storage solutions. 

  • Design and develop advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities on the data platform. 

  • Design and develop observability and data governance frameworks and practices. 

  • Solid experience deployment and release cycles of data assets, ensuring a robust and scalable platform. 

  • Stay up to date with the latest data engineering trends, technologies, and best practices. 

Tasks and Qualifications:

Requirements: 

 

  • 10+ (for senior) 15+ (for principal) of proven experience in modern cloud data engineering, data architectures, data warehousing, and software engineering. 

  • Expertise in architecting, designing, and building end to end data platforms in the GCP environment while adhering to best practices guidelines such as open standards, cost, performance, time to market and minimize vendor lock

  • Solid experience building data platforms in GCP environment.  

  • Solid experience designing and developing modular, distributed data platform components with a microservices architecture. Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, APIs is needed. 

  • Proficiency in data engineering tools and technologies - SQL, Python, Spark, DBT, Airflow, Kafka. 

  • Solid experience implementing data lineage, data quality and data observability for big data workflows. 

  • Strong experience with modern data modeling, data architecture, and data governance principles. 

  • Excellent experience with DataOps principles and test automation.  

  • Excellent experience with observability tools - Grafana and Datadog 

  • Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US without visa requirements. This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship. 

 

Nice to have: 

  • Experience with Data Mesh architecture. 

  • Experience building Semantic layers for data platforms.  

  • Experience building scalable IoT architectures 

Top Skills

Airflow
Dbt
Kafka
Python
Spark
SQL
The Company
Hessen
2,544 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of intralogistics is our home. Our solutions ensure the smooth flow of materials and information in production plants, warehouses, and distribution centers in over 100 countries.

We have around 41,000 employees who make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: the biggest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment in Europe, and one of the world’s leading warehouse automation providers.

Successful? We are, but it’s all down to the motivated, highly trained, and multi-talented people that work for us. Would you like to be part of an international, diverse team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry.

With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a globally active group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis.
No matter which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape our individual action and our collaboration with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both nationally and internationally.

Who makes up the KION Group? With our international brands Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, as well as regional brands Fenwick and OM, we stand for exceptional technology and service expertise for forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment around the world. Dematic expands the portfolio with its automated material handling solutions for intralogistics processes in warehouses, production, and sales

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