Staff BI Data Engineer

Toronto, Canada

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Loblaw Digital

Trying new things, poking holes in old things and making great things even better for Loblaw Companies Ltd. From websites, apps and loyalty programs, to delivery services and everything in between. We bring digital experiences to life, solving...

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At Loblaw Digital, we know that our customers expect the best from us. Whether that means building the best, most innovative online shopping experiences, or designing an app that will impact the lives of people across the country, we’re up for the challenge. Loblaw Digital is the team responsible for building and operating the online businesses of Canada’s largest and most successful retailer. Based in downtown Toronto, we are an entrepreneurial, fast-paced, and collaborative team working towards transforming the way Canadians shop by creating leading eCommerce experiences in the online grocery shopping, beauty, pharmacy, loyalty, and apparel spaces, and we’re only just getting started! To achieve these goals, we are looking for talented and passionate individuals who want to collaborate and solve challenging problems and make significant and lasting impact on Canadians. 
Why is this role important?  
As a Staff Business Intelligence Data Engineer, you will impact our business by fueling the best in class data analytic and reporting platform at Loblaw Digital that will empower our business users in making data driven decisions and strategies in their everyday work. You’ll work with users across the organization to understand how data helps them and translate that into solutions that will bring data from various systems into our data warehouse. We’re looking to turn our enviable wealth of data into actionable insights and meaningful recommendations that drive growth and improved engagement across all of our lines of business, and a customer-focused mindset is a must-have.

What you'll do

  • Take ownership of the technical architecture and help define team roadmap
  • Work with stakeholders to design solutions that support various data consumers 
  • Lead the implementation of solutions and provide guidance and mentorship for other team members
  • Continuously improve overall system performance to achieve better SLO
  • Design and implement monitoring solutions for ELT/ETL pipelines and data quality
  • Be an expert on the entire BI framework stack from infrastructure to data governance
  • Set the bars for team to follow best practices and review team MRs
  • Manage and overseeing deployment activities and provide support when issue escalates
  • Build strong relationships with other tech teams as well as analytics teams across all areas of the business. For example: Developers, Product Managers, Merchandisers, Marketers, and Operations Analysts
  • Help us in our mission to be a hypotheses-driven product development organization which means data is at the center of everything we do

Does this sound like you?

  • BA/BS in math, computer science, engineering or related field
  • 6+ yrs of experience in BI, data engineer, or architect role
  • Deep expertise in data architecture including data lake and warehouse
  • Experience with cloud data technologies
  • Exposure to Airflow, docker, DBT and open source ETL tools
  • Expert level in SQL and query performance tuning
  • Experience in large scale data processing using Python or Java
  • Working experience with Git
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Solid stakeholder management skills
  • Proven team player that will work well in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
  • Experience working in an agile environment
  • Experience in retail or ecommerce is a plus
  • Strong desire to learn and to push the boundaries of what can be done to better empower our business with data
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How you’ll succeed
At Loblaw Digital, we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture. We believe great people model our values, are authentic, build trust and make connections. We’re able to keep innovating because our colleagues are passionate about their work and excited about the future of eCommerce. You will get to work with some of the best digital minds and will have the support of world class technologies to craft products our customers will love!
Loblaw Digital recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the products we sell, the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired. In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing.  Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

Tags: Agile Airflow Architecture Business Intelligence Computer Science Data governance Data quality Data warehouse Docker E-commerce ELT Engineering ETL Git Mathematics Open Source Pipelines Python SQL

Perks/benefits: Team events

Regions: Remote/Anywhere North America
Country: Canada
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