BI Data Engineer

• Location : Onsite at Victoria Downtown office
• Salary : $70,000-110,000 CAD annually (Exact compensation will be based on skills and experience)

On behalf of my client, we're seeking a skilled BI Data Engineer to improve their Big Data systems. My client is a highly successful publisher of mobile and social games and relies heavily on their BI (business intelligence) stack to optimize the player experience and their business.

Key activities and deliverables :

• Design, build and improve ETL (extract, transform and load) pipelines in support of data aggregation and movement
• Implement processes to efficiently maintain data security
• Ensure data is ingestible and usable in reporting visualization tools such as Tableau, Looker, Meta, or PowerBI

Qualified candidates will have :

• 3-5+ years of work experience in data science, engineering or analytics roles
• Bachelor degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or Math, or equivalent experience
• Experience with AWS (Amazon web services) offerings, including S3, EC2 and EMR
• Development ability in python and an Object Oriented programming language
• Drive to thrive in a complex environment with a hands-on approach to problem solving

Preferred candidates will have :

• Master's or PhD in relevant field or equivalent experience
• Practical experience with agile development practices and egoless programming
• Programming skill with Java and / or GoLang
• Experience with Hadoop Ecosystem including Spark, HDFS, Hive, Kafka, Sqoop and Hbase
• Experience with Luigi pipelines for moving data between HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and RDBMS (Relational Database Management System)
• Experience in mobile or social analytics and mobile / social game industries (though interesting perspectives from other industries are also appreciated)
• Current knowledge on the latest technologies in data science, BI and / or data management