Data Engineer jobs in Canada

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Boston, New York, Toronto

Sr. Lead Data Engineer

WHO WE ARE

is a ground-breaking division within delivering world-class solutions to give our clients a competitive edge. We work across the full technology stack from databases and analytics to APIs and web and mobile applications. With a mixture of over 300 consultants, specialists and support professionals in 16 major cities across the world, we’re committed to growth that retains our start-up agility while expanding our opportunities for world-class work.

THE ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• You’ll be working with varied and diverse teams to deliver unique and unprecedented products across industries. The Sr. Lead Data Engineer will serve as a keystone on our larger projects, enabling us to deliver solutions hand-in-hand with consultants, data science specialists, and software engineers. The Data Engineer is the universal translator between IT, business, software engineers, creative designers, behavioral science, and Data Scientists, working directly with clients and project teams. S / he works to understand the business problem being solved, the data required to do so, and the tools to make the data impactful. As a Sr. Lead Data Engineer , you will work alongside Oliver Wyman partners in the Digital and other practice groups, engage directly with clients to understand their business challenges, and craft appropriate solutions to be delivered by a multi-disciplinary team of OW Digital specialists and consultants.

Your responsibilities will include, for example :

• Understanding the overall problem being solved and what flows into it
• Building tools, platforms, and pipelines to enable teams to clearly and cleanly analyze data, build models, and drive decisions
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Determining and fulfilling functional and non-functional requirements while ensuring alignment with budgetary and financial objectives
• Scaling up from “laptop-scale” to “cluster scale” problems, in terms of both infrastructure and problem structure and technique
• Delivering tangible value very rapidly, collaborating with diverse teams of varying backgrounds and disciplines
• Codifying best practices for future reuse in the form of accessible, reusable patterns, templates, and code bases
• Engage with stakeholders across various levels to ensure project alignment and manage expectations effectively
• Collaborating with clients to understand, advise, and recommend on strategic sourcing (internal versus external)
• Joining colleagues in an Oliver Wyman office or client site at least 50% of the time to collaborate and learn

YOUR EXPERIENCE

You are a well-rounded delivery-minded technologist who brings a wealth of real-world experience with :

• Technical background in computer science, software engineering, database systems, distributed systems
• Familiarity with statistics, data science, and machine learning
• A compelling track record of designing and deploying large scale technical solutions, which deliver tangible, ongoing value
• Proven ability to design scalable architecture tailored to client requirements, ensuring alignment with budgetary constraints, project timelines, and financial objectives through effective trade-off analysis
• Expertise in applying best practices for various data architectures (e.g., event-driven, batch, real-time data integrations) focusing on efficient solutions that meet project needs without unnecessary complexity.
• Direct experience having built and deployed robust, complex production systems that implement modern, data scientific methods at scale
• Ability to context-switch, to provide support to dispersed teams which may need an “expert hacker” to unblock an especially challenging technical obstacle, and to work through problems as they are still being defined
• Demonstrated ability to deliver technical projects with a team, often working under tight time constraints to deliver value
• An ‘engineering’ mindset, willing to make rapid, pragmatic decisions to improve performance, accelerate progress or magnify impact
• Comfort with working with distributed teams on code-based deliverables, using version control systems and code reviews
• Ability to conduct data analysis, investigation, and lineage studies to document and enhance data quality and access
• Fluency with distributed and cloud environments and a deep understanding of how to balance computational considerations with theoretical properties
• Use of agile and DevSecOps practices for project management and software delivery
• Demonstrated expertise building backend services with some of the following common languages and tools :
• Pandas, Scikit-Learn, Matplotlib, TensorFlow, Jupyter and other Python data tools
• Spark (Scala and PySpark), HDFS, Kafka and other high volume data tools
• SQL and NoSQL database technologies, such as MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra, MongoDB and ElasticSearch
• Interest / background across sectors (e.g, Financial Services; Health and Life Sciences; Consumer, Retail, Energy, or Transportation)
• A minimum of 6+ years of experience as a data engineer

YOUR ATTRIBUTES

Our team comprises all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds. We don’t care whether you’re loud or quiet, funny or serious, introverted or extroverted. We do, however, ask that you have :

• An undergraduate or advanced degree from a top academic program
• Willingness to be agnostic to a variety of programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, C#, GoLang) and technical stack based on client requirements
• A genuine passion for technology and solving problems
• A pragmatic approach to solutioning and delivery
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• A clear commitment to creating impactful solutions that solve our clients’ problems
• The ability to work fluidly and respectfully with our incredibly talented team
• Willingness to travel

OUR VALUES & CULTURE

We’re serious about making OW Digital a rewarding, enjoyable, and balanced place to work.

Rewarding work

• We’ve worked hard to earn our reputation for high quality work. That reputation allows us to work with major brands at all levels on incredibly exciting projects. Combine that with Oliver Wyman’s status as one of the Fortune 100 “Best Companies to Work For”, and you get a rewarding combination of challenge, support and recognition.

Progressive employment

Flat organizational structures, resolute I&D values and a commitment to rewarding good work make for a progression path truly based on merit. A menu of healthcare options, 401k matching, and a culture of continuous improvement means your work gets more rewarding over time. We are committed to providing our people with growth opportunities via professional training, personal development, and diverse roles and responsibilities.

• Enjoyable days

We want our team members to build a career here—and to be happy. That makes us serious about caring for, mentoring, developing and sponsoring each other.

This commitment also leads to opportunities for social impact and community work on company time.

• Balanced lives

Our work is demanding, and we want you to have the best work-life balance you can.

We’ll work with you to accommodate your personal life with flexible hours and the ability to work from home.

HOW TO APPLY

If you like what you’ve read, we’d love to hear from you. You can submit your CV on our site —please include a short email introducing yourself and what you’re looking for.

The application process will include both technical testing and team fit interviews.

Oliver Wyman is an equal opportunity employer.