Data Engineer

Location: Remote, Gananoque, ON, Canada

Company

hirify.global is a global IT services and consulting company supporting digital transformation for enterprise and start-up clients across more than 25 countries.

What you will do

• Design, build, and scale reliable ETL pipelines for complex data workflows.
• Automate data ingestion from databases, APIs, and cloud platforms with resilience, fault tolerance, and failover readiness.
• Optimize data storage, processing, and retrieval for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Modernize legacy data systems and implement architectural improvements aligned with future business requirements.
• Lead technical excellence through mentorship, code reviews, best-practice enforcement, and adoption of advanced tools and frameworks.
• Establish data quality, integrity, governance, documentation, self-service analytics, training, and architecture roadmaps in collaboration with analytics, product, engineering, DevOps, and business stakeholders.

Requirements

• 7+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years of hands-on Data Engineering experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL, with proven ETL pipeline development experience.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and cloud-native data engineering tools and services.
• Strong understanding of modern data architecture patterns, including batch processing, streaming, and event-driven systems.
• Ability to optimize data workflows, troubleshoot complex data issues, and ensure high performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Strong project management skills, ability to work independently, manage priorities, and deliver high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in Data Engineering, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or a related field.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree.
• Experience with Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, or equivalent data orchestration tools.
• Previous experience working with large-scale healthcare or insurance organizations.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with a work-from-anywhere culture.
• Health insurance, competitive compensation, and relocation support.
• Certification programs, mentorship, internal mobility, and continuous learning opportunities.
• Impactful projects with global clients in a multicultural, inclusive, and collaborative environment.
• Regular team-building activities and social sustainability initiatives.