Data Engineer

Manulife • Waterloo, ON

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Join us at Manulife and be part of a team that strives for excellence, where your efforts will directly contribute to our success. Here, your work will have an important impact, and you’ll be empowered to make decisions that improve our marketing strategies and customer experience. As a Data Engineer at Manulife, you would play a critical role in the development and maintenance of the company's data systems and architecture. You would collaborate with other highly skilled data engineers, data architects and governance team in designing, developing, and deploying data pipelines, ETL processes, and other data integration solutions to extract, transform, and load data from various sources into Manulife's data warehouse. This Data Engineer role is essential for driving efficiency and innovation within our organization. By developing and maintaining automation, this position helps streamline operations and improve efficiency, contributing to our mission of delivering high-quality products and platform services. This role is integral to our goal of continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Requirements

• 4 or more years of relevant industry experience as Data Engineer
• Experience in building and operationalizing Data pipelines in cloud MS Azure using Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks.
• Experience in automating data pipelines and familiarity with DevOps and CICD pipelines
• Good working knowledge on MS azure services (SQL Queries, ADLS gen 2, ADF, Databricks, Synapse, SQL Server) to design a data ecosystem.
• Good knowledge of data warehousing concepts and relational data modelling
• Familiarity with programming in both compile languages (Java, Scala) and scripting languages (Python, SQL, R)
• Understanding of Agile scrum methodologies and experience of working in an Agile team, with exposure to and working understanding of collaboration tools like Teams, JIRA, Mural
• Experience in Data processing, performance analysis, tuning and capacity planning

Nice To Haves

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and solutioning skills
• A capacity for constant learning from both success and failure, remaining open to change and continuous improvement
• Familiarity with production release and operational support model

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, and other relevant services
• Develop and maintain the company's data architecture, including data models, schemas, and data dictionaries.
• Integrate data from various sources, ensuring data quality and consistency, and prepare it for analytical and operational use
• Follow consistency of data governance policies and processes to ensure data security, privacy, and compliance.
• Collaborate with other data professionals, including data scientists, analysts, and business team members, to understand data requirements and develop solutions to meet those needs.
• Stay up to date with the latest tools and technologies and see opportunities to enhance Manulife's data infrastructure.
• Ability to learn and implement best practices of big data and cloud computing to ensure solutions are scalable, efficient, and effective.

Benefits

• health
• dental
• mental health
• vision
• short- and long-term disability
• life and AD&D insurance coverage
• adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits
• employee/family assistance plans
• various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions)
• financial education and counseling resources
• generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days
• full range of statutory leaves of absence

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed