Lead Data Engineer

Capgemini • Toronto, ON

10d • CA$91,000 - CA$100,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in supporting and managing data engineering pipelines in production environments
• Strong experience in Change Data Capture (CDC) using tools like Debezium and handling file-based ingestion (CSV)
• Hands-on experience with GCP technologies including Pub/Sub, Dataflow (Apache Beam), and Datastream
• Experience working with Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL) environments
• Experience in managing staging and curated data layers for downstream consumption
• Strong understanding of production monitoring, alerting, and incident management processes
• Experience in API-based integrations within data pipelines
• Strong programming experience in Java for data processing and support activities

Responsibilities

• Provide end-to-end production support for data ingestion and processing pipelines
• Monitor and manage CDC pipelines and batch ingestion processes for multiple source systems
• Handle incidents, perform root cause analysis (RCA), and implement preventive fixes
• Work with GCP Pub/Sub topics, subscriptions, DLQs, and alerting mechanisms for pipeline monitoring
• Support data processing layers including staging and transformed datasets
• Perform production deployments and coordinate testing across lower environments
• Troubleshoot and resolve data, performance, and pipeline failures within SLAs
• Serve as technical lead for AMS support, coordinating day-to-day operations
• Own incident communication, escalation, and stakeholder updates
• Maintain operational runbooks and provide guidance to L2/L3 support teams
• Identify recurring issues and drive continuous improvements for system stability and reliability

Benefits

• Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
• Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
• Life and disability insurance
• Employee assistance programs
• Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility

What This Job Offers

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