Senior Data Engineer (Graph focused), Fixed Term - Toronto

DEPT® • Toronto, ON

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

This is a 6-month fixed-term salaried contract role for a Senior Data Engineer, preferably located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The role involves being a core technical contributor on an evaluation team for a major client, focusing on determining the best database solution for an enterprise-scale knowledge graph. The work is hands-on and benchmark-driven, requiring measured results rather than opinions.

Requirements

• Databricks fluency
• Hands-on experience with at least two graph databases (Neo4j and/or TigerGraph strongly preferred)
• Working proficiency in Cypher at minimum
• Strong PostgreSQL skills: recursive CTEs, materialized views, query plan analysis, index strategy
• Comfort spinning up and tearing down database environments repeatedly in a structured evaluation context
• Experience designing and executing structured technology benchmarks at enterprise scale

Nice To Haves

• KYC/AML domain knowledge
• Kubernetes for database workloads
• AWS-native database deployment

Responsibilities

• Pull data from Databricks, transform it, and load it into multiple graph database candidates for evaluation.
• Build and manage relationship structures and entity linkages within each graph database to mirror real production data models.
• Implement benchmark queries in each technology's native language (Cypher, GSQL, nGQL, AQL, openCypher) and as PostgreSQL recursive CTEs for the baseline.
• Build APIs against each candidate to evaluate real-world query performance across use cases.
• Contribute scored candidate evaluations and written analysis to a final technology recommendation presented to engineering and architecture leadership.

Benefits

• 15 days holiday (per annum, pro rata)
• 10 paid sick days off, not pro rata
• A flexible, hybrid working policy
• Buddy Program
• Certified B Corp® status
• Opportunity to work with awesome clients
• Training, development, and certifications
• Global annual DEPT® Cares Month
• Office perks in Toronto office (biweekly breakfasts and lunches, free snacks, team events)

What This Job Offers

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