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    Senior Data Engineer

    AppDirect
    Montreal, CanadaMontreal
    Remote
    Senior
    Full Time
    15 days ago
    💰$100,000 - $135,000
    hybrid

    Requirements

    • Strong understanding of AI-assisted development workflows with hands-on experience using tools like Cursor, Claude, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot, or ChatGPT
    • Experience with spec-driven development turning requirements into clear specs/plans and acceptance criteria
    • 2+ years building and operating production data pipelines and models on Snowflake using SQL, Python, and dbt
    • 2+ years hands-on experience building modular, version-controlled, and tested data models using dbt
    • 2+ years experience with AWS cloud services
    • Solid understanding of data quality, lineage, validation techniques, and data governance
    • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and work in a distributed team

    What You'll Do

    • Design, build, and evolve the lakehouse data platform with reusable models and pipelines on Snowflake and dbt, and Databricks workloads where appropriate
    • Translate product and business requirements into data models and pipelines by collaborating with PMs, business units, and engineers
    • Migrate legacy ETL processes to modern, efficient streaming and incremental pipelines using Snowflake or Databricks
    • Operate and tune Snowflake for reliability, efficiency, and cost control
    • Apply AI-assisted development tools and spec-driven workflows to design, automate, and ship data pipelines and platform
    • Facilitate scoped data onboarding and empower business unit engineers to build their own data products on the platform
    • Build and evolve data behind customer-facing products to ensure trustworthy product experiences
    • Ensure data quality through robust data governance, automated testing, validation techniques, and lineage
    • Curate rich metadata in Unity Catalog and Snowflake to support downstream consumption including AI agents and semantic layer
    • Research solutions to complex problems and lead proof-of-concepts to evaluate emerging technologies
    • Author and maintain high-quality documentation to support knowledge sharing and AI-assisted workflows

    Nice to Have

    • Hands-on Databricks experience including workspaces, jobs/workflows, Spark SQL/PySpark, Delta Lake
    • Exposure to Fivetran or similar ELT connectors for source-to-warehouse ingestion and schema-evolution handling
    • Exposure to Cube.dev or similar semantic/metrics layer for governed, self-serve analytics and consistent metrics
    • Experience building and maintaining real-time data solutions using streaming platforms like Apache Kafka

    Benefits

    • Performance-based bonuses
    • Full range of benefits

    About AppDirect

    AppDirect is a cloud-based software company that provides a platform for businesses to sell and manage their software subscriptions.

    New York, NY, US
    1000 - 5000
    eCommerce