Senior Data Engineering
At a glance
Senior Data Engineering role at Autodesk. Toronto · full-time · CA$100,000–CA$146,300 base.
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What you'll do
- Build and look after pipelines that extract, clean, transform and load data into Snowflake or Hive
- Turn stakeholder needs into tested pipeline features and dependable datasets, coordinating with data analysts
- Improve warehouse workflows, ETL scripts and data-processing framework components
- Track data quality and durability so ingestion, processing and storage disruptions can be spotted and addressed
- Automate data workflows, support self-service tools and answer questions from downstream data users
What you bring
- A computer science, information systems or related degree, plus at least five years working as a data engineer
- Hands-on Snowflake experience, including Snowflake utilities, Snow SQL, Snow Pipe and cost optimization
- Experience with Python and SQL, Airflow, DBT, Git, and big-data tools such as Hive, Spark or Presto
- You can build maintainable code and have used LLMs or AI coding tools for data engineering
Who this fits
This senior role suits an experienced data engineer who can work across pipelines, data quality and analytics support. You’ll need to be ready to work flexible European hours. The role is based in Toronto, and in-person onboarding or identity verification may be required.
From the employer
Job Requisition ID #
26WD101237Position Overview
We are looking for an exceptional analytics/data engineer to transform, optimize, test, and maintain architectures for enterprise analytics databases, data pipelines, and processing systems, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams. The mission of the team is to empower decision makers and the broader data communities through trusted data assets and scalable self-serve analytics. The focus of your work will be engineering new pipelines and maintaining, creating frameworks, enhancing existing data pipeline with new features to ensure accurate data delivery to stakeholders in a timely manner, also support ad-hoc reporting requirements that facilitate data-driven actionable insights and decision making at Autodesk.
Responsibilities
- Maintain/develop data pipelines required for the extraction, transformation, cleaning, pre-processing, aggregation and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources into Snowflake or Hive warehouses using Python, SQL, DBT, other data technologies
- Design, implement, test and maintain data pipelines/ new features based on stakeholders’ requirements
- Develop/maintain scalable, available, quality assured analytical building blocks/datasets by close coordination with data analysts
- Optimize/ maintain workflows/ scripts on present data warehouses and present ETL
- Design / develop / maintain components of data processing frameworks
- Basic Knowledge of using LLMs and using AI tools like Co-pilot for development purposes
- Build and maintain data quality and durability tracking mechanisms in order to provide visibility into and address inevitable disruptions in data ingestion, processing, and storage
- Translate deeply technical designs into business appropriate representations as well as analyze business needs and requirements ensuring implementation of data services directly correlates to the strategy and growth of the business
- Focus on automation use cases, CI/CD approaches and self-service modules relevant for data domains
- Address questions and concerns from downstream data consumers through appropriate channels
- Create data tools for analytics and BI teams that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader
- Stay up to date with data engineering best practices, patterns, evaluate and analyze new technologies, capabilities, open-source software in context of our data strategy to ensure we are adapting, extending, or replacing our own core technologies to stay ahead of the industry
- Contribute to Analytics engineering process
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related discipline
- 5+ years in the Data Engineer role
- Built processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, data quality, and workload management
- Working experience with Snowflake, Hands-on experience with Snowflake utilities, Snow SQL, Snow Pipe. Must have worked on Snowflake Cost optimization scenarios
- Overall solid programming skills, able to write modular, maintainable code, preferably Python & SQL
- Have experience with workflow management solutions like Airflow
- Have experience on Data transformation tools like DBT
- Basic understanding of how to use LLMs for data engineering purposes and tools like GitHub, Copilot, etc.
- Experience working with Git
- Experience working with big data stack environment, like, Hive, Spark and Presto
- Strong analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills
- Familiar with Scrum
- Ready to work flexible European hours
Preferred Qualifications
- Snowflake
- DBT
- Airflow
- CI/CD (Jenkins)
- Basic understanding of Power BI
- AWS environment, for example S3, Lambda, Glue, Cloud watch
- Experience working with remote teams spread across multiple time-zones
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Have a hunger to learn and the ability to operate in a self-guided manner
Learn More
About Autodesk
Welcome to Autodesk! Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.
We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it’s at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.
When you’re an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us!
Salary transparency
Salary is one part of Autodesk’s competitive compensation package. For Canada based roles, we expect a starting base salary between $100,000 and $146,300. Offers are based on the candidate’s experience and geographic location, and may exceed this range. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.Belonging
We take pride in cultivating a culture of belonging where everyone can thrive. Learn more here: https://www.autodesk.com/company/global-belonging
In-Person Onboarding and Identity Verification
This role may require in-person onboarding and/or in-person ID verification.