Senior Environmental Data Engineer

We are SLR Consulting (Canada), an 800+ team of advisory, environmental/engineering, and regulatory professionals across Canada. We deliver environmental and sustainability services to our clients through the integration of over 30 advisory, technical environmental, and engineering disciplines to help clients address some of their most complex challenges around sustainability. We are Making Sustainability Happen.

As our new Senior Environmental Data Engineer, you will play an important role on a team whose work is essential to achieving this goal.

Role

As our Senior Environmental Data Engineer, you’ll build and maintain custom tools, reports, and data workflows that integrate with EQuIS while working closely with clients to understand their data needs and deliver practical, scalable solutions. You’ll design and run ETL pipelines for lab, field, and logger data; develop secure REST APIs; write and optimize T‑SQL; and support cloud deployments in Azure.

You’ll also help strengthen our engineering practices through code reviews, refactoring, and automated testing, manage CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, contribute to clear documentation, and support project teams with data requests and troubleshooting as our systems evolve. Success in this role comes from effective communication, technical expertise, and the ability to balance multiple priorities in a collaborative, fast‑moving environment.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain custom tools, reports, and data workflows that extend or integrate with EQuIS (EarthSoft)
• Work with internal and external clients to understand their database and data management needs, and develop solutions to meet them
• Design and run ETL pipelines for lab, field, and logger data, including EDDs and EQuIS Live logger feeds
• Build and secure REST APIs to move data between EQuIS and other systems, e.g. ArcGIS Online (AGOL)
• Write and optimize T-SQL against Azure SQL and Microsoft SQL Server
• Deploy, monitor, and maintain cloud services in Azure
• Uphold and improve engineering practices across the codebase, including architecture, refactoring, code reviews, and unit/integration testing
• Manage and enhance source control and CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps
• Contribute to and expand system documentation (READMEs, runbooks, onboarding guides) as our tools and workflows evolve
• Support project teams with data pulls, troubleshooting, and custom technical requests

Working @ SLR

With us, there is no doubt you’ll grow your subject-matter expertise and industry knowledge. We care about investing in our employees for the long-run, and if you ask our team, they’ll tell you that’s just one of the many benefits of working here. We want to be a place where you can experience career growth and satisfaction for many years.

Here’s what else you’ll enjoy as part of our team:

• Competitive total compensation package including comprehensive benefits, vacation, and a suite of wellness initiatives
• The salary range for this position is $95,000 – $120,000. Final agreed upon compensation will be commensurate with individual education, professional designation, experience, internal parity, and location.

• Full-time, permanent role with opportunities for professional growth and advancement

Qualifications/Education/Memberships:

• 10+ years’ experience in environmental data management.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Engineering/Sciences preferred.

Experience in the following:

• 5+ years of professional C# and modern .NET development within collaborative, code‑reviewed teams
• Strong proficiency with SQL Server, Azure SQL, and T‑SQL
• Hands‑on experience deploying, monitoring, and supporting applications in Azure
• Solid testing discipline, including xUnit or NUnit, mocking frameworks, and Git branching workflows
• Experience designing secure REST APIs and building ETL processes
• Understanding of environmental sampling data, including analytical results, chains of custody, lab EDDs, and regulatory criteria
• Proven ability to gather requirements, clarify ambiguity, and anticipate stakeholder needs
• Experience developing or customizing solutions within the EQuIS ecosystem
• Experience with VB.NET or VBA, particularly for modernizing legacy tools into current .NET
• Familiarity with Python for data processing and scripting, and exposure to ArcGIS Online/ESRI integrations

This job posting is for a future opportunity. Artificial intelligence is not being used to screen, assess, or select applicants.

SLR strives to build diverse teams that reflect the communities we work in, and encourages applications from traditionally underrepresented groups including women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as 2SLGBTQI+, veterans, and people with disabilities.