Salary Range: 172000 to 215000 (Currency: CAD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

In this role, you can expect to be responsible for:

• Data Architecture & System Design
• Design data architecture to meet business requirements with guidance from an understanding of best practices for underlying technologies to promote reliability, efficiency and consistency. 
• Decide upon and leverage the most suitable technology for respective goals having evaluated all available options. 
• Review designs from other data engineering team members and collaborate for optimal solutions
• Have a holistic view of data infrastructure and flow 
• Clearly explain design decisions and technical information to non-technical stakeholders


• Data Development
• Implement pipelines and systems with the highest standard of code
• Work with data orchestration technologies
• Develop within a data-ops framework leveraging CI/CD workflows 
• Review code of other data engineers and manage pull requests / code reviews in a source control environment
• Identify opportunities for improvements in existing code and prioritize those against existing workload


• Data Governance
• Work closely with the Data science manager & data director to empower data governance
• Evaluate and implement governance technologies 
• Execute security strategy 


• Team Integration
• Collaborate closely with internal teams & stakeholders to understand requirements and limitations
• Maintain upstream relationships and appreciate roadmap implications for data engineering
• Manage relationships with and evaluate products from external vendors with respect to potential value, risk & migration/implementation costs
• Effectively handle data incidents clearly communicating timelines and forward solutions
• Foster a data-driven culture through connection. Proactively provide data support and seek out value add. 

To be successful in this role, your background includes...

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field 
• 6+ years of related experience
• Detail-oriented and innate problem solving ability 
• Deep understanding of data architecture and system design
• Highly comfortable in a cloud environment 
• Experience with data orchestration tools such as DBT, Airflow & Dataform
• Expertise in SQL, Python
• Knowledge of data governance principles and technologies 
• Understanding of CI/CD processes
• Solid communication skills
• Mentorship experience


• We have a preference for candidates with: 
• GCP experience (bigquery, dataform, dataplex, kubernetes engine) 
• Mongo DB experience
• Experience working with a streaming pipeline
• An understanding of data science 

Our success is due to the hard work of our people. We share our success with our people through flexible benefits and reward programs, sweet swag, snacks, and more. Here’s a look at some of the support we provide our people:

• Extended Health Coverage: effective day one, no waiting period! Our benefits cover health, dental, life, disability, and extended paramedical services such as vision care, mental health practitioners, massage, physiotherapy, acupuncture, and much more.
• DEIB Benefits: DEIB is important to us and to our people - that’s why our benefits include gender-affirming care, fertility care, and other hormonal treatments and drugs.
• Flexible Spending Accounts: our benefits are built on a flex credit model, so you’re able to choose the coverage levels that are right for you, and allocate the rest to a group RRSP/TFSA, Health Spending account, and/or Personal Spending Account.
• RRSP Matching: everyone retires eventually, and we help our people save for their futures with a contribution matching program once you reach 90 days with us.
• PTO and Parental Leave: we offer paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, paid time off for volunteering, sick leave, and holiday closures.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program: this program provides crisis management support, immediate mental health care, and generalized support for emotional, mental, and financial well-being.
• Telus Virtual Health: we provide increased access to remote healthcare providers for prescription refills or referrals from the comfort of your home.
• Learning and growth: We encourage people to grow both personally and professionally, and support this through regular lunch & learns and an education stipend.
• Pay transparency: We share with employees the pay range their role falls within and clear career maps to determine how they can grow within their role or level-up to a promotion. 
• Cool spaces: Our offices are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, Prince Edward Island, and Seoul. Whether it’s summers on the rooftop patio in Downtown Vancouver, watching the fireworks in Montreal’s South Shore, or trying local eats in Downtown Charlottetown - we want our people to feel like their time spent in office is worthwhile!
• Giving back: Our ‘Agents of Change’ initiative is how we support the communities close to our heart, and we have several events and fundraisers every year that Agents of Change organize.
• Hybrid Work: We aim to provide flexible arrangements that suit all work styles. All teams at Kabam are hybrid work environments, with a minimum of 2 days in-office to foster team collaboration and bonding. Full-remote options are also available for certain positions within Kabam.