Senior AWS Data Engineer
Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data lakes on AWS. Migrate existing Netezza features to AWS and ensure data quality, security, and performance optimization.
- Hybrid
- Toronto, ON
- Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Apply by Oct 9, 2026
- 1 position
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Job summary
Role: Cloud Data Engineer Location: Toronto; Hybrid 2 days a week in office Contract “MUST HAVE” skills and experience for this requirement. Amazon S3 (Data Lake) AWS Glue (ETL) AWS Lambda Amazon Redshift AWS Step Functions AWS IAM & CloudWatch IBM Netezza Role and Responsibilities Resource have strong data warehouse technical knowledge. Resource have knowledge in Bank and financial domain (Minimum 12+ years of experience). Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and workflows on AWS Build and manage data lakes and data warehouses (e.g., S3, Redshift) Develop ETL/ELT processes using tools like AWS Glue, Lambda, or Spark Strong solution Knowledge in AWS Cloud and hands on experience with ETL process (like Kafka message processing, batch interface data injection and other business layer process) Optimize data ingestion, transformation, and loading processes Work with stakeholders to understand and deliver data requirements Ensure data quality, governance, and security compliance Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines and workflows Automate deployments using CI/CD pipelines Improve performance, cost optimization, and scalability Coordinate with clients, data users and key stakeholders to understand feature requirements needed merge them to create reusable design patterns Data onboarding using the developed frameworks Understand and make sense of available code in Netezza to design a best way to implement its current features in AWS Data Lake Unit test code and aid with QA/SIT/Perf testing Migration to production environment Good to have AWS Certifications (Solutions Architect / Data Analytics) Experience with Airflow (or Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow - MWAA) Exposure to Snowflake, Databricks, or Delta Lake
What you’ll do
Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data lakes on AWS. Migrate existing Netezza features to AWS and ensure data quality, security, and performance optimization.
Requirements
Requires over 12 years of experience in the banking and financial domain with strong AWS cloud and ETL expertise. Proficiency in S3, Glue, Lambda, and Redshift is essential.
Listed skills
- CI/CDPreferred
Other relevant skills
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- Amazon S3
- AWS Glue
- AWS Lambda
- Amazon Redshift
- AWS Step Functions
- AWS IAM
- CloudWatch
- IBM Netezza
- ETL/ELT
- Apache Spark
- Kafka
- CI/CD
- Airflow
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- Delta Lake
Job areas
- Data & Analytics
- Technology
- Software
- Engineering
- Finance & Accounting
Additional details
- Minimum experience
- 12+ years
- Apply by
- Oct 9, 2026
- Posting language
- English
- Working hours
- 40 hours per week
- Office presence
- 2 days per week
- Seniority
- Mid-Senior level
- Application method
- Direct apply is available
