ICTC is seeking a Data Engineer to join our dynamic research and labour market intelligence team. The successful candidate will play a key role in developing, managing, and optimizing ICTC’s cloud-based data infrastructure. This role is integral to ensuring that ICTC continues to deliver high-quality data insights and innovative digital solutions that shape Canada’s digital economy.

Working closely with economists and researchers, the Data Engineer will support the ingestion, transformation, and integration of large and diverse datasets. The candidate will leverage their technical expertise to link disparate data sources, implement metadata schemas, and contribute to ICTC’s growing data science and analytics portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the development, optimization, and maintenance of ICTC’s cloud-based data infrastructure.

• Collaborate with internal and external experts to design and implement data management pathways for ingesting and transforming large-scale data from public, private, and bespoke sources.

• Create innovative solutions to link and harmonize disparate datasets.

• Build, clean, and organize datasets for analysis, visualization, and dissemination to stakeholders.

• Assist ICTC economists and researchers by providing data-driven insights and supporting empirical research projects.

• Implement metadata schemas that ensure consistency, scalability, and usability across ICTC data products.

• Recommend and apply improvements to research tools, methodologies, and processes that advance ICTC’s data capabilities.

• Play a key role in advancing ICTC’s data strategy by harmonizing disparate datasets, designing intuitive dashboards, and developing innovative data concepts.

• Advise on best practices for data integration and visualization, and empower decision-makers with the insights needed to shape Canada’s digital future.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field. Equivalent combinations of education and work experience will be considered.

• Experience with cloud computing environments (GCP, AWS, or Azure).

• Strong programming skills in SQL, Git, and Python (or R).

• Familiarity with forecasting, predictive analytics, and statistical modelling.

• Knowledge of data ingestion, transformation, and metadata integration practices.

• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and organizational skills.

• Ability to work independently and manage priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Collaborative mindset with the ability to align with cross-functional teams and deliver results.

Assets:

• Bilingualism (English/French).

• Knowledge of labour economics, workforce development, or labour market policy in Canada.

• Experience developing and maintaining cloud-based data pipelines and resources.

• Superior written and verbal communication skills.

What ICTC Offers

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Opportunities to influence national policy and drive social impact.

• A collaborative, mission-driven work environment.

• Flexible work arrangements and professional development opportunities.

Are you?

• An inspirational leader- Are you someone who motivates others, drives meaningful change, and navigates challenges with grace and resilience?

• Driven and Determined - Are you highly motivated, self-starting, and willing to go above and beyond expectations with the drive to improve and exceed goals?

• Optimism with a “can-do”, results-driven orientation – Are you able to think creatively and successfully navigate barriers and obstacles? Do you stay focused on achieving priority goals and results?

• Dynamic, resilient, and flexible - Are you able to keep up with and embrace the rapid pace of change, advances in technology, intense competition and unparalleled levels of uncertainty? Are you open to change, evolving requirements, continuous feedback, and have the capacity to work with remote teams across Canada?

• A strategic, creative thinker – Are you skilled in analyzing complex situations and relationships? Are you able to channel your curiosity to navigate intricate challenges and drive innovation? Do you identify inter-relationships, patterns, and trends while noticing configurations across seemingly unrelated events? Do you synthesize information to pinpoint opportunities and issues? Do you tend to visualize new possibilities, challenge assumptions, and generate options to solve problems, seize opportunities?

• Collaborative - Are you able to work with and through others to achieve results? Do you have the emotional intelligence to understand the needs and perspectives of others, share information, report back, and be a strong team player?

• A decisive decision-maker – Are you able to analyze situations carefully, seek diverse perspectives, and make decisions that align with strategic goals and objectives?

• Ethical - Can you work with and steward confidential information and data? (This role requires high integrity, good judgment, confidentiality, and ethical compliance)

• Strategic thinker and doer – Are you an expert in developing and executing strategic plans?

• An excellent communicator – Do you have outstanding interpersonal and communication skills?

• Persuasive – Are you able to present concepts, ideas and proposals and close the deal?

• Reliable – Do you demonstrate reliability, organizational skills, and accountability to meet and exceed project and funder deliverable requirements?

• A champion of diversity and inclusion - Are you committed to diversity and inclusion and understanding the issues and challenges faced by diverse groups?

• Passionately committed to lifelong learning - Do you stay abreast on industry trends, seek out new perspectives, and invest in your own personal and professional growth.

Work Environment

ICTC is an entrepreneurial organization committed to advancing Canada's competitive advantage in the digital economy.

We are an agile not-for-profit with a dynamic environment where we are always managing multiple priorities and competing deadlines with excitement and enthusiasm, helping each other succeed, and lending a hand to help achieve collective goals.

Location

Remote—anywhere in Canada.

About ICTC

ICTC is a neutral, not-for-profit national centre of expertise with the mission of strengthening Canada's digital advantage in the global economy. For over 30 years, and with a team of 80+ experts, we have delivered forward-looking research, practical policy advice, and capacity-building solutions for individuals and businesses. Our goal is to ensure that technology is utilized to drive economic growth and innovation, and that Canada's workforce remains competitive on a global scale.

• OUR MISSION IS TO: Strengthen Canada’s digital advantage in a global economy

• OUR VISION IS TO: Foster globally competitive Canadian industries and a prosperous society empowered by innovative digital solutions.

ICTC is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. If you require accommodation measures during any phase of the hiring process, please notify us as soon as possible. All information received in relation to accommodation requests will be kept confidential.

ICTC respectfully acknowledges that ICTC headquarters is on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People.

**If you don’t meet every single qualification, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Application deadline: October 3, 2025