Company Overview Brother is a leading provider of home and office equipment, sewing and crafting products, and industrial solutions. With a legacy spanning over 115 years, our brand is renowned for producing award-winning printers, sewing machines, P-touch labelers, and more. Brother Canada was established in 1960, marking over 65 years of operations. Brother Canada is headquartered in Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Quebec and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Brother International Corporation (BIC), based in the United States. BIC is in itself a subsidiary of Brother Industries Limited (BIL), which was founded in 1908 in Nagoya, Japan and operates in more than 30 countries worldwide.

Why Work at Brother? At Brother Canada, we’re more than a team; we’re a community guided by our culture drivers of Accountability, Authenticity, Excellence, and Boldness. We foster collaboration, growth, and work-life balance through flexible hours, hybrid work options, wellness subsidies, learning and development, recognition programs, and employee discounts. With roots in Montreal since 1960, we embrace continuous improvement and a culture of “Challenging Spirit,” offering stability while delivering a superior customer experience.

Role Overview Reporting to the Manager, Data Engineering, the Senior Data Engineer (Contract) is responsible for designing, maintaining, and delivering scalable, high-performance data solutions that empower better, faster, and simpler decision-making across the organization. This role ensures data is reliable, accessible, and optimized for advanced analytics while driving innovation in data infrastructure. As a technical leader, the Senior Data Engineer will mentor team members, lead complex deployments, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver impactful results aligned with our strategic goals.

Duties & Responsibilities Data Solutions & Pipelines:

• Lead the development, optimization, and maintenance of data pipelines from multiple sources while building and enhancing database business logic, including stored procedures, triggers, and functions, to support efficient ETL/ELT processes for analytics and operations

Infrastructure & Cloud

• Manage modern data warehouses across AWS, Azure, and Snowflake while maintaining and enhancing AWS serverless pipelines—leveraging tools like Step Functions, Fargate, Lambda, SAM, and API integrations—with strong troubleshooting and debugging expertise.

DevOps & Automation

• You own the CI/CD deployment processes for Databricks jobs, serverless pipelines, and database scripts, while driving automation through tools such as Docker and Jenkins.

Advanced Analytics Enablement

• Develop and optimize pipelines to support ML models, simulations, and predictive analytics.

Governance & Documentation

• Ensure data governance best practices are applied to maintain quality, security, and compliance, while also producing comprehensive documentation that supports both developers and business users.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor data engineers to strengthen their skills and foster collaboration, while partnering with analytics, IT, and business teams to ensure solutions align with strategic objectives.

Experience & Qualifications Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• 6-8 years of data engineering experience with leadership in scalable solution delivery.

Technical Skills (Must-Have)

• SQL Expertise — advanced stored procedures, triggers, functions, business logic in Snowflake, AWS RDS, or Azure SQL.
• ETL Tools — Alteryx, Databricks, or equivalent.
• Programming — Python or MySQL.
• Cloud & Serverless — AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Step Functions, Fargate, Lambda, SAM, API integration.
• DevOps — Own CI/CD for data workloads; experience with Docker/Jenkins.
• Visualization — Tableau or Power BI.

Additional Skills

• Experience supporting ML and predictive analytics pipelines.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• Proactive learner, adaptable to emerging technologies.
• Bilingual
• Proficiency in both written and verbal English communication is essential for effective correspondence with clients, suppliers, business partners, and colleagues beyond the province of Quebec.

Additional Details For This Role

• 100% remote position - Enjoy the freedom of working remotely, ensuring a balanced work-life balance, while maintaining our sense of Brother Community and Team Spirit. #atyourside

Our Benefits We believe benefits should empower you to thrive at work and beyond. Our health and wellness benefits go beyond the basics, with medical, dental, vision, mental health support, financial advisors, and fitness programs to keep your mind and body in top shape. We’re big believers in recharging your batteries, with flexible vacation, personal days, summer hours, and a company-wide holiday shutdown so you can enjoy real downtime. Our retirement plan helps your savings grow faster with matching contributions and extra perks like a TFSA and mortgage benefits. And because growth fuels success, we invest in you with development programs, from LinkedIn Learning and Brother curated learnings to tuition reimbursement and personalized development plans. But it’s not all work, we love to celebrate! From BBQs to gala nights and our STAR recognition program, your wins get noticed and rewarded. At Brother Canada, we are truly At Your Side, supporting your success every step of the way.

Our Mission, Vision & Culture Our mission is to live our “at your side” promise to simplify and enrich the lives of our customers, employees, and communities. We aim to be where people and technology meet, providing products and solutions that enhance how people live, work, and create. We look to our strategic culture drivers - accountability, authenticity, boldness, and excellence - to enable us to consistently deliver on our vision, mission, and shared values. These drivers help us shape a culture that empowers the business to succeed.

About Where We Work Brother Canada’s head office and distribution centre in Montreal’s West Island is at the heart of our operations, housing teams in Marketing, Sales, Customer Experience, HR, IT, Finance, Supply Chain, and more. Our sales office in Mississauga, Ontario, and distribution centre in Richmond, British Columbia, support our coast-to-coast operations. We collaborate across Canada and Brother Americas - always At Your Side.