Senior Data Platform Engineer

ELITS Canada Inc. is a subsidiary of Accelerate at Iver. Our parent company Iver has 1,700 employees today and is growing and now we are looking for new employees who want to join our journey. As part of Accelerate at Iver, you are at the absolute forefront of technology and work on exciting digitization and transformation projects with market-leading customers. We are passionate about realizing digital opportunities in the cloud. Together with our customers, we close the gap between aspiration and successful implementation. Communication is an essential part of the work since we work closely with our customers. As an employee at ELITS you will become a part of a great team that always responds to the customer with humility, and at the same time is very proud of what we deliver.

ELITS is now looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer for our operations in Montreal.

About the job:

• Deliver curated, reusable datasets for BI, analytics, and ML.
• Build and run ingestion, transformation, and serving pipelines (batch and streaming).
• Implement governance: ownership, PII handling, RBAC, retention, audit and compliance.
• Set up and monitor data quality and observability (checks, alerts, incident handling).
• Design and own scalable data platform architecture (lake/Lakehouse/warehouse).
• Define and track dataset SLOs/SLAs (freshness, completeness, latency).
• Define and enforce data standards: modeling, layering, naming, metadata, contracts.

Requirements:

• 6+ years in data architecture, data engineering, and DataOps (production environments)
• Strong SQL experience
• Strong Python experience
• Experience building and maintaining production data pipelines
• Experience designing and operating cloud data platforms (AWS and/or Azure or equivalent)
• Experience with data lakes, Lakehouse, and/or data warehouses
• Experience with data modeling and layering
• Experience with data contracts and schema management
• Experience with data governance (ownership, PII handling, RBAC, retention, auditability)
• Experience with data quality controls and observability
• Experience with metadata and data lineage
• Experience with CI/CD practices for data systems
• Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform or equivalent)
• Experience with batch and streaming data processing
• Experience with at least one orchestration tool (Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar)
• Experience with at least one transformation tool (dbt or equivalent)
• Experience with at least one streaming system (Kafka, Kinesis, Event Hubs, Flink, or Spark Streaming)
• Experience with Lakehouse table formats (Delta, Iceberg, or Hudi)
• Experience with catalog and governance tools (Purview, Collibra, DataHub, Unity Catalog, or Alation)
• Experience with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, or Looker)
• Experience with data quality/observability tools (Great Expectations, Soda, or equivalent)
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized workloads

Qualities:

• Communicative and a positive attitude towards customers and colleagues
• Analytical skills, logical reasoning, and excellent problem-solving skills
• Sense of responsibility, autonomy, and resourcefulness
• Team player, organized, and strive for results and quality
• Creative with ideas to improve the product
• Ability to coordinate and handle more than one task at the same time
• Being proactive

Are you a social, flexible, and structured person with a great interest in information technology? Do you find development, constructing, and use of the latest technologies challenging? In that case – send your application to us today!

This position is open to Canadian residents (persons with work permit in Canada).

ELITS - Part of Accelerate at Iver