Data Platform Developer
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Pay Rate: $80.00/hour, depending on experience
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Contract Length: 6 Months
- Location: Calgary, Alberta (Remote, anywhere in Canada working Mountain Time business hours)
Raise is currently hiring a Data Platform Developer on behalf of our client. They’re expanding their team to meet growing needs, making this a unique opportunity to work with an industry leader. Our Client is a market leading financial institution
Note: The primary pay rate is based on T4 classification; however, we will also consider applications from candidates interested in an INC classification, where applicable.
Description
As a Data Platform Developer on the DEEP Sustainment team, you will play a critical role in supporting, enhancing, and maintaining our clientsenterprise GCP Data Analytics platform. Your work will directly enable and empower data analyst and AI communities by ensuring a robust, scalable, and modern data infrastructure. In this role, you will focus on system maintenance, upgrades, feature enablement, troubleshooting complex processing issues, and driving continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) enhancements. Collaborative in nature, this position works closely with the Data Operations team to streamline processes and elevate our platform capabilities.
Responsibilities
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Platform Sustainment & Feature Enablement: Maintain, upgrade, and enhance the GCP Data Platform. Enable new features across key services (including BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Airflow, Cloud Storage, Dataplex, and Collibra) to support downstream AI and analytics initiatives.
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Operations & Troubleshooting: Provide tier-3 support to troubleshoot and resolve data processing issues, platform bottlenecks, and system failures in a timely manner.
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CI/CD & DevOps Automation: Design, build, and optimize CI/CD pipelines within GitLab to automate deployment processes, manage infrastructure as code (IaC), and streamline promotion releases.
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Process Optimization: Partner closely with the Data Operations team to identify operational bottlenecks, automate repetitive tasks, and implement robust monitoring and alerting frameworks.
Data Governance & Metadata Integration: Assist in the maintenance and integration of Dataplex and Collibra to ensure high data quality, data lineage, and robust governance across the platform.
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Qualifications
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5 years of professional experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or a highly relevant cloud DevOps role.
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Proven track record of supporting and maintaining enterprise-level cloud data platforms.
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Experience with orchestration tools (specifically Apache Airflow / Cloud Composer) and stream/batch processing frameworks (such as Apache Beam / Dataflow).
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Experience implementing or working with data governance and cataloging tools (e.g., Collibra, GCP Dataplex) is highly desirable.
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Top Required Skills
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Python: Strong proficiency in writing clean, efficient, and production-grade Python code for data pipelines and automation.
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SQL: Advanced SQL capabilities for querying, data manipulation, and optimization within cloud data warehouses.
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GitLab: Deep hands-on experience managing repositories, branching strategies, and building complex CI/CD pipelines.
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GCP Technical Knowledge: Strong foundational and operational knowledge of the Google Cloud Platform ecosystem (specifically BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and IAM).
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Education and Certifications
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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related quantitative field (or equivalent practical experience).
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Preferred Certifications (Assets):
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GCP Professional Data Engineer
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GCP Professional Cloud Architect
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GitLab Certified Associate/Professional
Additional Information
A requirement for candidates to be considered for this role will be to complete a criminal and credit check (including Canadian Credit Risk Score)
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