Senior Data Engineer, AI & Agents
Appnovation Technologies2 months ago
Toronto, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and register domain data agents over governed tables in Databricks and Snowflake.
- Perform lakehouse migrations and convert source tables to open formats such as Apache Iceberg.
- Generate and curate catalogue metadata for downstream automation and data-contract workflows.
- Onboard new commercial, finance, research and development, and real-world data domains to the enterprise data platform.
- Implement data quality, observability, lineage, masking, and row- and column-level governance controls.
- Partner with business stakeholders and subject-matter experts through iterative build, test, and validation cycles.
- Translate business requirements into delivered data assets.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of professional data engineering experience.
- Hands-on fluency with Databricks and Snowflake and experience with modern data warehousing and lakehouse platforms.
- Experience building data agents or query interfaces over governed datasets, such as Snowflake Cortex or Genie.
- Advanced SQL and Spark/PySpark skills.
- Experience with dbt, Apache Airflow, or Databricks Workflows for pipeline orchestration.
- Experience implementing data quality, observability, lineage, masking, and row- and column-level security.
- Strong stakeholder-facing skills and experience translating business requirements into data assets.
- Preferred familiarity with MCP-based data exposure, embeddings, vector search, AWS, S3, and regulated life-sciences data domains.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model.
- Challenging work with real-world impact and exposure to high-profile clients.
- Direct access to cutting-edge AI platforms.
- Growth opportunities for personal and professional development.
- Diverse, inclusive, collaborative, and innovative work environment.
- Supportive environment with access to company leaders.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Appnovation Technologies
Appnovation Technologies is a privately held digital consultancy that designs, builds, and supports customer-facing platforms for enterprises, combining strategy, UX, engineering, and managed services. Its teams deliver web and mobile development, Drupal and open-source implementations, Atlassian consulting, and data/AI-enabled solutions for large organizations. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Vancouver, it serves global clients including Pfizer, Google, Yeti, TCL, and AstraZeneca.