
Analytics Developer, Data Engineering
Plusgrade
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Montreal • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AirflowAmazon RedshiftBigQueryCloudJavaPythonSQLTableauVault
About the role
- Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business questions into well-defined data models, metrics, and analytics products.
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, reusable, and governed data models using modern data stack tools (e.g., Cube, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift).
- Establish and maintain semantic layers and standardized metrics to drive consistency across dashboards, reports, and self-service analytics.
- Partner with Data Engineering to productionize data pipelines and ensure reliability, scalability, and performance.
- Implement robust data quality, testing, and monitoring frameworks to maintain trust in data.
- Drive adoption of best practices in data modeling, version control, CI/CD, and documentation.
- Create clear, compelling dashboards and reports that empower stakeholders to explore and act on data insights.
- Contribute to the organization’s data culture by coaching analysts, business partners, and product teams on effective data use.
- Support and troubleshoot production data workflows, ensuring availability, accuracy, and timeliness.
Requirements
- Strong expertise in SQL (analytical and performance-optimized queries) and data modeling techniques (star/snowflake schemas, Data Vault, dimensional modeling).
- Hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift).
- Experience with dbt or similar transformation frameworks to build modular, testable, and version-controlled data models.
- Familiarity with data orchestration and workflow tools (e.g., Airflow, Dagster).
- Proficiency with at least one programming language for data (Python preferred; familiarity with Java is a plus).
- Strong experience with BI/visualization tools such as Tableau or Looker, including semantic layer modeling.
- Working knowledge of DevOps practices (CI/CD, Git, testing, code review) applied to data workflows.
- Excellent communication skills: able to translate technical concepts into business terms and collaborate across teams.
- Curiosity and a growth mindset: a drive to learn, experiment, and continuously improve.
Benefits
- Retirement savings matching (RRSP / 401(k) / Pension Matching)
- Comprehensive health plans
- Flexible paid time off
- Travel experience credit
- Annual wellness credit
- Team events
- Home office / commuter credit
- Work From Anywhere program
- Parental leave top-up
- Adventure pass
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
SQLdata modelingstar schemasnowflake schemaData Vaultdimensional modelingdbtPythonTableauLooker
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationcuriositygrowth mindset