
Senior Data Engineer – Data Governance Lead
Xsolla
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Canada
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Salary
💰 CA$120,000 - CA$170,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- This role will assign the data engineering efforts for the **Uer Platform (CDP)** and **Recommendation Engine**, ensuring data accuracy, performance, data alignment and security across pipelines connecting **Snowflake, Postgres, Kafka, and API Gateway** services.
- You’ll collaborate with ML engineers, backend teams, and business stakeholders to build reliable, high-performance data systems that support insights, automation, and machine learning use cases
- This role will lead the data governance best practices and communication cross the organization.
Requirements
- 3-8 years of experience in Data Engineering, with **data governance responsibilities **.
- SQL and Python skills, with proven experience building **ETL/ELT** at scale.
- Understanding of **Snowflake performance tuning**, **query optimization**, and **warehouse orchestration**.
- Understanding of **data modeling** (Kimball, Data Vault, or hybrid).
- Familiarity with **API-based data integration** and **microservice architectures**.
- Excellent cross-functional communication — can translate between engineering and business.
- Hands-on problem solver who balances velocity with reliability.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLPythonETLELTSnowflake performance tuningquery optimizationwarehouse orchestrationdata modelingAPI-based data integrationmicroservice architectures
Soft Skills
cross-functional communicationproblem solving