Data Engineer
Saskatoon, SK

Are you passionate about building scalable data solutions that drive business impact? Do you thrive on designing robust ELT pipelines and ensuring the integrity of data systems? Vendasta is looking for a Data Engineer to join our team and help shape the future of our data infrastructure.”

About the Job
As a Data Engineer at Vendasta, you’ll be at the forefront of our data strategy, designing and maintaining scalable data pipelines to support our Business Intelligence (BI) and organizational goals. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, advocate for best practices, and ensure that our data architecture is robust, reliable, and ready to scale as our business grows.

Your Impact
As a Data Engineer, you will:

• Develop Scalable Data Solutions: Design, implement, and maintain ELT pipelines within a Kimball Architecture data warehouse, ensuring scalability and robustness against failures and data errors.
• Support Business Intelligence: Manage historical and hierarchical data structures to ensure usability for BI teams and scalability for future growth.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with BI teams and source system owners to prioritize and deliver data solutions, extract and clean source data, and integrate it into the data warehouse.
• Advocate for Data Integrity: Influence improvements in source data integrity and ensure proper governance, lineage tracking, and quality assurance.
• Optimize Cloud Infrastructure: Collaborate with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams to optimize resource usage within a cloud environment.
• Operate Within Agile Frameworks: Contribute to team backlogs using Agile methodologies such as Kanban or Scrum, balancing short-term deliverables with long-term technical investments.

What You Bring to the Table

Must-Haves:

• 3-5+ years of experience in ETL, SQL, and cloud-based platforms like Google Cloud (BigQuery, DBT, Looker).
• Strong understanding of Kimball data warehousing principles, including the 34 subsystems of ETL.
• Problem-solving skills to diagnose and resolve data quality issues effectively.
• Ability to engage with BI teams and source system owners to deliver prioritized data solutions.
• Eagerness to advocate for data integrity improvements while adhering to data mesh principles.
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure to optimize resource management in collaboration with SRE teams.
• Ability to balance immediate needs with long-term technical investments.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Familiarity with data governance frameworks and lineage tracking tools.
• Experience working within Agile frameworks and contributing to team backlogs.

About Vendasta
We help businesses get more customers. And keep them. Vendasta is an AI-powered customer acquisition and engagement platform built for SMBs and the partners who support them, providing the tools needed to attract, engage, and retain customers, increasing lifetime value and building loyalty. From creating awareness to nurturing lasting customer relationships, Vendasta offers a suite of solutions with AI assistants that streamline every stage of the customer journey. By combining a business's unique data with AI and automation, Vendasta simplifies marketing, sales, and operations, eliminating the need for multiple disjointed systems.

Perks
Join the Vendasta team, where your happiness and health are our top priorities! Dive into a world where competitive health benefits meet flexibility with flex time and an annual work-from-anywhere policy. Embrace the opportunity to grow with us through our Employee Options Program and savour every bite in our cafeteria, delighting in daily snacks, and unwinding with catered Friday lunches at our offices. Fuel your ambition with education reimbursement, in-house learning, and an array of leadership development programs, all nestled within a culture brimming with Drive, Innovation, Respect, and Agility. Engage your heart in community events and volunteer opportunities. At Vendasta, we're not just offering a job; we're inviting you to build a thriving career in an environment that champions your growth and well-being. Let's soar together!

Please apply on our company website by Monday, February 3rd.