Data Engineer

Job Title: Data Engineer

Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite)

Estimated Duration: Fulltime

About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

We are seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join our team. The Data Engineer will play a critical role on the CTC Triangle Data Science team, reporting into the Loyalty Engineering manager. Leveraging the latest data technologies and advanced analytical techniques, this team designs, develops, and automates customer-facing data products and services. Made up of data scientists, engineers, developers and analysts, the team is laser-focused on creating a portfolio of best-in-class products and services that fuel customer-focused analytics and enhance customer and brand experience.
 
Job Description
Data is your strong suit. You are technically minded, detail-oriented and keep updated on automation trends. You communicate effectively to different audiences, and you can build strong cross-functional partnerships to drive collaboration and innovation. In this role, you will:
 

• Understand the business case for data and the stakeholders’ requirements to support work processes and strategic business objectives
• Develop and optimize existing and new data products
• Design and implement data pipelines to monitor, validate model assumptions and performance adhering to best-in-class coding standards
• Develop and optimize existing and new data pipelines to standardize and automate
• Identify and troubleshoot technical issues as they arise with an entrepreneurial mindset, and provide scalable resolution with follow-through
• Work on ad-hoc projects that leverage multiple internal and external sources of data such as sales, inventory, cost, digital analytics, loyalty, driving patterns, etc.
• Work with IT and business stakeholders to influence decision making with data and data products

 
Skills and qualifications:

• B.S. in Engineering, Science, Mathematics, Statistics or Computer Science. Equivalent experience also considered.
• 1+ years of professional work experience or internship in data domain
• Strong knowledge of SQL to perform complex data analysis
• Strong command of statistics
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical analytical specifications
• Balance of technical and business acumen, including modeling and strategic business case development

 
Bonus points if you have experience with:

• Python or another language to transform and process data
• Data intelligence and visualization platforms such as Looker, Google Data Studio, Tableau or other tools
• Data technologies and analytics platforms such as Knime, Hadoop, Azure, GCP, Big Query, Power BI, Data Studio, Airflow, Snowflake, etc.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.
 
Accommodations 
We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.