Data Engineering - Data Ingestion & Infrastructure

Location

Burnaby, BC, CA Toronto, ON, CA Calgary, AB, CA Vancouver, BC, CA Edmonton, AB, CA

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Req ID: 55107

Jobs by Category: Technology Solutions

Job Function: Engineering & Development

Status: Full Time

Schedule: Regular

Join our team and what we'll accomplish together

Data Foundation is the managed ingestion service for TELUS — the team that gets data into the platform, keeps it flowing, and guarantees its quality before anyone downstream feels a problem. We operate multiple deployments across TELUS, Health, Digital, and Agriculture under one operating model, and we own everything from source to trusted raw data.

In this role, you will design, develop, and support data pipelines and the platform they run on. You'll build ingestion flows, contribute to the onboarding tooling every team at TELUS uses to bring data into the platform, and play an active role in the SRE practice that keeps everything running. You'll work across greenfield deployments, legacy system migrations, and the standards that define how data moves across TELUS.

You'll also mentor junior team members and lead resolution of critical operational issues. This is a role for someone who takes ownership and brings others along.

What you will do

Pipeline & Ingestion Engineering

Design and build data extraction, ingestion, and pipeline flows across deployments (TELUS, Health, Digital, Agriculture), both cloud and on-prem where applicable

Implement data contracts at the ingestion layer ensuring data arrives, flows on schedule, and meets quality standards before it becomes available as raw data

Contribute to the inner-source codebase; participate in solution reviews and code reviews for pipelines contributed by Health, Digital, and other teams

Site Reliability & Data Quality

Develop test strategies and site reliability engineering measures for data pipelines and solutions, build automated assurance in, not manual checks after

Lead resolution of critical operations issues including post-implementation reviews and blameless post-mortems

Participate in on-call rotation

Onboarding Tooling & Standards

Build and maintain the self-serve onboarding tooling that source teams and business units use to bring new data sources into the platform

Perform application impact assessments, requirements reviews, and develop work estimates for onboarding requests

Contribute to the onboarding standard, ensuring it stays consistent and usable across all deployments

Platform & Infrastructure

Apply working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code to contribute to the shared GKE cluster and deployment pipelines

Participate in agile development scrums and solution reviews

Mentor L1 and L2 Data Engineering Specialists on the team

What you bring

4+ years of data engineering experience

2+ years working on data solution architecture and design

Intermediate proficiency in Python or Java, including pipeline development

SQL and database proficiency

Familiarity with quality assurance and site reliability engineering practices for data solutions

Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, or equivalent)

Data modeling experience

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field (or equivalent experience)

Great-to-haves

Data Engineering certification

Experience with Kafka or streaming data movement patterns

GCP and BigQuery experience

Familiarity with Kubernetes/GKE

Background in a regulated industry (healthcare, telecommunications) or compliance-driven data environments

Experience contributing to or maintaining a shared internal platform used by multiple teams

Salary Range: $70,000-$120,000

Performance Bonus or Sales Incentive Plan: 12%

Actual total compensation will be determined based on factors such as knowledge, skills, performance and experience. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply, even if the posted salary range doesn't match your expectations. We're open to discussing competitive compensation packages tailored to your experience level and expertise. TELUS offers rewarding benefits, which may vary per job function, such as:

Comprehensive total rewards package highlighting competitive salary and bonus structures, minimum 3 weeks of vacation, and flexible benefits plan to meet the needs of you and your family

Flexibility to work in-office, virtually or a combination of both, based on the role's requirements

Generous company matched pension and share purchase programs

Opportunity to give back to communities in which we work, live and serve

Career growth and learning & development opportunities to develop your skills

And much more …

Job Type: This is for a current vacancy

A bit about us

We’re a people-focused, customer-first, purpose-driven team who works together every day to innovate and do good. We improve lives through our technology solutions and foster a culture of innovation that empowers team members to solve complex problems and create remarkable human outcomes in a digital world.

You’ll find our engaging, high-performance culture personally fulfilling, professionally challenging, and financially rewarding. We’re committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability. Your unique contributions and talents will be valued and respected here. When you join our team, you’re helping us make the future friendly.

Note for Quebec candidates: if knowledge of English is required for this position, it is because the team member will be asked, on a regular basis, to interact in English with external or internal parties or to use English applications or software as part of their tasks.