Senior Azure Data Engineer

Position Description:

Are you ready to join an inclusive high-performing culture that values innovation corporate social responsibility and the freedom to influence decisions and shape your career
CGI is more than an IT consulting companywere a team that supports local communities while drawing on global best-in-class talent. We are seeking a Senior Data Engineerto join our growing data practice and help clients deliver modern secure and scalable enterprise data solutions on Microsoft Azure.
CGI offers a share purchase program profit sharing wellness credits training and development programs and flexible work schedules and locations.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

. Design build and support enterprise-grade data platforms and pipelines that ingest transform and serve data from structured and unstructured sources at scale.
. Develop secure repeatable and highly performant ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure-native services and modern engineering practices.
. Build data transformation and orchestration workflows for batch and near real-time processing (event-driven patterns where required).
. Implement data ingestion across APIs SaaS applications databases and file-based sources.
. Apply strong data security controls to protect data in transit and at rest aligned with client and regulatory requirements.
. Develop data quality validation and reconciliation frameworks to ensure accuracy of key business metrics.
. Contribute to data governance practices including metadata management cataloging lineage and documentation.
. Collaborate with solution architects analysts and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical designs and delivery plans.
. Provide estimates and guidance on data gaps feasibility and level of effort; support delivery teams through implementation.
. Produce and maintain documentation including data dictionaries pipeline runbooks and operational support materials.
. Evaluate and recommend new tools and practices to improve reliability performance cost-efficiency and maintainability.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

. Strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure including services such as Azure Data Factory Azure Databricks Azure Synapse Analytics Azure Data Lake Storage (or equivalent Azure data platform components).
. Advanced SQL proficiency (data modeling query optimization complex transformations performance tuning).
. Strong Python proficiency for data engineering (pipeline development automation validation orchestration APIs).
. Experience building and operating data pipelines using modern DevOps practices (CI/CD Git workflows automated testing Infrastructure-as-Code exposure preferred).
. Strong understanding of data security principles and secure software development practices.

Additional Experience (Preferred)

. Experience with Spark (PySpark) streaming/event-driven architectures and messaging tools (e.g. Kafka Event Hubs).
. Familiarity with Snowflake and/or lakehouse patterns.
. Experience enabling analytics and reporting consumers (e.g. Power BI semantic models curated datasets).
. Experience working in regulated environments (financial services government healthcare) and supporting auditability requirements.

Key Attributes

. Strong ownership mindset; able to execute with minimal oversight and drive outcomes.
. Detail-oriented with strong organization and follow-through.
. Comfortable managing multiple priorities and deadlines in a client delivery environment.
. Clear confident communicator who can translate technical concepts into business-impact language.
. Passion for turning disparate data into trusted actionable insights.

Education

. Bachelors degree or diploma in mathematics informatics statistics computer science information systems or equivalent practical experience.

CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors including but not limited to skill set level geographic market experience and training and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $70000 - $140000.

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Use of the term engineering in this job posting refers to the technical sense related to Information Technology (IT) and does not imply that the individual practices engineering or possesses the requisite license as prescribed by the applicable provincial or territorial engineering regulator. We are seeking individuals with expertise in IT engineering-related functions but licensure from an engineering regulator is not a prerequisite for this position. Engineering is a regulated profession in Canada which is restricted in terms of use of titles and designation.

Skills:

• Azure Data Lake
• Data Engineering
• Data Migration
• Data Quality Management
• English
• ETL
• Python
• Snowflake
• SQL

What you can expect from us:

Together as owners lets turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership teamwork respect and belonging. Here youll reach your full potential because

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. Thats why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our companys strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. Youll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas embrace new opportunities and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

Youll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. Youll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

At CGI we value the strength that diversity brings and are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone belongs. We collaborate with our clients to build more inclusive communities and empower all CGI partners to thrive. As an equal-opportunity employer being able to perform your best during the recruitment process is important to us. If you require an accommodation please inform your recruiter.

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