Principal Java Data Engineer

PointClickCare

Job Location:

Mississauga - Canada

Monthly Salary: $ 156000 - 174000

Posted on: 6 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

At PointClickCare our mission is simple: to help providers deliver exceptional care. And that starts with our people. As a leading health tech company thats founder-led and privately held we empower our employees to push boundaries innovate and shape the future of healthcare.

With the largest long-term and post-acute care dataset and a Marketplace of 400 integrated partners our platform serves over 30000 provider organizations making a real difference in millions of lives. We also reinvest a significant percentage of our revenue back into research and development ensuring our employees have the resources to innovate and make a lasting by Forbes as a top private cloud company and honored as one of Canadas Most Admired Corporate Cultures we offer flexibility growth opportunities and meaningful work.

At PointClickCare we empower our people to be the architects of a smarter healthcare future; one that is human-first and accelerated by AI to create meaningful and lasting change. Employees harness AI as a catalyst for creativity productivity and thoughtful decision-making. By integrating AI tools into our daily workflows collaboration is enhanced outcomes are improved and every team member has the proficiency to maximize their impact. It all starts with our hiring practices where we uncover AI expertise that complements our mission and we continue to invest in training and development to nurture innovation throughout the employee journey.

Join us in redefining healthcare so it doesnt just survive it learn more about PointClickCare check out Life at PointClickCareand connect with us on Glassdoor and LinkedIn.

**Travel to Office expectations**

For Remote Roles: If this role is remote there will be in-office events that will require travel to and from the Mississauga and/or Salt Lake City office. These will include but not limited to onboarding team events semi-annual and annual team meetings.

For Hybrid Roles: If this role is Hybrid there will be an expectation to reside within commutable distance to the office/location specified in the job listing. This will include but not limited to weekly/bi-weekly/monthly events in the office with your specific team. This is a requirement for this role.

PointClickCare is searching for a Principal Software Data Engineer who will contribute to all phases of the software development life cycle and will play a crucial role in designing developing and maintaining large scale Data Platform and data pipelines based on microservices architecture while also encouraging and optimizing the daily execution of technical excellence across an empowered team.

This is a hands-on leadership role requiring the ability to enhance and implement batch and real-time data solutions already in progress mentor other team members and deliver both business and technical objectives through ambiguity and uncertainty.

This is an opportunity to shape the future of our data ecosystem. Youll work with a passionate team and modern technologies to drive innovation that impacts the entire organization. The ideal candidate thrives as an individual contributor while making a significant technical impact and elevating the teams capabilities.

To succeed as a Principal Software Data Engineer at PointClickCare you need to be collaborative adventurous and passionate. Collaborative means that youre enthusiastic about jumping in to help achieve the teams top priorities no self-promoting politicians allowed. Adventurous means that youre not afraid to dive into uncharted technical territory and get your own hands dirty while supporting and driving delivery of complex features through a dedicated Scrum team. Passionate means that youre eager to learn and share knowledge that drives the team forward and excited to be part of a movement that is positively impacting the lives of seniors and their caregivers all over North America.

What your day-to-day will look like:

-Lead and guide the design and implementation of scalable distributed systems based on Java microservices

-Engineer and optimize data pipelines using solutions like Apache Hudi Apache Trino Azure ADLS

-Collaborate cross-functionally with product analytics and AI teams to ensure data is a strategic asset

-Advance ongoing modernization efforts deepening adoption of event-driven architectures and cloud-native technologies

-Drive adoption of best practices in data governance observability and performance tuning for data workloads

-Embed data quality in processing pipelines by defining schema contracts implementing transformation tests and data assertions enforcing backward-compatible schema evolution and automating checks for freshness completeness and accuracy across batch and streaming paths before production deployment

-Establish robust observability for data pipelines by implementing metrics logging and distributed tracing for streaming jobs defining SLAs and SLOs for latency and throughput and integrating alerting and dashboards to enable proactive monitoring and rapid incident response

-Foster a culture of quality through peer reviews providing constructive feedback and seeking input on your own work

What qualifications were looking for:

-Principal Software Data Engineer with at least 10 years of professional experience in software or data engineering including a minimum of 4 years focused on data pipelines (batch and streaming)

-Proven experience driving technical direction and mentoring engineers while delivering complex high-scale solutions as a hands-on contributor

-Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and distributed systems with hands-on experience implementing resilient low-latency pipelines

-Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP) and containerized deployments for data workloads

-Fluency in data quality practices and CI/CD integration including schema management automated testing and validation frameworks (e.g. dbt Great Expectations)

-Operational excellence in observability with experience implementing metrics logging tracing and alerting for data pipelines using modern tools

-Solid foundation in data governance and performance optimization ensuring reliability and scalability across batch and streaming environments

-Proven experience with Lakehouse architectures and related technologies including Apache Hudi Azure ADLS Gen2 HDFS and other big data technologies (Trino Databricks Spark)

-Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and evangelize modern data practices within your team and organization.

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$156000 - $174000 a year

At PointClickCare base salary is one of the many components that make up our total rewards package. The CAD base salary range for this position is $156000-$174000 bonus benefits. Compensation is assessed individually and aligned to experience skills and market context. The posted range reflects typical expectations for this role.

PointClickCare Benefits & Perks:

Benefits starting from Day 1!

Retirement Plan Matching

Flexible Paid Time Off

Wellness Support Programs and Resources

Parental & Caregiver Leaves

Fertility & Adoption Support

Continuous Development Support Program

Employee Assistance Program

Allyship and Inclusion Communities

Employee Recognition and more!

It is the policy of PointClickCare to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race religion national origin status age sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital or domestic/civil partnership status disability veteran status genetic information or any other basis protected by law. PointClickCare welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please contact emailprotected should you require any accommodations. As part of our commitment to a streamlined and equitable hiring experience PointClickCare uses AI tools to assist with candidate screening and assessment.

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