Sr. Data Engineer, Triangle Retail Media

What You'll Do

Are you looking for a career defining opportunity to work for one of the fastest-growing Retail Media Networks in Canada? You’ve arrived at just the right place!The Senior Data Engineer,Triangle Retail Media (TRM), will be responsible for building a best-in-class ad tech and measurement solution that will allow internal and external users to create, manage and report on TRM advertising campaigns. TRM is Canadian Tire Corporation’s (CTC) rapidly scaling Retail Media Network Business across banners. Investing behind this business and scaling it over the next five years is a top strategic priority for CTC. As a member of the TRM team, you will work alongside groups of industry experts in a highly agile, entrepreneurial, and exciting environment. You will make an impact by:

• Helping TRM to be a hypotheses-driven product development organization with data in the center of everything, and working with internal TRM and Canadian Tire stakeholders to develop solutions that support various data users and consumers
• Using appropriate tools to efficiently collect, clean, and prepare large volumes of data for analysis and modelingto uncover patterns or issues
• Writing robust and efficient queries to transform raw data sources into easily accessible datasets by coding across several languages such as Python, and SQL
• Analyzing and profiling data to support data discovery activities across a wide range of sources (internal, external, online, offline), data structures (structured, JSON, XML, etc.) and TRM business operations
• Helping in automating reporting pipelines, and building real-time dashboards
• Designing, developing, testing, deploying, maintaining, and optimizing both batch and streaming data pipelines to meet business use case requirements for reporting, BI, analytics, ML/AI models and other applications
• Automating data pipelines to continuously supply data analysts and data scientists with reliable, efficient foundations for data product development
• Building testing and data validations strategies to ensure quality control and data integrity
• Leveraging expertise in analytical tools and statistical models to create a system for data science translation into business terms, and deriving a story and strategy from data as needed
• Partnering cross functionally with other analysts, data scientists, and data engineers to refine data requirements, document business rules, build and maintain data pipelines, processes, and reporting solutions/visualizations to help enhance data narratives
• Adapting to ongoing product and technology developments and identifying opportunities for growth and development, as it relates to the needs of the retail media network industry
  
  

What You Bring

• Post-secondary education in computer science / math/ analytics or a related quantitative discipline
• 5+ years industry experience in data engineering, software development or related role. Media house, publisher, ad network, or retail media network experience is an asset
• Proficiency and advanced level programming in PySpark and SQL
• 3+ years working with big data platforms (Hadoop, Hive, Azure/ADLS, GCP/BigQuery, Snowflake, NoSQL, etc.); Snowflake experience highly desirable
• Working knowledge of traditional RDBMS (e.g., Netezza, Oracle)
• Significant experience in data analysis, modeling, and ETL/ELT development in a big data environment
• Working experience with CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket/Git, Jenkins, Artifactory), ETL tools (e.g., Diyotta, DataStage, etc.) and data streaming (Kafka, NiFi, Event Hubs, etc.)
• Demonstrated strategic and analytical reporting approach, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and manage multiple priorities
• Exceptional interpersonal skills; equally comfortable and effective communicating with users, other technical teams, and business leaders
• Experience working in an agile environment
  
  

Hybrid

We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.

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.

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.