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Hays

Staff Data Engineer

Hybrid

Toronto, Canada

Senior

Freelance

11-11-2025

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Skills

Python Java Scala SQL Data Governance Data Engineering GCP Snowflake Databricks

Job Specifications

Staff Data Engineer

Leader Level (Manager/Sr Manager)

HM - Colin Barber

6 month contract

GTA Onsite 1 day a Week

Interview process - 1 round (1.5 hours, behavioural + tech)

10+ years of experience in Data & BI
Combined DE and BI role, Senior Data leader that can influence
BI: data governance, dashboards, and looking for more of a Data Architect
Data lakes, data lakehouse
Someone that straddles between DE and BI
Talks with the stakeholders so strong comms a must
Tech stack: GCP or any cloud, Big query
BI stack: data catalog, quality, security/privacy, data modeling/curation
Looker, Data flow through Scala
Building custom data engineering solutions
BI but not lowcode, need someone technical and hands on
Python, Java, SQL
Snowflake good to have (no Databricks)

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