Full-time

Data Engineer - Minimum 12+ years experience (Kitchener)

Posted by NLB Services • June 08, 2026

📍 kitchener, region of waterloo, Canada
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Description

Lead the migration from Glue/Redshift to Databricks

10+ years of professional data engineering experience, with at least 2+ years in a tech-lead or lead engineer capacity.

5-6 years of experience in each of the following areas:

  • Deep, hands‑on experience with Apache Spark (PySpark and Spark SQL), including performance tuning (partitioning, shuffles, skew, caching, file sizing).
  • Hands‑on production experience with Databricks — Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows, and either Delta Live Tables or a comparable declarative pipeline framework.
  • Strong production experience with AWS Glue (jobs, crawlers, Data Catalog, triggers) and Amazon Redshift (including Redshift Spectrum, workload management, distribution and sort keys, performance tuning, and Redshift SQL / stored procedures).
  • Proven experience leading at least one substantial data platform migration or re‑platforming effort end‑to‑end.
  • Expert SQL skills and strong s...

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