Data Engineer | Onsite | Canada | CAD Salary

About client:

A global IT and consulting company based in Bangalore, India providing IT services to clients worldwide across multiple industries.

Opening: Data Engineer

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Data Pipelines: Build ETL flows for structured/unstructured data, ensuring normalization, deduplication, and semantic consistency.


• Vector Infrastructure: Manage pgvector, Azure AI Search, Redis vector indexing, and hybrid search layers.


• Data Governance: Implement zero-trust access, privacy controls, and compliance within AI context pipelines.


• Real-time Processing: Build event-driven architectures that continuously refresh embeddings and indexes.

Required Qualifications:

• Deep experience with distributed data systems, SQL, and orchestration tools.


• Experience tuning high-throughput database infrastructure.


• Knowledge of Google's GECX is a plus.


• Familiarity with chunking strategies and embedding models.

Experience Required:

5 years to 7+ years

Skillset Requirements:

• ETL & Data Modeling: Designing pipelines for structured/unstructured data, normalization, deduplication, and semantic consistency.


• Vector Databases: pgvector, Redis, Azure AI Search, hybrid search, and index optimization.


• Distributed Data Systems: Kafka, Spark, Flink, or similar event- driven architectures.


• Data Governance: Zero-trust access, privacy controls, compliance, and auditability.


• Real-time Embedding Updates: Event-driven refresh pipelines for RAG and agent memory systems.


• Chunking & Embeddings: Semantic chunking, metadata tagging, and embedding model selection.


• Search Infrastructure: BM25, hybrid search, inverted indexes, and ranking algorithms.


• Performance Tuning: High-throughput read/write optimization.


• Data Quality & Lineage: Validation, schema enforcement, and lineage tracking (e.g., Great Expectations, OpenLineage).

Other Details:

Experience : 5-7 years

Work Timings: 9am-6pm

Work Days: Monday- Friday

Work Mode: Onsite

Location: Brampton, Ontario, Canada