Senior Data Engineer (Toronto/ Montreal, Remote)

Position Overview

Autodesk's Entertainment & Media Solutions is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to join our Autodesk Flow team. As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll play a key role in the technical development of engineering and business workflows. Your work will enable our teams to apply data for decision-making and will help drive customer value. In this role, you'll help us transform business decisions and processes with actionable customer insights gained from meaningful research, analysis, experimentation and measurement of the customer experience. 

Responsibilities

• Improve team productivity through creating future state best practices for business analytics 

• Define, design, and implement AWS/BI technologies and services 

• Support strategic programs and ongoing business requirements through data analytics

• Create analytical reports and develop BI layer with resulting conclusions

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of related professional experience, with at least two years of experience with data modelling, including the design of schemas optimized for data retrieval 

• Proficient in SQL and data modeling for analytics and retrieval

• 3+ years experience in data visualization tools like Tableau, Looker, AWS Quicksight

• Programming skills in Python or Java

• Experience building data pipelines and working with large-scale data systems

• Hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, IAM)

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK)

Preferred Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related technical field

• Experience with data orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Temporal)

• Knowledge of big data technologies like Spark, Hive, or Presto

• Experience developing GraphQL, RESTful APIs and working with microservices

• Understanding of secure cloud architecture and CI/CD practices

• Experience developing data ingestion and processing pipelines, monitoring and self-healing systems

• Experience with AWS infrastructure as code solutions, such as CDK or Cloud Formation

• Experience working with Data Lake or Warehouses, ETLs

• Experience with data modeling, including the design of schemas optimized for data retrieval 

• Programming with SQL, Python, Spark, PySpark, Spark SQL, Java, Jinja, dbt and related languages and technologies 

• Experience with workflow management tools, like Airflow and Temporal 

• Experience designing and implementing GraphQL, RESTful APIs in Python

• Strong technical skills and interest in learning best of class technologies around data warehousing, data wrangling, data quality, data governance and data ethics 

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