Senior Associate Data Engineering – Azure, Databricks

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About the role

  • Senior Associate Data Engineer building Azure and Databricks pipelines for Publicis Sapient’s digital transformation clients. Supporting AI-enabled data services, retrieval systems, and scalable cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with clients to turn complex ideas into end-to-end data solutions
  • Translate client requirements into system designs and develop solutions delivering measurable business value
  • Lead, design, develop, and deliver large-scale data systems, data processing, data transformation, and data platform modernization initiatives
  • Build and optimize batch and streaming data pipelines across modern cloud data platforms and distributed processing frameworks
  • Design data foundations, retrieval patterns, context engineering approaches, and scalable data services supporting agentic and machine learning solutions
  • Automate data platform operations and manage post-production systems, observability, quality, reliability, and operational processes
  • Build telemetry pipelines capturing prompt, response, trace, latency, token, and cost data for AI-enabled services in queryable form
  • Conduct technical feasibility assessments and provide project estimates
  • Mentor, support, and grow junior team members while contributing hands-on to delivery

Requirements

  • Demonstrable experience implementing end-to-end data pipelines and production-grade data platforms
  • Hands-on experience with at least one leading public cloud data platform: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
  • Hands-on experience with Azure Cloud Services, including Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Azure Functions, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure Databricks
  • Experience with Databricks as a data engineering platform, including notebooks, jobs, Delta Lake, or similar lakehouse patterns
  • Strong Python proficiency and practical experience using Python-based tooling for data engineering, automation, platform development, or AI engineering workflows
  • In-depth knowledge of Scala, Apache Spark, PySpark, Python, Java, and shell scripting
  • Experience with column-oriented, NoSQL, and traditional database technologies
  • Experience implementing streaming and batch data pipelines using Glue ETL, Lambda, Google Cloud Dataflow, Azure Data Factory, Spark, Spark Streaming, or similar technologies
  • Proficiency using Apache Airflow to orchestrate complex data workflows
  • Experience with data modeling, warehouse design, fact/dimension implementations, and modern lakehouse or data mesh patterns
  • Experience with code repositories, continuous integration, automated testing, release management, and production support practices
  • Familiarity with MLOps concepts and AI/ML deployment, validation, monitoring, rollback, and operational reliability
  • Ability to handle module or track-level responsibilities while contributing hands-on
  • Good communication skills and willingness to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team
  • Exposure to AI engineering patterns, context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, agent architectures, and production data services
  • Experience building pipelines for retrieval systems, including document parsing, chunking, metadata extraction, embedding generation, incremental reindexing, vector databases, graph databases, semantic search, and knowledge retrieval
  • Exposure to agentic platforms or cloud AI services such as Vertex AI, Azure AI services, or AWS AI services
  • Experience building evaluation data infrastructure for AI systems, including ground-truth and golden datasets, offline evaluation pipelines, LLM-as-judge, and regression testing
  • Experience modeling and persisting agent state, session context, conversation history, and memory stores
  • Developer certifications for AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, or related platforms are advantageous
  • Experience applying AI engineering concepts in practical business environments
  • Hands-on experience supporting AI/ML and LLM lifecycle needs
  • Experience in retail, financial services, energy, CPG, logistics, manufacturing, or other data-rich industries
  • Good understanding of capital markets domain requirements, particularly FINRA compliance
  • Understanding of Agile, product, and delivery methodologies in consulting or client-facing environments

Benefits

  • Ongoing learning and development opportunities
  • Competitive compensation and benefits package
  • Flexibility to support work-life balance
  • Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family
  • Generous paid leave and holidays
  • Wellness program and employee assistance
  • Inclusive workplace promoting diversity and collaboration
  • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$115,000 - CA$160,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AirflowApacheAWSAzureCloudETLGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesNoSQLPySparkPythonScalaShell ScriptingSnowflakeSpark

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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