Data Engineer

LOCATION: Calgary, Alberta (CA-AB)
JOB NUMBER: 28716

Why you should join us:

Calling all Data Engineers who are passionate about using advanced analytics to generate business opportunities and solve complex problems! We are looking for you to design and implement systems that provide integrated, centralized, protected and maintained data sources for our data scientists, data analysts and business users. Working with multiple different data sets and complex enterprise systems you will advocate, evangelize, and build data-fueled products that provide business insights. You will deploy a variety of advanced analytics and predictive models, including machine learning, and its respective data pipeline through to delivery. Join our team and work with end-to-end applications that are cutting edge and high tech, including cognitive analytics, video and image recognition and drone imagery!

You will use your expertise to:

• Develop, construct and test the data pipelines and analytics architectures using Suncor’s technologies and systems to develop and make analytics models/applications/interfaces consumable for business users (advanced analytics model deployment)
• Write and set up complex queries, scale machines and clusters for computations, and other similar engineering foundation activities
• Become well-versed in Suncor’s standard analytics and visualization architecture, software, tools, and methodologies
• Build robust end-to-end data pipelines with a deep understanding of our data and which pipelines are business-centric
• Help with initial data exploration steps (e.g. binning, pivoting, summarizing and finding correlations)
• Assist with programming, modelling, data integration, task automation and script scheduling
• Catalog existing data sources and enable access to internal and external data sources
• Support data stewards to establish and enforce guidelines for data collection, integration and processes
• Provide operational insight into the development of standards, guidelines and best practices to continuously improve our data science initiatives

We’d like to review your application if you have…

Must-haves (minimum requirements):

• Three years of progressive experience in a quantitative field designing and implementing (including deploying and translating) big data systems and models
• A Bachelor’s degree or Masters in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering or a related technical field
• Experience working in a cloud platform (e.g. Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)
• Experience in Extract, Transform and Load processes (ETL), SQL databases, data warehousing solutions, data modeling and scripting languages
• Exceptional analytical and critical reasoning skills
• Proven communication and social skills
• Alignment with our values of: safety above all else, respect, raise the bar, commitments matter and do the right thing

Preference for:

• Familiarity with analytical tools and languages such as Matlab, Python, R, SPSS
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases

Where you’ll be working, your work schedule, and other meaningful information:

• You will work out of our Calgary head office, located in the Suncor Energy Centre at 150 – 6th Ave S.W.
• Hours of work are a regular 40-hour work week, Monday to Friday
• You work well in dynamic environments and under tight timelines
• We are currently recruiting for three Data Engineers SAP:IND

Why Suncor?

We are Canada's leading integrated energy company with a business portfolio that includes oil sands development and upgrading, offshore oil and gas production, petroleum refining, and product marketing under the Petro-Canada brand. Our global presence offers rewarding opportunities for you to learn, contribute, and grow in a variety of career-building positions. We live by the value of safety above all else – do it safely, or don’t do it. Our strong track record of growth and a focus on sustainability mean tremendous potential for the future. Learn about our mission, vision and values.

In addition to rewarding job opportunities, we offer an attractive employee package, including:

• Competitive base salary, compensation programs, and an annual incentive program
• Flexible benefits package
• Rewarding pension and savings plans

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We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage applications from all qualified individuals. We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive work environment where every employee feels valued and respected. We will consider accessibility accommodations to applicants upon request. Check out our social goal to learn how we are working to build greater mutual trust and respect with the Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

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JOB CATEGORY: Engineering