Database Engineer
Hybrid · Toronto, Ontario, Canada or Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Job Summary
Lead design and integration of enterprise databases, ensuring privacy, normalization, and governance to support high availability and disaster recovery. Design, implement, and maintain robust data management systems; develop and manage ETL processes to extract data from source systems, transform it according to business rules, and load it into database tables. Establish data quality standards and procedures; develop roadmaps for version upgrades and releases; assess new technologies and their end-to-end impact. Hybrid remote role based out of Toronto or Surrey, with on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 production coverage. Familiarity with integrating systems such as Salesforce and banking platforms, and delivering reliable data pipelines to enable informed decision-making.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 5 years of job-related experience
- Completion of a Degree or Diploma Program (min two years of formal education or equivalent) preferably in Computer Science or related field
- Strong experience with Oracle (19c required, 23c nice-to-have)
- Solid experience with SQL Server as a secondary platform
- Proven experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS; Azure or GCP considered
- Expertise in database design, data modeling, and SQL scripting
- Deep knowledge of Oracle HA/DR, including Data Guard and GoldenGate
- Experience designing, implementing, and testing disaster recovery strategies
- Advanced database monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
- Strong SQL query optimization and stored procedure tuning
- Expertise in indexing (maintenance, statistics, usage analysis)
- Experience building data pipelines and ETL processes
- Exposure to SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS as secondary tools
- Proficiency in automation and scripting using PowerShell, Python, and SQL
- Exposure to MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
- Strong troubleshooting, risk assessment, and experience with change management processes
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