Robots and Pencils is hiringPrincipal Data Engineer

WE EMBRACE A TALENT-LED CULTURE

Our work is driven by our team’s desire to be pioneers.

In 2009, we created Robots & Pencils with the then-contrarian view that mobile would be more transformative than the Internet. Turns out we were right.

Today, our thinking is rooted in the belief that, in the age of unprecedented technology acceleration, maintaining a competitive advantage requires new strategies and a focus on innovation.

Our approach has been to create a company designed to follow the talent, allowing us to amass an unfair share of hyper-skilled people who call Robots & Pencils home. A team of people who not only develop innovative solutions to transform businesses, but also create products that have been previously inconceivable.

Our Core Values:

• Strong Work Ethic
• Top Drawer
• Always Learning
• Heart
• Discipline
• Efficacy
• Together

Robots & Pencils Offers:

We care about Talent. Hard stop.

We do this in many ways, by offering:

• An attractive compensation package

• A fast paced environment with a culture that embraces change, and working together to find a far better way

• Work remotely, or in an office: you can reside anywhere in North America, and work remotely. You also have the option to work in our offices if you live in an area where we have a local office.

• High quality talent: we hire only the best talent we can find. You do remarkable things and solve tough problems where many others have failed before.

• Excellent benefits Medical, Dental, Vision etc. (this routinely gets reviewed each year for enhancements)

• Paid stat/federal holidays, vacation and sick days

• Flexible paid stat/federal holidays (because we care about what you care about and want to celebrate our culturally diverse team!)

• R&P branded swag

• Parental & adoption leave top up / salary continuance

• 401K/RRSP matching

But we also know a job isn’t just defined by the above, so we pride ourselves in being a company that also offers: 

• A #FollowTheTalent mentality -- meaning you can be located anywhere in North America and work remotely. (We have 10+ years of experience building virtual working environments #WeKnowWhatWereDoing)

• A dynamic, fast-paced environment where we’re constantly #alwayslearning.

• And lastly, a team that cares about you and wants to drive the talent experience. How do we do this? Over the years we’ve hosted comedian shows, had holiday parties, happy hours, brunches with the CEO, surprise coffee runs for the team, health & wellness events and prizes, trivia nights, surprise dinners for R&P team members and their family and so much more! (And yes, we’ve prioritized a way to do these things in a virtual setting and not just in person - thank you Zoom!)
  
  
  Skills 
  

  As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a critical role in implementing a variety of solutions to ingest, process and provision data to/from a Data Lake. The Data Lake enables data capabilities in reporting, analytics and allowing scientists to explore data in automated and self-service models.

  As a technical contributor, you will take ownership of development for processing and analyzing data across the data platform.
  
  We are looking for someone who will:

  
  

  -  Design, build and maintain data pipelines to process data into and out of the Data Lake

  -  Work with AWS big data technologies including EMR, Glue, S3, EKS, Lambda, Athena, RDS

  -  Develop and maintain the data strategy in terms of capabilities and control mechanisms that support company responsibilities as a regulated national bank

  -  Provide technical leadership in the area of data systems development including data ingestion, data curation, data storage, high-throughput data processing and analytics

  -  Work with business partners on requirements, clarification and results

  -  Participate in developing and enforcing data security & access control policies

  -  Develop effective controls for a resilient data ingestion process

  -  Support application data integration design and build efforts, including real-time capabilities

  -  Conduct code reviews in accordance with team processes and standards
  
  Qualifications:

  • Over 10 years of experience 
  • 7-10 years demonstrated ability in a Data Engineering role.
  • 4-5 years prior experience working in Web Development
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to share insights and expectations with clients, stakeholders and colleagues, both locally and remotely.