NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward‑thinking organization, apply now. We are currently seeking a Data Engineer to join our team in Halifax, Nova Scotia (CA‑NS), Canada (CA).

Day to Day Job Duties

Cloud Data Warehousing & Engineering

Design, develop, and maintain enterprise cloud data warehouse solutions supporting business, risk, finance, and regulatory reporting needs.

Build scalable and resilient data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines using cloud‑native technologies.

Develop and optimize ETL/ELT frameworks for structured, semi‑structured, and streaming datasets.

Enable enterprise reporting and analytics by delivering curated, governed, and trusted datasets.

Data Pipeline Development

Design and implement batch and near real‑time data pipelines.

Build reusable ingestion frameworks for multiple source systems including:

Trading platforms

Risk systems

Treasury and finance applications

Core banking systems

Market and reference data platforms

Implement metadata‑driven and configurable pipeline architectures.

Data Modeling & Warehousing

Design and implement dimensional models, star schemas, snowflake schemas, and curated data marts.

Support enterprise data warehouse optimization, partitioning, clustering, and performance tuning.

Build semantic and consumption‑ready datasets for downstream analytics and reporting.

Cloud Platform Engineering

Develop solutions leveraging cloud‑native platforms such as:

AWS / Azure / GCP





Snowflake / Databricks

Cloud storage and compute services

Implement scalable processing frameworks and distributed compute patterns.

Data Quality, Governance & Security

Implement data quality checks, reconciliation controls, lineage, and observability frameworks.

Ensure compliance with banking regulatory, security, and governance requirements.

Support enterprise metadata management and lineage tracking.

Apply secure access models and data masking standards for sensitive financial data.

Performance Optimization

Optimize warehouse performance, compute utilization, and storage costs.

Improve query performance, data refresh SLAs, and pipeline reliability.

Implement partitioning, indexing, clustering, and workload optimization techniques.

DevOps & Automation

Build CI/CD pipelines for data engineering deployments.

Automate testing, deployment, monitoring, and operational support processes.

Basic Qualifications

6-10 years of overall experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or cloud data platform development.

6 Years of Strong hands‑on experience in:

SQL (advanced)

Python / Spark / Scala

ETL/ELT frameworks

Data modeling and warehousing concepts





6 Years of Experience with at least one major cloud data platform:

Snowflake

Databricks

6 Years of Experience building enterprise‑scale data pipelines and ingestion frameworks.

Strong understanding of data warehouse architecture patterns.

6 Years of Languages & Processing: SQL, Python, PySpark, Scala

6 Years of Cloud & Warehousing: AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, Synapse

6 Years of Data Engineering Tools: Airflow, dbt, Kafka, Informatica, Talend

6 Years of DevOps & Automation: Git, CI/CD, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes

6 Years of Data Governance: Lineage, Metadata, Data Quality, Data Reconciliation

Travel: Hybrid Position in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada (3 days in NTT DATA office)

Degree: Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent work experience

Nice to Have

Solid expertise in cloud data platforms, ETL/ELT engineering, data modeling, and enterprise data integration, with experience working in regulated financial services environments.

Experience in Banking / Financial Services / Capital Markets.

Experience with:

Airflow / Control‑M / cloud orchestration

Kafka or streaming platforms

Terraform / CloudFormation

GitHub Actions / Jenkins / CI‑CD tools

Exposure to lakehouse and modern data mesh architectures.

NTT DATA is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

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📌 Data Engineer (Nova Scotia)
🏢 NTT DATA North America
📍 Nova Scotia