Come join Pattison Food Group Ltd., a Jim Pattison business, and Canada’s largest Western-based provider of food and health products. Pattison Food Group Ltd. consists of Save-On-Foods and other well-known grocery banners. With nearly 300 retail locations, we proudly employ more than 30,000 team members. We have an exciting opportunity for a full time Data Engineer to join our IT team in Langley, BC. Reporting to the Manager, Data & Analytics, you will be responsible for working with one of the largest, most comprehensive datasets in Canada while delivering and pioneering solutions that will disrupt the retail industry using the latest tools and technologies.
Responsibilities Designing and constructing high-performance, scalable data pipelines to operationalize our state-of-the-art solutions ranging from quantum computing pipelines to deep learning based recommender systems
Creating innovative solutions to tackle computationally intensive challenges and business issues
Writing production Python/Scala scripts in a Spark/Databricks environment to support the data pipelines that feed Machine Learning models
Leveraging cloud environments and following best practices while building solutions in the data lake as it evolves to meet the needs of the business
Performing data wrangling, feature engineering, and dimension reduction with data of all shapes and sizes, from parquet files to images
Partnering with Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists, and Cloud Architects to deliver models into production
Coaching, mentoring, and providing feedback to team members and junior data engineers
Discovering novel datasets and data sources and making them available for modeling and reporting




Using your expertise in big data technologies to champion innovation, design, and implement data-stores and analytic models, oversee large-scale data lake platforms, and design and implement efficient data pipelines from source systems to data-stores
Defining and implementing Quality Assurance best practices that support the implementation of data transformations and the availability of high-quality data.
Qualifications A Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline at minimum, a Master’s is preferred.
A minimum 2 years of experience in creating and managing large-scale, distributed data
Expertise in Python and Spark.
Experience in other programming languages such as Java, Scala, or C++ is a plus
Expertise in SQL
Experience designing and deploying high-performance data processing systems with reliable data validation, monitoring, and logging practices
Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark and Databricks
Familiarity with software development best practices, including version control, CI/CD and CAB processes
Expert knowledge of databases and modern data workloads
Who we are looking for A strong communicator
Detail-oriented and organized
A leader with an ownership mindset
Passionate about machine learning
Able to work independently and as part of a team




What we offer In addition to a highly competitive salary, we offer a great range of benefits, a company pension plan, free parking, exclusive team member offers, and opportunities for development and career progression.
If you’re looking to join a team that puts people first, you’re in the right place.
Compensation Compensation Details: $85,062.00 - $106,328.00 The compensation offered for this position will take into consideration location, education, skills, experience and other factors.
Pattison Food Group is a Jim Pattison business and Canada’s largest Western-based provider of food and health products. Headquartered in British Columbia, Canada, we have been in business since 1915. We proudly employ nearly 30,000 team members who are committed to achieving long‑term growth and share a passion for giving back to the communities where we do business. Together, we leverage each other’s collective strengths to enhance efficiencies across our respective organizations. Our largest and signature company is Save-On-Foods. With 11 retail banners operating nearly 300 food and drug retail locations that are uniquely positioned to cater to the needs of their communities across Western Canada and the Yukon Territory, four wholesale businesses catering to the diverse needs of their customer bases across Canada, several food and pharmacy production facilities focused on high‑quality distinct offerings, an industry‑leading loyalty program, a world‑class set of proprietary consumer brands, and an award‑winning restaurant, Pattison Food Group businesses are proud to be recognized as leaders in customer service and innovation.

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📌 Data Engineer 1 (British Columbia)
🏢 Pattison Food Group
📍 British Columbia