Location: Pickering, ON, CA

Date: Oct 8, 2026

Type of Position: Temporary

Number of Positions: 1

Salary Min: $110,783.00

Salary Max: $132,157.00

Description: Do you want to be part of a team helping to strengthen every community across Ontario? Are you interested in seeing the importance of your work firsthand? Do you have a passion for big data and cloud computing – and know the benefit of using data to improve business practices?

Become a Lead Data Engineer - Temporary Assignment up to 18 months with MPAC

The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation (MPAC) is made up of a team of experts who understand local communities and assess every property in Ontario. What we do provides the very foundation that municipalities use to base the property taxes needed to pay for the services we use every day.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism

MPAC is committed to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism. We are taking important steps towards ensuring that all voices are respected, valued and being heard. MPAC is dedicated to fostering an environment where employees can bring their full, unique and authentic selves and are inspired to do their best work.

Our Information Technology team works closely with each department across the business to design, build and deliver innovative solutions that help make MPAC an international leader in the property assessment industry. The way we think about technology is different, and our teams are proud to share their knowledge and contribute to meaningful, technology-enabled success stories that enhance operational intelligence and customer service delivery. We tackle complex problems collaboratively in an agile environment,



and are committed to ensuring MPAC technology is consistently available, scalable, performance-based and secure. We’re a group of forward-thinking and talented professionals who stay ahead of the game by using open source technology, cutting-edge cloud computing, advanced analytics and predictive and machine learning models.

Job Description

What makes you great for this role?

You provide overall project coordination, team leadership and control of activities related to the elaboration, construction and transition of a diverse range of IT solutions. You are able to convey technical expertise and advice to management and stakeholders to leverage IT solutions and applications that will meet program/service goals and objectives.

We have:

- A team of highly skilled, dedicated and collaborative staff to work with
- Leadership that supports you
- An enterprise that embraces change
- A work setting that has flexible work locations (including hybrid), hours of work and overall employee wellness support

You have:

- Diploma or Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
- 7+ years of progressive development experience in a senior technical capacity
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) including Lambda, Glue, S3, Redshift and related cloud-native services
- Python, SQL, Groovy,



PostgreSQL
- Kubernetes, OpenSearch, Apache Iceberg or Apache Hudi
- Apache Spark, Kafka or similar streaming technologies

- Advanced knowledge of IT technology, tools, skills, techniques and methods
- 3+ years of experience in an IT Team Lead capacity
- Computer science and data engineering principles, including programming, data structures, algorithms, data modelling, data architecture and scalable data pipeline design.
- Modern software engineering and DataOps practices, including CI/CD, version control, automated testing, infrastructure as code, observability, monitoring and data quality.
- Designing cloud-native applications and modern data platforms using distributed processing, data lake/lakehouse architectures, APIs, event-driven design and messaging technologies.
- Core data engineering practices, including data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, storage, metadata management, data lineage and data governance.
- Effective conflict resolution, team building and client relationship management skills
- Analytical and interpretative reasoning skills to assess client needs and develop cost effective and efficient IT solutions
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to communicate effectively to a wide variety of audiences

Nice to have:

- AWS, Data Engineering, Analytics, or Data Architecture certifications (or actively pursuing certification)
- Expertise in cloud computing architecture

What you will do:

- Lead the architecture, design, and delivery of AWS-based OLAP, data warehouse, and lakehouse solutions that enable enterprise report

📌 Lead Data Engineer (Pickering)
🏢 Municipal Property Assessment
📍 Pickering