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Are you a Senior Data Platform Engineer professional focused on platform administration, operations and support, have strong Leadership and Communication skills who is looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity?The Canada Data Team is looking for a Data Platform Engineer to join our team.

The Senior Data Platform Engineer is responsible for providing data platform and tool solutions to support business needs at Canada Life. Leveraging your cloud and Microsoft Azure technical subject matter expertise, you will have the exciting opportunity to design, adapt, and maintain data platform solutions within a cloud environment. You will navigate and reconcile considerations for immediate and future platform needs, encompassing but not limited to scalability, maintainability, performance, accuracy, reliability, security, compliance, cost, and robustness, even in situations where the requirements may be unclear or evolving. You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with Product Owners as well as developers, quality assurance, governance & support experts in Toronto and other offices. In this role, you will be part of an on-call rotation in order to service our customers.

What you will do

Design and build highly scalable data platform within a cloud environment

Partner with our internal customers, stakeholders and project teams to understand their development pain points and craft platform solutions to address them

Support the effort to build and enhance DevOps services, including platform monitoring, and platform and deployment support for respective data delivery pipelines

Connectivity enablement and integration for delivery pipelines and their data sources





Deliver appropriate Resource Access Permissions for respective use cases to implement Data Security and Governance

Troubleshoot complex performance and integration issues across Azure services

Design and implement data platform based on Azure Databricks supporting analytical and operational workloads

Administer, support, and optimize Azure-based data platforms including Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, ADLS Gen2, and associated platform services

Provision and configure cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices

Collaborate with Cloud Engineering teams to deploy and maintain Azure Databricks workspaces and supporting infrastructure

Manage platform security, access controls, and governance through Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory groups, and role-based access models

Troubleshoot platform issues involving Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Control-M, storage, networking, and virtual machines

Monitor platform health, investigate incidents, analyse logs, and implement proactive measures to improve platform reliability

Support onboarding of new applications and data domains to the enterprise data platform

Develop automation to streamline platform administration, provisioning, and operational support activities

Participate in incident, problem, change, and release management processes





Provide operational support within an on-call rotation to ensure platform availability and service reliability

What you will bring

A University or College education in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience

10+ years of experience supporting cloud-based data platforms in a production environment

Strong understanding of Databricks and cloud data architecture, infrastructure best practices, and distributed systems

Hands‑on experience administering Azure Databricks workspaces, clusters, Unity Catalog, permissions, and security configurations

Experience supporting Azure services such as ADLS Gen2, Storage Accounts, Key Vault, Virtual Machines, Networking, Private Endpoints, and Azure Monitor

Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices

Experience managing access controls using Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory security groups

Experience troubleshooting Azure Data Factory and enterprise scheduling/orchestration platforms such as Control‑M

Robust understanding of operational support processes including incident management, problem management, change management, and root‑cause analysis

Experience interpreting platform audit logs, diagnostic logs, monitoring dashboards, and performance metrics

Familiarity with CI/CD practices and DevOps methodologies

Strong problem‑solving and decision‑making abilities

Experience with agile methodologies and delivery management tools (e.g., Jira, Trello)

Customer focused with strong communication and relationship management skills

Ability to quickly adapt

📌 Senior Data Platform Engineer (Winnipeg)
🏢 The Canada Life Assurance
📍 Winnipeg