Data Transformation Specialist

Overview:
As a Data Transformation Specialist you will help build, scale and maintain MPI’s business intelligence and data science platform. You will scale the corporation’s cloud and on-premises infrastructure, improve tools used by analysts and data scientists, streamline data feeds processes and help improve data quality. You will play a key role in elevating the business intelligence and data science delivery by building reliable pipelines and infrastructure to help the team improve modelling efficiency and consistency of data.
**Responsibilities**:
- Contribute to data pipelines by implementing a solid, robust, extensible design that supports key business flows.
- Perform data transformations to populate data-hub, data-lake, data warehouse, reporting databases and downstream data marts.
- Identify technical requirements and deliver solutions by establishing efficient design and programming patterns that meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and help manage the data platform.
- Find trends in data sets and develop algorithms to help make raw data more useful to the enterprise.
- Design, integrate and document technical components for seamless data extraction and analysis.
- Present insights on data and its quality via presentations, visualizations and whitepapers.
- Work with business stakeholders to establish an understanding of the business and determine the data needs of the business.
Qualifications:
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical discipline.
- Five years of progressive experience performing relevant data transformation and engineering work, including:
- Three years of related experience in general data management, such as data architecture, integration, warehousing, or analytics.
- Two years of experience with the Cloud.
- Working knowledge of cloud platforms, Microsoft Azure or similar cloud-hosted databases such as AWS Redshift, Snowflake.
- Working knowledge of architecting efficient framework and optimization designs for analytics platforms, data warehouse design, virtualization, pipelines, ELT, ETL, SSIS packages.
- Strong knowledge of Python, and high proficiency to design and develop ELT pipelines using Spark and Databricks
- Working knowledge of Tableau, Business Objects, PowerBI or similar Business Intelligence tools.
- Working knowledge of handling log or event streaming data sources.
- Working knowledge of DevOps, DataOps, and Git.
- Working knowledge of container technologies e.G., Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Leadership skills to lead data transformation and engineering development across projects, departments, and divisions.
Employee Benefits:
**Health benefits**
We offer a comprehensive health benefits program that includes:
- flexible health, dental and vision plans
- health spending account
- travel health coverage
- other extended health benefits such as ambulance, massage and physiotherapy
**Financial security**
In an effort to support financial security, we offer:
- registered pension plan
- group, dependent, and optional life insurance coverage
- critical illness insurance
- sick leave to cover short-term disability
- long-term disability
**Wellness**
We offer programs that focus on how to better achieve a balance between work and personal commitments, as well as maintain a healthy workplace culture. This includes:
- vacation entitlement
- flexible work arrangement for eligible positions
- maternity, parental and adoptive leaves
- bereavement and family responsibility leaves
- employee and family assistance program
- mental-health programming
- lunch-and-learn offerings
- discounted gym memberships and wellness account
**Diversity and inclusion**
Manitoba Public Insurance believes that diversity and inclusion strengthens us. We consider ourselves to be a barrier-free organization where individual values, beliefs and practices are respected and appreciated for the diversity they bring to our work life.
**Employee recognition**
It’s important to recognize our employees for their contributions. Not only do we recognize employees as they achieve milestone years in their careers, we also have several outlets for leaders and peers to reward each other for work well done.
**Professional development**
We want our employees to grow, which is why we offer support in keeping their skills up-to-date. We offer in-house training, professional development and an educational assistance program.
**Safety and health**
In an effort to encourage a safe and healthy work environment, we offer various safety, health and workplace policies and programs along with technical expertise and assistance to support employee activities in safety and health.