Data Engineer - Intermediate

Data Engineer—Intermediate

• Location: Ottawa, ON - Hybrid - (Onsite up to 2 times a week)
• Pay Rate: $78.60/hr - $97/hr
• Contract Length: 12 Months

We at Raise are hiring a Data Engineer - Intermediate for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand.

We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.

Responsibilities

• Design and build data ingestion pipelines for structured and unstructured sources on AWS.
• Normalize, enrich, and tag data into semantic and vector‑ready formats using AWS Bedrock Knowledge Bases.
• Support knowledge‑base‑driven architectures used by AI assistants and agents.
• Partner with architects and developers on data schemas and data contracts.
• Troubleshoot data quality, performance, and completeness issues.
• Build automation to enable data enrichment to improve data quality.
• Support both fast‑track ingestion for demos and longer‑term governed pipelines.

Skills and Competencies

Must Have:

• Strong experience building ETL/ELT pipelines and data workflow processing—10 years
• Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms (preferably AWS) – 5-8 years
• Experience working with unstructured text data (documents, APIs, standards) – 5-8 years
• Understanding of semantic search, embeddings, and vector store chunking strategies.
• Apache Airflow (or equivalent) for workflow orchestration, dependencies, retries, and monitoring.
• Experience supporting AI/ML or GenAI solutions—3-5 years
• Agile experience – 3-5 years

Nice to have

• Experience with RAG‑based systems provenance patterns.
• Familiarity with data governance, metadata, classification, lineage, and auditability practices.
• AWS Solutions Architect – Professional
• Databricks Data Engineer Professional
• Advances ML Engineer certification
• Enterprise-level AI architect certification

Looking for meaningful work? We can help!

Raise is an established hiring firm with over 65 years of experience. We believe strongly in making the world a better place through work, which is why we’re a certified B Corporation and donate 10% of our profits to charity.

We strive to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply, including people from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with visible/nonvisible disabilities.

We have a dedicated webpage for accommodations where you can learn more about what we offer and request accommodation: https://raise.jobs/accommodations/

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