Data Analyst Developer

WHO WE ARE

At Air Canada Vacations, we're in the business of making dreams travel. That's why we offer vacation packages, tours, cruises and more tailored to everyone's individual needs. We like to say we have a vacation for every traveller because we do!

If you're someone who's passionate about exploring the world and sharing that enthusiasm with our customers, we'd love to welcome you to our team.

For over 50 years, Air Canada Vacations has been making travel easy, so come and join us in helping fellow Canadians create unforgettable memories wherever they go.

Reporting to the Lead Data Analyst Developer
, the Data Analyst Developer primary function is to participate in the analysis, development, integration and automation of various data pipelines and data infrastructure within the ecosystem of Air Canada Vacations. The Data Analyst Developer is also to support the Data Architect in the transformation of Air Canada Vacation into an agile, cloud centric organization, targeting a replatforming toward a data lake/lake house based environment

• Develop and maintain Data Pipelines to move and transform data in a medallion based data lake / lake house architecture.
• Participate in all phases of the software development lifecycle including design, development, testing, documentation, quality assurance support and maintenance.
• Adhere to design, coding, testing and change control best practices including version control, code review, user acceptance tests, observability/operationalization and documentation.
• Analyse business requirements with the users and design/implement systems or modifications to meet those requirements.
• Provide third level support for data infrastructure and data transformation pipelines.
• Take an active role in the implementation Proof Of Concepts to confirm, reinforce or validate technological decisions.

• Create and maintain Technical Specifications documents relating to data pipelines.

• Develop and maintain operational reports.
• Support the BI team in the implementation and maintenance of the semantic layer.

• Communication
  
  Skills:
  
  Ability to explain complex technical "plumbing" to non-technical business leaders.

• Security & Compliance: Understanding of data privacy laws (GDPR, Canadian privacy act), scoped data (PCI, PII) and security governance.
• Problem-Solving & Analytical Thinking: Ability to identify and resolve data-related challenges
• Agile Mindset: Comfortable working in an evolving environment where technology matures rapidly.
• Technical documents: Ability to document clearly complex pipeline and principles.

• 10+ years experience in an IT role.

• 5+ years hands-on experience developing and maintaining ETL/ELT data pipelines. (SSIS or Spark based platforms)

• 5+ years experience in a multi-cloud environment.

• Advanced knowledge of relational, non-relational databases and data lakes. (MSSQL, Postgres, Dynamo Db, redis, Cloud object storage)
• Strong understanding of Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, and Medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) architectures.
• Advanced SQL and Python (PySpark) knowledge.
• Hands-on experience with Delta Lake, Apache Spark, and Parquet formats.

• Experience dealing with PCI and PII scoped data.

• Knowledge of agility principles.
• Knowledge of UML.

• Fully Bilingual an asset.
• Knowledge of the travel industry is a plus.

• Our team loves to travel, and we have one of the most generous employee travel programs in the industry. You'll be eligible for travel privileges for yourself and other eligible persons once you've completed 6 months of service
• Hybrid work model:
  Corporate Mandate of 4 days in office (Tuesday,