Toronto, Ontario Hybrid Full-time USD 85,000 – 115,000 / year

Hotspex Media is hiring a Data Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Integrate data from BigQuery, Postgres, and Airtable to deliver clean, usable datasets for AI, analytics, and workflow systems
  • Develop and manage dbt models that transform marketing data into standardized dimensional schemas using Kimball methodology
  • Manage all SQL assets including queries, stored procedures, views, materialized views, and scheduled routines
  • Improve data warehouse efficiency and reduce costs through query optimization, partitioning, clustering, and incremental processing
  • Orchestrate data workflows using Airflow or comparable tools
  • Convert one-off SQL scripts into version-controlled, tested, and documented procedures
  • Enhance system performance and reduce expenses via strategic partitioning, clustering, and materialization
  • Proactively identify and resolve performance issues before they affect downstream consumers
  • Take full ownership of all production-level stored procedures, scripted routines, and scheduled queries in BigQuery and Postgres
  • Create new stored procedures for batch data transformations, reporting, and AI/ML feature preparation
  • Maintain an up-to-date inventory of stored procedures with clear ownership, dependencies, and operational runbooks
  • Design data schemas and build dbt models that standardize input from marketing platforms like Google Ads, Meta, and LinkedIn
  • Enforce data quality by implementing dbt tests for uniqueness, non-null values, referential integrity, and custom business rules
  • Manage incremental models for large tables, balancing cost efficiency and data freshness
  • Own the documentation and lineage tracking within dbt for full transparency
  • Schedule, monitor, and version data pipelines using Airflow or similar orchestration tools
  • Define alert routing, retry strategies, and backfill procedures for pipeline resilience
  • Collaborate with Workflow Engineering on integration points between n8n and data pipelines
  • Implement automated data validation including dbt tests, freshness checks, and anomaly detection for row counts
  • Respond to data quality incidents within one business hour as per SLA requirements
  • Document runbooks for recurring failure scenarios to streamline incident resolution
  • Monitor, report, and reduce the frequency of data incidents on a quarterly basis
  • Work with Workflow Automation Engineers to define ingestion contracts covering landing schemas and refresh schedules
  • Collaborate with Junior AI Engineers to support RAG, embeddings, and AI services through feature tables and serving views
  • Translate requirements from product management, customer success, and product teams into effective dimensional data models

Work Arrangement

Hybrid — Greater Toronto Area, Remote (if outside Greater Toronto Area)

Other

  • Must be legally authorized to work in and based in Canada
  • Due to the large volume of applications received, the company may use artificial intelligence to assist with screening
About company
Hotspex Media

Digital Advertising That Works as Hard as You Do.

Hotspex Media is a full-service digital media agency offering strategic media planning and buying services. The company specializes in integrated advertising solutions across digital channels, including programmatic, display, video, social, and connected TV.

As an independent and objective agency, Hotspex Media provides unified ad reporting and centralized campaign management through its in-house development team. The agency is recognized as the #1 Ranked Media Buying and Planning Agency on Clutch.co and partners with major platforms including Google, Amazon Ads, and Meta.

The company emphasizes a culture of resilience, empowerment, and collaboration, supporting both client success and employee growth. It offers proprietary solutions like Reticle™ Emotional Targeting to increase ad engagement through emotionally aligned placements.

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Job Details
Department Product, Data Science
Category data
Posted 7 days ago