Job Description

PointClickCare is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to design and deliver production-grade streaming pipelines, mentor team members, and drive both business and technical objectives. This hands-on leadership role involves enhancing existing data solutions and shaping the future of the company's data ecosystem using modern technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead and guide the design and implementation of scalable streaming data pipelines
• Engineer and optimize real-time data solutions
• Collaborate with product, analytics, and AI teams
• Advance modernization efforts and adoption of event-driven architectures
• Drive adoption of best practices in data governance and observability
• Embed data quality in processing pipelines
• Establish robust observability for data pipelines
• Foster a culture of quality through peer reviews

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience in software or data engineering (4+ years in streaming/real-time data)
• Experience driving technical direction and mentoring engineers
• Deep expertise in streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming)
• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures and distributed systems
• Practical experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Fluency in data quality practices and CI/CD integration
• Operational excellence in observability
• Solid foundation in data governance and performance optimization
• Experience with Lakehouse architectures

Benefits

• No benefits