Senior Analyst Analytics Engineering

About the role

Scotiabank is looking for a Senior Analyst Analytics Engineering to design, build, and operate data pipelines and analytical data models. The role bridges development and operations, ensuring data availability, quality, and reliability for business‑as‑usual processes and future scalability.

Key responsibilities

• Develop ingestion and transformation pipelines from source systems.
• Design scalable, reusable analytical data models.
• Provide reliable datasets for BI, campaigns, insights, and advanced analytics.
• Monitor production pipelines, detect failures, and resolve incidents within SLA.
• Conduct root‑cause analysis of pipeline issues and optimize query performance.
• Automate data processes to improve operational efficiency.
• Document pipelines, models, and processes for maintainability.
• Collaborate with Analytics and BI teams to ensure consistent data consumption.

Required profile

• Experience as a Junior Data Engineer or Technical Business Analyst.
• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Familiarity with cloud computing, data quality, and data governance concepts.
• Experience in retail banking or risk banking is a plus.

Required skills

• SQL
• Git
• Docker
• Apache Airflow
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Apache Spark (desirable)
• Google BigQuery
• Cloud computing platforms
• Big Data technologies
• GitHub, JIRA, Confluence
• Microsoft Power BI
• Agile methodology