Job Description

Data Analytics Engineer II

Our Technology team has been on an incredible journey the last few years by creating first-to-market initiatives for our customers, adding the latest development languages to our tech stack, and establishing Best Buy Canada as the best Omni-channel experience within the retail industry.

And we believe empowered people and teams make smarter, faster, and more creative decisions. Which is why they operate in a truly Agile environment, where the distance between any one person and senior leadership is microscopic. Here, you will work on something big, small, or super cool and before you can blink 100,000 people will see it. You will create fast, learn fast, and develop fast! Oh, and sometimes you will fail fast too. That is ok. (Honestly.) It is all part of the process.

As a Data Analytics Engineer II your role is to deliver high quality data warehousing solutions that meet the requirements of various business and analytical teams across the enterprise. Your role will also entail building these solutions iteratively and when required translating advanced technical issues into understandable terms for our stakeholders. You will have opportunities to mentor junior engineers to solve standard and complex problems and in technical skill development. Also being an influencer at the director level to help craft the vision for our data analytics platforms.

As a Data Analytics Engineer II you will...

Delivering Solutions

Uses best practices and knowledge of issues to improve processes, designs, or services. Solves complex problems and leads or significantly contributes to the resolution of technical challenges facing the team.

Partner with Technology leaders to provide inputs to the company's data engineering roadmap.

Continuously optimizing for performance, scalability, and ease of use across the companies analytics platforms and pipelines.

Leadership

Provides technical leadership and takes initiative in design discussions to drive quality, standards and performance.

Understands how data availability impacts other teams and departments

Supports the creation of new roles and JDs based on team needs and their own experience.

Knowledge Transfer

Actively shares knowledge through peer mentoring.

Lifts the skills and expertise of those around them through one-on-one reviews and championing teach-outs on industry standard practices

The experience we need...

3-4 years of experience in data analytics

Data Warehousing - Architect and design a solution for Cloud and on-premise data warehouse

Programming Languages - Language Agnostic (Java, SQL, Python, C#, Scala, PL/SQL)

Cloud - Proficient in basic Cloud concepts and architecture. Experience working in Snowflake in an Azure. Data transformation, data modelling, Virtual warehouse and data sharing

Data Modelling - Understand basic concepts from star schema, snowflake, normalization and denormalization. Experience working on diverse data subject areas, able to design and implement a schema with concepts such as foreign keys and well-designed fact / dimensions.

ETL/ELT - Proficient in complex data movements, including rollback strategies, bad record handling, and optimizations for performance and speed.

Analytic Skillsets - Design and implement the new cube and analytic layer for self-serve

Design the reports and using BI tools

You are passionate about...

Passionate about data and analytics - You stay up to date with industry news and trends, always seeking avenues to roll up your sleeves and help elevate the capabilities of Best Buy Canada

Deeply curious - You relentlessly pursue to understand the 'why' behind a trend or anomaly in data; you ask the big, tough questions, and at once investigate and validate the focused answers

A lifelong learner - You hold an engrained desire to keep evolving your craft and pick up new skills

Striving for continuous improvement - You are an agile problem-solver with an ability to think on your feet; you work efficiently, deliver results quickly, and continually implement your learnings

An effective communicator - You are a natural leader with a humble and open-minded attitude; your verbal and written communication skills are top-notch, and you can clearly speak to the value of your work

We believe we have the unique opportunity to help customers enrich their lives and pursue their passions with the help of technology.

Join our amazing team!

We are looking for people just like you.