Job Description

Ready to Transform Retail? Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada's Top 100 employers where your unique contributions drive success.



Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have a full time opportunity for a Senior Data Engineer. This role is based out of our main office in Mississauga, ON.

As a Senior Data Engineer with Sobeys, you will:

Play a key technical lead role in designing, developing, and optimizing enterprise data solutions using Snowflake and Azure Data Services. Beyond hands-on engineering, will guide junior engineers, lead deliverables, ensure production reliability, and drive best practices across the team. Actively contribute to architectural decisions and help scale data capabilities across the organization. Lead the Data Engineering team through project deliverables, ensuring high-quality development, timely execution, and alignment with business goals. Assist and mentor junior engineers, providing technical guidance, solutions, and support to help them efficiently complete tasks. Own production deployments and post-deployment support, taking accountability for issues raised in production and ensuring adherence to SLAs for resolution. Drive continuous improvement, providing ideas and best practices to optimize pipelines, improve quality, and enhance team performance. Participate and contribute to design reviews, architecture discussions, and contribute to long-term data strategy. Design and build scalable Snowflake models, views, procedures, tasks, and data pipelines. Write complex SQL queries, stored procedures, views, UDFs, and create/managing tasks, streams, and pipelines in Snowflake. Manage end-to-end deployment lifecycle including version control, CI/CD pipelines, production support, and troubleshooting of deployed code. Implement Snowflake Streams, Tasks, and integration patterns for ingestion and ELT processing. Optimize SQL code and ensure performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. Create, debug, and optimize Azure Data Factory pipelines and dataflows. Work with Azure Data Lake Storage, Synapse, and related Azure services as needed. Develop and maintain interactive Streamlit applications to support self-service analytics and operational insights. Utilize Snowflake Intelligence, Cortex AI, and other Snowflake AI/ML services to enhance predictive capabilities and natural language interactions. Ensure secure handling of data using RBAC, policies, masking, and governance frameworks. Collaborate with architects and business teams to ensure data solutions align with enterprise standards. Maintain documentation and ensure consistent application of design patterns and development standards.

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What you have to offer:

A bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field. 5-7+ years of experience in Data Engineering, with strong hands-on experience in Snowflake and Azure Data Factory. Expert-level SQL skills with experience in writing queries, procedures, and optimizing performance. Strong knowledge of ETL/ELT frameworks and data pipeline architectures. Hands-on experience with Streamlit and exposure to Snowflake AI capabilities (Cortex, Snowflake Intelligence). Proficiency in Python and similar scripting languages. Experience leading small teams or mentoring junior developers. Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving abilities, strong communication, stakeholder collaboration skills and ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams A strong sense of ownership, accountability, and commitment to meeting SLAs. Experience with RBAC, security policies, and data masking/tokenization is an asset.

Who we are:

We started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.



Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better - great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.



Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is fuelled by our purpose and values. It shapes our culture and drives business success. As a family nurturing families, we embed DE&I into everything we do. We know that it takes open minds and respect for distinct perspectives to create engaging workplaces, inclusive customer experiences and strong community partnerships. We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.

What we offer:

Our Total Rewards package is designed to help our teammates thrive--physically, financially, and emotionally. While offerings vary by role and employment type (full-time, part-time, contractual), eligible teammates may receive:



Comprehensive Benefits Package with health and dental coverage, life insurance, and short- and long-term disability insurance. Access to Virtual Health Care and an Employee and Family Assistance Program for personalized support. Retirement and Savings Plan to help you build financial security. 10% In-Store Discount at participating banners, plus additional discount programs. Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP), giving you the opportunity to invest in the company's success. Learning and Development Resources to support your career growth. Parental Leave Top-Up to assist growing families. Paid Vacation and Days Off to help you recharge.

Sobeys is committed to providing a compensation structure that is flexible, equitable and competitive in the market to enable performance and growth. To learn more about this opportunity--including expected range of compensation in accordance with Pay Transparency Legislation where required --please click the "I'm interested" button above. Individual Compensation is determined based on qualifications, experience, and internal equity within the range provided.



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To drive our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week.



If you feel that this describes the kind of work you want to do and you are excited about what Sobeys has to offer, then please apply by the posting end date indicated above. We encourage candidates to submit a resume and take the time to ensure that their application highlights what makes them uniquely qualified for this opportunity!