{"id":3419637,"url":"https://alion.io/job/sleep-country-canada-inc-principal-data-engineer","title":"Principal Data Engineer","company":{"id":1049843,"name":"Sleep Country Canada Inc.","domain":"sleepcountry.ca","url":"https://alion.io/company/sleepcountry","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":null},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Brampton, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":140000,"max":160000,"currency":"CAD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":114000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure Data Factory","optional":false},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Databricks","optional":false},{"name":"ETL/ELT","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-28T14:22:30Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-28","last_verified_at":"2026-11-02T09:47:06Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":4,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":4},"description":"Sleep Country/Dormez-vous? is seeking aPrincipal Data Engineer to provide senior technical leadership for our enterprise data strategy, platform architecture, and engineering capabilities. You will design scalable, secure, and future-ready data platforms supporting analytics, operational reporting, AI, and business innovation.\nWorking closely with stakeholders across Business Intelligence, Digital, Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, and Technology, the Principal Data Engineer drives the design and evolution of modern data platforms that deliver trusted, secure, and accessible data products at scale. The role champions engineering excellence, establishes best practices and architectural standards, drives innovation through modern cloud and data technologies, mentors technical team members, and influences enterprise technology decisions to support the organization's long-term data, analytics, and AI transformation strategy.\nIn this current open role you will:\nLead enterprise data architecture and strategy.\nDesign and modernize scalable, secure, high-performing data platforms.\nEnsure data quality, reliability, observability, governance, security, and compliance.\nPartner with business and technology stakeholders to deliver strategic data solutions.\nMentor engineering teams and promote innovation and continuous improvement.\nEstablish best practices for data engineering, modelling, testing, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and platform governance.\nEvaluate and implement emerging data technologies and architectural approaches.\nDesign and optimize enterprise-scale ETL and ELT pipelines.\nDefine technical roadmaps for enterprise data platforms and align investments with business priorities.\nDevelop reusable data products, frameworks, and integration patterns that accelerate delivery across teams.\nSet standards for data architecture, modelling, lineage, metadata, and lifecycle management.\nConduct architecture and design reviews to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, and cost-effective.\nImprove platform performance, availability, disaster recovery, and operational resilience.\nEstablish monitoring and alerting practices to proactively identify data-quality and pipeline issues.\nCollaborate with analytics and AI teams to deliver reliable, accessible, and well-governed datasets.\nProvide technical guidance on build-versus-buy decisions and technology selection.\nIdentify opportunities to simplify legacy environments and reduce technical debt.\nCommunicate complex technical concepts, risks, and recommendations to business and technology leaders.\nThe qualifications and experience we like to see:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data, or a related field.\nAt least 10 years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, analytics engineering, or a related technical discipline.\nProven experience designing enterprise-scale data architectures and cloud data platforms.\nExpert-level SQL and data-modelling skills.\nStrong proficiency in Python and modern data-engineering frameworks.\nExtensive experience developing and optimizing ETL/ELT pipelines at scale.\nDeep cloud-platform expertise, preferably with Microsoft Azure technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, Fabric, Data Lake, and Azure DevOps.\nStrong understanding of distributed processing, real-time data integration, and streaming technologies.\nExperience with DataOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and automated testing.\nStrong knowledge of data governance, security, privacy, and metadata management.\nWhy members of our Corporate team love working at Sleep Country Canada/Dormez-vous?:\nThis is not a job but a CAREER with opportunities for growth and advancement \nDiverse and inclusive work environment \nWe will invest in you and provide extensive training, mentoring and continuous development \nAccess to training and development platforms \nFull medical, dental benefits and a Deferred Profit Sharing Program \nAnnual Wellness Credit of up to $250.00 for any products/services that improve your health and well-being, i.e., health assessments, nutrition counselling, hiking shoes, a yoga outfit or fitness equipment! \nAssociate Discount Program where you will be able to enjoy some of the world’s best sleep products \nMaternity/Parental leave top up benefits \nTuition Reimbursement Program that covers professional AND personal development \nLong service awards, celebrations and other social events \nAssociate Referral Program \nPaid day off to volunteer at your local charity of choice \nAdditional Information\nThis is a current open position. The salary range for this position is $140,000.00-$160,000.00 annually. Actual salary for the role may vary depending on work location of the successful candidate and other factors including but not limited to, skills, education, experience, working conditions and the local labor market.\nOur recruitment process incorporates various screening technologies, which may include AI, to screen for employability or suitability. Human recruiters review all applications.\nInclusion & Belonging\nWe are committed to building a company culture of inclusion and diversity where differences are embraced and valued, this allows us to better understand and meet the needs of our customers and the communities we serve. We want to ensure every job applicant is treated fairly and with respect regarding race, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. 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