Senior Data Engineer

Who we are

At Scene+, we foster an entrepreneurial spirit that drives our mission: making tomorrow even more rewarding for our members. As a unique joint venture between Cineplex, Empire, and Scotiabank, and a network of partners, we have spent almost 20 years delivering unparalleled rewards and experiences.

As we scale and evolve, our focus on innovation and technology is redefining what it means to be an iconic brand that prioritizes a member‑centric experience. Data is not just a tool for us. it’s the engine powering our growth strategy and our journey to becoming Canada’s most beloved loyalty program. We leverage it to provide personalized rewards and create meaningful connections with our members.

Joining Scene+ now means stepping into a role where your passion and skills can make a tangible impact on millions of members. With rewards for every lifestyle, we believe there’s always something to look forward to. Come be a part of our journey
- create exceptional outcomes, collaborate across teams, and shape the future with us.

Who we need

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Data Engineering and Data Governance, we are looking for a Senior Data Engineer who will play a pivotal role in shaping the next generation of Scene+’s data ecosystem. You will build and optimize the pipelines, models, and workflows that power analytics, loyalty strategy, partner insights, and enterprise decision‑making across millions of members and dozens of partners. By introducing modern engineering approaches, automation patterns, and architectural improvements that accelerate our maturity, you will elevate the performance, reliability, and governance of our cloud‑native platform.

This is an opportunity to influence technical direction, collaborate deeply across analytics, marketing, product, and governance teams, and strengthen our organization’s ability to operate from high‑quality, trustworthy, insight‑ready data.

This job posting is for an existing vacancy that is a full‑time, hybrid role working three days per week on site in our Toronto office.

What is in it for you

Leadership and impact. You will operate inside one of Canada’s largest customer ecosystems, with millions of members and multi‑partner data flowing through the systems you build. Your engineering decisions will directly shape how Scene+ understands loyalty behaviour, drives partner value, and scales its next chapter of growth.

Operational excellence. You will work at the core of a modern cloud‑native environment -Snowflake, AWS, Matillion, Salesforce Data Cloud
- driving automation, governance, and performance improvements that strengthen the entire analytics foundation.

Ownership. You will help define the blueprint for Scene+’s next‑generation data platform modernizing CI/CD, strengthening observability, improving lineage and metadata frameworks, and advancing engineering standards across the organization. You will own meaningful components of the platform and leave a lasting architectural imprint.

Technical challenges. You will work with massive datasets, rapidly evolving partners, and an ecosystem undergoing significant expansion. This is an opportunity to solve complex problems at national scale designing systems that must be resilient, automated, and capable of supporting the next wave of growth across Canada.

Accelerated professional growth. You will 10X your technical experience, gaining breadth and depth across cloud platforms, data transformation tools, orchestration patterns, CI/CD, and scalable architecture. You will gain visibility with senior leadership, lead complex technical discussions, and build the influence, communication, and architectural depth required to step into future technical or people‑lead roles.

As our new Senior Data Engineer, you will:

• Ensure operational data excellence. You will architect, maintain, and refine production‑grade pipelines, ensuring they are performant, resilient, and scalable. You will automate workflows end‑to‑end, proactively identify and resolve issues, and continuously improve data quality. You will centralize data into Snowflake and transform it into analytics‑ready structures that power the organization. You will write, debug, and operate production code using Python, SQL, and cloud‑native tools, applying rigorous engineering practices including code reviews, branching strategies, and CI/CD pipelines. You will provide clear and timely updates to stakeholders on proposed solutions, timelines, progress, and any challenges that may arise.
• Support strategic data governance. You will champion the creation of high‑quality, well‑documented, trustworthy data. You will work closely with privacy, security, and compliance teams to strengthen governance practices across key areas, including metadata, lineage, classification, and access management. You will help evaluate tools, fram