Senior Data Engineer

Job Title: Senior Data Engineer
Location: Toronto, ON (4x onsite a week)
Employment Type: Contract
Pay Rate: CAD$45 - $50/HR INC
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer with strong expertise in the Hadoop ecosystem and Google Cloud Platform, particularly GCP Dataproc.
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in modernizing data platforms, optimizing large-scale data processing workloads, and migrating Hive-based workloads to BigQuery.
Required Qualifications

• 6–10+ years of experience working within the Hadoop ecosystem, with deep expertise in Hive, Hive Metastore, and GCP Dataproc.
• Strong hands-on experience with Dataproc Serverless, BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage (GCS), Cloud Composer, and Cloud Logging/Monitoring.
• Solid understanding of table formats (Parquet, ORC), partitioning/bucketing strategies, and query performance optimization.
• Proven experie...