Wealthsimple

Sr. Database Administrator, Data Platform

Remote Full Time
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Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. Using smart technology, we take financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada, with over 3+ million users who trust us with more than $100 billion in assets.

Our teams ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas. We're looking for talented people who keep it simple and value collaboration and humility as we continue to create inclusive and high-performing teams where people can be inspired to do their best work.

The Data Foundation team is part of Platform Engineering org in Wealthsimple. The team consists of talented software developers and database admins/developers and is divided into three sub-teams: Data Stores, Data Integrations, and Data Streaming.

We're seeking an experienced Data Engineer/Database Administrator to join our Data Stores team. In this role, you'll be responsible for architecting, maintaining, and administrating our primary analytics data warehouses on Redshift & Snowflake.  In addition, you will collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure excellence of operation for our fleet of RDS Aurora Postgres DBs.

These data stores collectively power critical financial operations and client data, and a successful candidate will work closely with our Data Science, Engineering, and Product teams to optimize database performance, ensure data integrity, and implement scalable solutions as we continue to grow. 

A successful candidate is expected to have deep technical expertise in at least one of these Database technologies and the aptitude and inclination to learn the rest.