Data Engineer / Big Data Support Engineer
Hybrid in Mississauga, ON, CA • Posted 3 days ago • Updated 2 days ago

JC CORPORATIONS
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Job Details
Skills
- Data Engineer
- Big Data Support Engineer
Summary
Job Description:
- 8 10 years of experience in big data engineering and platform support
- Strong hands-on experience with Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Hive, Spark, etc.)
- Proven expertise in Starburst (or Trino/Presto)
- Hands-on experience with Tableau
Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Big Data Engineer / Technical Lead with strong L3 engineering experience to own, optimize, and scale enterprise data platforms. This role requires deep hands-on expertise, strong problem-solving skills, and the ability to lead a team while ensuring platform performance, capacity readiness, and technical clarity through solid documentation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain big data platforms based on the Hadoop ecosystem
- Lead platform capacity planning, including resource forecasting, workload analysis, and growth
- planning
- Continuously optimize platform performance (query tuning, memory/CPU utilization, storage
- efficiency)
- Own Starburst (Trino/Presto) deployments, query optimization, and workload management
- Develop and support analytics and dashboards using Tableau
- Support data science and analytics workloads through JupyterHub
- Establish monitoring, alerting, and performance baselines for proactive issue prevention
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align platform capabilities with business requirements
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across the team
- Drive best practices for reliability, scalability, security, and operational excellence
Documentation & Process Ownership:
- Create and maintain technical documentation including architecture diagrams, runbooks, SOPs,
- and troubleshooting guides
- Document capacity plans, optimization strategies, and performance benchmarks
- Ensure knowledge transfer and platform transparency across engineering and support teams
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- 8 10 years of experience in big data engineering and platform support
- Strong hands-on experience with Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Hive, Spark, etc.)
- Proven expertise in Starburst (or Trino/Presto)
- Hands-on experience with Tableau
- Experience supporting JupyterHub in production environments
- Strong understanding of capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Ability to balance hands-on engineering and team leadership responsibilities
Leadership Expectations:
- Lead technical initiatives with clear ownership and accountability
- Mentor team members and review technical designs
- Communicate platform health, risks, and improvement plans to stakeholders
- Promote a culture of documentation, optimization, and continuous improvement
- Dice Id: 91142017
- Position Id: 8884832
- Posted 3 days ago
Company Info
About JC CORPORATIONS
JC Corp is a team of experts aiming to get your business sail smoothly on the rough tide of huge competitors by its seamless IT solutions. As all business domains are skyrocketing in the current era, it is mandatory to rely on services like banking, staff augmentation and cloud services and we are here to support all your needs to make you grow.
Helping you reach your goals by unlocking new possibilities through IT solutions is JC Corp’s major focus. Time well managed is an opportunity well captured. And we are confident that our expertise will be a great opportunity for our clients to excel.


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