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Remote Work:
This position is eligible for remote work, within Canada, under our mobile workforce program.
Overview of role:
WestJet Group is seeking a Data Developer for our progressive, essential, and fun Digital Enablement– Data Products team. If you have a strong passion for analytics, demonstrate high accountability, and set high standards with development that follow best-practice you will fit right in. As an Intermediate Developer, you will be responsible for designing and developing code, verifies, tests, documents, amends, and refactors moderately complex programs/scripts and integration services. You will work with a team that directly builds and delivers data products to meet business objectives and outcomes.
Key deliverables include:
- Build data products and solutions (including but not limited to reports and dashboards) in alignment with the Digital and Data Delivery strategy.
- Write Python or SQL code for most projects, including automated tests.
- Work with product teams to define and capture data modeling requirements
- Provide input and subject-matter expertise on future data products
- Produce detailed designs and document work using required standards, methods, and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate.
- Translate logical designs into physical designs.
- Find ways to improve code/scripts and system robustness, resilience, and stability.
- Advise on the right way to apply data development standards and methods, ensuring compliance, and maintain technical responsibility for all the stages and iterations of a data development project.
- Lead review of own work and that of colleagues’.
- Mentor junior team members to promote a communal learning and knowledge sharing culture; provide technical leadership.
- Ensure that assigned daily support activities are dealt with in a successful and timely manner.
- Responsible for the code/scripts that extract, transform, and clean data landing into our Data Warehouse.
- Work with operational partners to ensure the supportability of new features/products and to provide timely technical support and fixes to production issues.
- For assigned customer requests: Communicate with requestors effectively, frequently and responsively to their concerns, issues, feedback, and questions. Advise on the best solution to meet the requestor’s objectives.
Experience and qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics or related field
- 3+ years of experience working in very large data warehouse environments
- 3+ years of demonstrated data developer experience in SQL development and report creation
- 3+ years of Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence experience in a project environment
- Experience and proficiency with Data dimensional modeling, data analysis and data mining
- Self-driven and self-learner
- Expert in writing and tuning SQL scripts
- Experience with ETL and data warehouse automation tools
- Experience developing in Power BI; Tableau is a bonus
- Experience with Azure and/or AWS analytic cloud solutions
- Experience delivering custom solutions using the Scrum delivery methodology
- Strong data related analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Strong ability to understand analytic specifications, and translating these specifications into visualizations and/or underlying code
- Strong ability to develop meaningful, repeatable, and consistent quality checks throughout the development process
- Ability to independently design, and implement data visualization solutions using data visualization best practices
- Excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non- technical stakeholders
- A work ethic based on a strong desire to exceed expectations
- Proven ability to meet tight deadlines, multi-task, and prioritize workload
- Experience conducting large scale data analysis to support business decision making
- Experience in designing and delivering cross functional custom reporting solutions
- Experience with WhereScape and Snowflake
- Experience with JIRA or Azure DevOps
- Expertise with Microsoft BI toolset, including creating and editing: Dim tables, Fact tables, Stored procedures (SSIS), and Scheduled jobs
- Working knowledge of statistics
The benefits of being a WestJetter:
WestJet provides all WestJetters with a competitive total rewards package. On top of that, we offer:
- A fun and friendly culture with colleagues who work together to win
- Travel privileges for you and your family, effective from your start date
- Savings and Benefit programs that are flexible to meet your specific needs
Think we are a fit? Apply now!
About WestJet Group of Companies
Together with WestJets regional airline, WestJet Encore, we offer scheduled service to more than 100 destinations in North America, Central America, the Caribbean and Europe and to more than 175 destinations in over 20 countries through our airline partnerships.
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At WestJet, the safety and security of our people and our guests is a core value and at the heart of what we do. As safety and security is a shared responsibility, it is expected that you will use safe work practices to ensure your well-being and the safety of others.
WestJet recognizes that the use of Alcohol and Drugs can adversely impact a safe work environment and the well-being of others including guests, suppliers and the public, as well as place WestJets operations at risk. All roles that are identified as safety sensitive are required to pass a Pre-Employment Alcohol and Drug Test as per WestJets Alcohol and Drug Policy.
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We embrace what makes us each unique, and what makes us uniquely WestJet. WestJet is committed to inclusiveness, equity, and accessibility and if you require accommodation during the selection process, please let our Talent Acquisition team know. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply. We thank all applicants for their interest in WestJet; however, only those candidates who are selected will be contacted.
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