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Senior Data Engineer - Oil & Gas

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Senior-level experience designing and developing production data pipelines with Azure Databricks
  • Degree or professional background in petroleum, reservoir, chemical, mechanical, geological, geophysical, or another relevant engineering or applied-science discipline
  • Demonstrated experience with incremental processing, change detection, reconciliation, and pipeline design
  • Strong analytical and investigative skills

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and optimize pipelines for sensor and related operational data
  • Develop complex transformation and calculation logic based on engineering requirements
  • Implement robust incremental-processing patterns for high-volume and continuously changing datasets
  • Collaborate with clients to translate business problems into technical solutions

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Analytical Skills
  • Problem Solving
  • Collaboration
  • Mentorship

About the company

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Data Elephant

Data Analytics & Business Intelligence

Data Elephant is a Vancouver, BC based boutique Data & Analytics consulting firm. We help organizations across industries drive value from their data and become more data-driven through an agnostic, flexible and local delivery model. We help change your business through data enablement. Data Elephant helps organizations modernize their data infrastructure and platforms to enable better decisions, self-service reporting, advanced analytics, AI, and machine learning. Our team of engineers, scientists, and analysts are passionate about applying the latest technologies to deliver real business outcomes. From tailored data solutions to ongoing support, we provide end-to-end services that adapt to each client's needs. We emphasize collaboration, transparency, and long-term partnerships, acting not only as builders, but also as trusted advisors. Data Elephant is a Vancouver-based, specialized Databricks Partner, with deep expertise in modern data platforms, cloud architecture, and AI enablement built on Databricks. Our team has deep experience designing and operating Databricks Lakehouse architectures across AWS, Azure, and GCP – helping organizations move from legacy analytics to scalable, high-performance platforms that are ready for ML and Generative AI. As a leading provider of Databricks Consulting Services in Canada, Data Elephant helps organizations modernize their data platforms, accelerate AI innovation, and unlock insights on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform – securely, scalably, and responsibly.

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Job description

We are looking for a Senior Databricks Data Engineer to join our team.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building end-to-end solutions and wants to work on real-world industrial use cases that comes from an Engineering background, and has experience in Oil & Gas.

In this position, you’ll contribute to a variety of impactful client projects, including:

  • Building AI-powered anomaly detection systems for operational and industrial data
  • Modernizing asset management workflows 
  • Developing natural language interfaces for querying enterprise and operational data
  • Implementing Azure Databricks foundations and pipelines with best practices
  • Creating scalable data pipelines and ML workflows in cloud environments
  • Enabling real-time and batch data processing for analytics and AI use cases
  • Working through complex and challenging data conditions, including incremental processing, late-arriving or changing records, complex business and engineering rules, and reconciliation of results across processing runs

The ideal candidate combines strong data engineering experience with an engineering or applied-science background. Direct experience industrial time-series data, scientific measurements, telemetry, financial reconciliation, or other datasets where accuracy, traceability, and incremental recalculation are critical.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and optimize pipelines for sensor and related operational data.
  • Develop complex transformation and calculation logic based on engineering requirements.
  • Implement robust incremental-processing patterns for high-volume and continuously changing datasets.
  • Design, build, and deploy end-to-end AI/ML solutions in production environments
  • Develop robust backend systems and APIs to support AI-driven applications
  • Build and maintain data pipelines and feature engineering workflows
  • Implement and operationalize machine learning models (training, deployment, monitoring)
  • Work with modern AI tooling (LLMs, agents, orchestration frameworks)
  • Collaborate with clients to translate business problems into technical solutions
  • Contribute to architecture decisions and best practices across projects
  • Mentor client team members and contribute to internal capability building
  • Work directly with engineering and operational SMEs to understand physical processes and translate their knowledge into technical requirements.
  • Make engineering calculations and data transformations explainable, traceable, testable, and auditable.
  • Document data lineage, calculation logic, assumptions, dependencies, and exception-handling rules.

Ideal Background

  • Senior-level experience designing and developing production data pipelines with Azure Databricks including strong experience with complex SQL, Python, Spark, or comparable data-processing technologies.
  • Complex Excel and CSV integration experience
  • Experience with Databricks dashboards and Genie
  • Strong requirements gathering experience with Field Engineers and Technical SMEs 
  • Demonstrated experience with incremental processing, change detection, reconciliation, and pipeline design
  • Experience handling time-series, telemetry, sensor, operational, scientific or industrial data
  • Medallion architecture and modelling 
  • Strong analytical and investigative skills, with the patience to work through detailed logic and difficult data-quality problems.
  • Degree or professional background in petroleum, reservoir, chemical, mechanical, geological, geophysical, or another relevant engineering or applied-science discipline is strongly preferred.
  • Experience in upstream oil and gas, thermal operations, SAGD, well surveillance, production engineering, or subsurface data would be a significant asset.

This role presents an exciting opportunity to work on practical, high-impact AI use cases - not just prototypes, shape how AI is applied to client environments, and change the game on traditional processes and platforms. Come join a growing organization helping clients take a new, lean and value-driven approach to data and engineering!

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