Posted 10 months ago
Data Engineering Consultant
@ Netlight
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Netlight is hiring a full-time Data Engineering Consultant for its new Toronto office, working embedded with client teams to build and ship data platforms and pipelines. The role is 100% in person in Toronto and offers a starting base salary of CA$95,000 to CA$109,000, with total starting compensation of CA$95,000 to CA$125,000. Candidates need 1-4 years of software engineering experience after graduation.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build scalable data platforms and pipelines
- Own data solutions end to end, including deployment and monitoring
- Develop solutions for streaming and batch processing and data warehousing
- Use AI tools day to day in coding and feature delivery
Requirements summary:
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent
- 1-4 years of software engineering experience after graduation
- Proficiency in Python, Databricks, PySpark or Spark, SQL, Airflow, or a major cloud platform
- Strong communication skills and fluent English
- Experience with AI coding assistants and LLM integration
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Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-01-22
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-09
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-28
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Job details
| Seniority | Entry level |
| Department | Software development |
| Experience | 1+ years |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Education | Bachelor’s degree (required) |
| Fields of study | Engineering |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Performance bonus, Wellness |
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Netlight
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Transforming ideas into reality in the digital landscape.
Full company description
Netlight is an international digital consulting firm, helping leading companies to succeed in the digital landscape, from advice to implementation. Our ambition is to co-create and be an augmented partner to our clients as they explore the digital landscape. Our clients range from industry-leading enterprises to disruptive startups turning into unicorns. Trusted with their challenges, we have built a unique experience since 1999 in how to approach the uncharted digital landscape and go from idea to reality, together. We strive to be role models — conscious of positive change at the forefront of society's digital transformation. Creativity thrives in an inclusive and diverse culture. Together with our ambitious clients, we engage in challenges to make a sustainable impact. Netlight is located in Stockholm, Helsinki, Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Zurich, Vienna, Frankfurt, London, Toronto, Gothenburg, and Madrid.
- LinkedIn followers
- 72,777
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 2,229
- Reported office locations
- Local offices in Berlin, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Helsinki, Munich, Oslo, Stockholm, Zurich, Amsterdam, Cologne, London, Toronto, Madrid, and Gothenburg., OO
- Regeringsgatan 25, Stockholm, SE
- Morgartenstrasse 6, Zurich, Zurich 8004, CH
- Ritterstraße 24-27, Berlin, 10969, DE
- Knabrostræde 3a, 4. K, Copenhagen, Capital Region 1210, DK
- Große Gallusstraße 16 - 18, c/o Spaces Omniturm, Frankfurt am Main, 60312, DE
- Trostbrücke 1, Hamburg, 20457, DE
- Pohjoisesplanadi 33A, Helsinki, 00100, FI
- Prannerstraße 4, Munich, Bavaria 80333, DE
- Karl Johans gate 23b, Oslo, 0159, NO
- Herengracht 282, Amsterdam, Nordholland 1016 BX, NL
- Pilgrimstraße 6, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia 50674, DE
- 30 Adelaide St E, Toronto, Ontario M5C 3G8, CA
- Magasinsgatan 1, Gothenburg, Göteborg 411 17, SE
- Huckletree Liverpool Street, 1 Primrose St,, Warnford Court, London, England EC2A 2JN, GB
- Other recorded names
- Netlight
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Netlight is an international digital consulting firm, helping leading companies to succeed in the digital landscape, from advice to implementation. Our ambition is to co-create and be an augmented partner to our clients as they explore the digital landscape. Our clients range from industry-leading enterprises to disruptive startups turning into unicorns. Trusted with their challenges, we have built a unique…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | IT Services and IT Consulting |
| Company size | 1,001-5,000 employees |
| Headquarters | Local offices in Berlin, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Helsinki, Munich, Oslo, Stockholm, Zurich, Amsterdam, Cologne, London, Toronto, Madrid, and Gothenburg. |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 1999 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 2 |
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Be a foundational part of Netlight’s North American story.
About Netlight
Netlight is an award-winning tech consulting firm dedicated to transforming the world's most ambitious digital companies. We believe that lasting impact comes from shared expertise, which is why we've built a culture where our 2,000+ consultants actively collaborate, learn from one another, and grow together. Every Netlighter benefits from personalized mentorship, dedicated coaching, and access to our collective knowledge. We've created a network where trust, accountability, and diverse perspectives thrive, where challenging work fuels both professional development and meaningful relationships. Our success isn't just measured in client outcomes, but in how we grow as individuals and as a firm. At Netlight, personal growth and organizational growth are inseparable. Every consultant shapes our culture and, in turn, is shaped by it.
Come work with us
As a Data Engineering Consultant at Netlight, you will join a collaborative, ambitious, and mutually supportive environment where you define your own journey. You’ll partner with industry-leading clients to solve real business challenges, tackle a variety of technical domains, and grow alongside a brand-new Toronto team. The role has a lot in common with a forward deployed engineer position: you’ll be embedded directly with client teams, building and shipping solutions on the ground to solve their most pressing problems.
A Day in the Life at Netlight
Own the end-to-end lifecycle of data solutions, from architecture and pipeline development to testing, deployment, orchestration, and monitoring.
Develop high-quality, scalable solutions for complex data challenges across streaming and batch processing, data warehousing, lake architectures, and analytics enablement.
Use and build with AI day-to-day - from AI-assisted coding to designing and shipping AI-powered features - to move faster and deliver more value to clients.
Design and build robust, scalable data platforms and pipelines in close collaboration with data scientists, analytics teams, and business stakeholders.
What makes Netlight different
- At Netlight, instead of predefined roles, we tailor positions to fit individuals. On the basis of your experience, strengths, interests and market demand; you take charge of your career path by defining the roles you take on with a variety of clients.
- Netlight is a highly engaged network organization where you connect with peers, seniors, mentors, coaches, EDGE networks, and social circles.
- We build solutions across diverse domains - backend, frontend, cloud, mobile, data engineering, infrastructure, product, UX/UI, and more.
- We have a flat organizational structure with no traditional bosses. We foster collaboration, autonomy, and shared responsibility, empowering everyone to contribute and shape their own career path.
Qualifications we are looking for
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent.
- 1-4 years of experience in software engineering after graduation.
- Fluent in English (spoken and written).
- Based in Toronto; this is a 100% in-person role.
- Legally eligible to work in Ontario, Canada.
- Curiosity about multiple industries and technologies.
- Tech agnostic mindset with proficiency and experience in some of the following: Python, Databricks, PySpark or Spark, SQL, Airflow, Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Strong communication skills
- Proficiency with using and building with AI: comfortable working with AI coding assistants/agents, and experience integrating AI or LLM capabilities into products.
We Offer
- The unique opportunity to be part of building a local company and leading the development of an emerging Netlight office: driving the growth of one of our 15 offices. This is the opportunity to engage in a perfect sweet spot between a scale-up and an established company.
- Competence development is core and realized through a culture of knowledge sharing, feedback, professional coaching and mentorship.
- An international working environment – access to a diverse network of 2,000+ highly talented individuals
- Regular Summits where you connect with the rest of Netlight internationally.
- Modern tech equipment and a centrally located office space.
Compensation and benefits
- Transparent salary development throughout your career with semi-annual compensation reviews
- For this role, candidates can expect a starting base salary of CA$95,000 – CA$109,000. Total starting compensation ranges from CA$95,000 – CA$125,000, consisting of base salary and variable salary. Actual compensation is determined based on skills, experience, and role level.
- Variable salary is our version of a bonus program and, it is paid out bi-weekly together with your base salary. The amount is based in part on your seniority and on the group performance of Netlight
- 20 paid vacation days prorated per calendar year
- 10 paid Care Days (sick/personal days) per year with unlimited additional unpaid sick days
- Extended Health Benefits and Dental Care including an additional CA$1,000 HSA and CA$500 Wellness Account (taxable)
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