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Tech Lead, Data Engineer

Req ID: 1480945
Category: Engineering- SALARY
Brand: Compass Digital
Location: Toronto, ON
Posting Date: November 11, 2025

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Who Are We?

We are CDAI—the data and artificial intelligence engine of Compass Group North America. We design and deliver custom, in-house solutions tailored to the unique complexities of food service and hospitality. Our work is grounded in strong data foundations, layered with AI to enhance forecasting, streamline operations, and enable better, faster decision-making across Compass Group. With deep integration into the business and a commitment to white-glove service, CDAI empowers associates, clients, and customers through innovative, future-forward technologies.

What’s in it for you?

Join an award-winning culture. We have been recognized for being a Great Place to Work, in addition to being selected as a FORTUNE Global 500 Company, Best Workplaces Retail & Hospitality, and FORTUNE World’s Most Admired Companies.
The opportunities with us are endless. As the world’s largest food and support services company, we offer an extensive range of learning and career opportunities for all our associates.
Health & Safety. The health and safety of our associates, clients and guests has always been our top priority. We have the right processes in place to ensure our teams have the support they need to stay safe, while helping to keep our guests safe.
Health Benefits. For our eligible associates, we offer comprehensive health, vision, and dental care coverage.
A Focus on Mental Health and Wellness. just now is our Mental Health and Well-Being initiative that was created to share credible resources with our associates and the communities we serve on a variety of topics, including mental, physical, spiritual, and financial wellbeing. Visit our Stronger Together Compass website at www.strongertogethercompass.com. We also have an Employment Assistance Program which provides our associates with access to 24/7 support, resources, and information.
We are as diverse as our guests. We believe diverse and inclusive environments support innovation and collaboration, and benefit our associates, clients, and customers. We are committed to Listen, Learn, and Act and our Diversity Inclusion Action Councils (DIAC) are associate led groups that seek to foster inclusion through cultural awareness, engagement and appreciation of diversity. We are Stronger, Together!

Job Summary

Hybrid: 3 Times a Week in Office

The Tech Lead, Data Engineer will work closely to lead a pod of Data Engineers to build out new and maintain existing ETL pipelines in Airflow, along with building and maintain data API’s. They will be part of our Data Technology team working with an all-new technology stack, working closely in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

Now, if you were to come on board as our Tech Lead, Data Engineer, we’d ask you to do the following for us:

Lead a pod of Data-Engineers ensuring that milestones are being hit.
Design, implement and maintain data pipelines for extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL and AWS technologies.
Build and maintain existing Airflow DAGs
Prototype new technology that supports our vision of making our consumer’s experiences better with our data
Provide support and insights to the business analytics and data science teams.
Work with stakeholders to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs
Work with Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers to build out robust and scalable pipelines and APIs

Think you have what it takes to be our Tech Lead, Data Engineer? We’re committed to hiring the best talent for the role. Here’s how we’ll know you’ll be successful in the role:

5-7 years of experience in a similar role.
Comfortable dealing with stakeholders (both internal and external), project managers to ensure deliverables are met.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or similar.
Programming skills with Python, Spark, experience with Apache Iceberg a big plus
Experience with Airflow or other modern orchestration platform.
Strong knowledge of SQL, relational database concepts and SQL scripting
Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Snowflake, CI/CD

Compass Group Canada is committed to nurturing a diverse workforce representative of the communities within which we operate. We encourage and are pleased to consider all qualified candidates, without regard to race, colour, citizenship, religion, sex, marital / family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, aboriginal status, age, disability or persons who may require an accommodation, to apply.

For accommodation requests during the hiring process, please contact PeopleHub@compass-canada.com for further information.