Data Specialist - Calgary, AB

Certarus is the North American leader in providing low carbon energy solutions through a fully integrated compressed natural gas (CNG), renewable natural gas (RNG), and hydrogen platform. The company safely delivers clean-burning fuels to remote communities and industrial customers not connected to a pipeline.

By displacing more carbon-intensive fuels, Certarus is leading the energy transition and helping customers lower operating costs and improve environmental performance. With the largest fleet of specialty trailers in the world, the company is uniquely positioned to meet the growing demand for low and zero-emission fuel distribution.

Summary:

Certarus is creating an innovative technology platform to drive business efficiencies, build technology products, and to accommodate the Company’s rapid growth trajectory.  Having established a core foundation in leading technologies (AI, IIoT, Edge Computing) and a Big Data platform that collects over a billion data records per day, Certarus aims to leverage its data to strengthen its competitive advantage. 

The Data Specialist will be responsible for developing and managing advanced data infrastructure to support the company's core applications and analytics. You will work alongside a diverse technology team, including a solution architect, business intelligence analysts, software developers, and business users, to ensure smooth and efficient data operations.

This role also offers the opportunity to contribute to and grow into leading AI and machine learning initiatives at Certarus. As our customers and teams adopt AI-enabled solutions, you will help ensure our data is AI-ready (trusted, well-modelled, and well-documented) and may partner with analytics and product teams on experiments, PoCs, and production deployments. We are looking for continuous learners who enjoy new challenges and can act as catalysts for data-driven solutions and AI adoption across the organization.

Schedule:

• This is a full-time position with normal working hours; little to no travel is expected.
• We support a hybrid work environment consisting of flexible remote and in-person collaboration at our Calgary office.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design and implement complex enterprise data projects on the Azure platform.
• Curate large amounts of raw data from Operational, Transactional and SCADA systems for Lakehouse, Warehouse, Customer Data Share, App Integrations and Analytics workloads.
• Develop and maintain complex & scalable data ETL/ELT pipelines to meet the needs of Certarus’ software applications, API integrations and Analytics.
• Provide guidance from a Data Engineering perspective during architecture planning and technology selection processes and roadmaps for data management & data governance.
• Combine various data types from multiple sources into a data Lakehouse/Warehouse.
• Develop data models to support predictive and prescriptive analytics initiatives. 
• To drive business outcomes, perform data analysis and statistical trending on big data.
• Ensure the reliability and scalability of Certarus’ data infrastructure, working with cloud service providers and internal stakeholders.
• Develop, deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps & Github to ensure seamless and efficient deployment of our data solutions.
• Collaborate with BI, product, and operations teams to define AI/ML use cases and translate them into reliable, production-ready datasets.
• Build and maintain feature-ready datasets, labelling/ground-truth workflows, and data quality checks that support machine learning and advanced analytics.
• Support MLOps and data-to-model pipelines in Azure (e.g., Azure AI Foundry, Databricks ML), including monitoring, versioning, and reproducibility.
• Contribute to emerging GenAI/LLM workloads where applicable (e.g., embeddings, vector databases, and retrieval pipelines) while following security and governance requirements.
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• 3+ years' experience as a Data Engineer, Data Specialist or similar technical role
• Experience with Microsoft Azure solutions, including Delta/Data Lakes, Databricks, Synapse, Data Factory, IoT Hub, Functions, Apache Spark, LogicApps, Notebooks, and PowerShell
• Technical expertise in building and maintaining complex data pipelines in Azure Databricks, Azure Data factory and Microsoft Fabric
• Experience designing and building databases (SQL, NoSQL, Vector, PostgreSQL)
• Strong Knowledge of programming languages (e.g. Python, Scala, SQL, JavaScript, C#)
• Experience building distributed systems meant to process batch and streaming data
• Experience with AI/ML concepts and tools (e.g., statistics/experimentation, scikit-learn, MLflow, Azure Machine Learning, vector databases/embeddings) is an asset.
• Strong curiosity and a continuous-learning mindset; comfortable acting as an AI advocate and helping others adopt AI responsibly.
• Experience with messaging-oriented architectures (e.g. MQTT), and APIs is an asset
• Post-secondary degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience an asset. Data Engineering certifications are an asset.
• Self-motivated individual accustomed to working in a fast-paced, high-performance environment

Certarus embraces diversity and equal opportunity in the way it impacts our continuous business success. As a Core Value of our Winning Team, we believe in surrounding ourselves with passionate and talented people, and consider all experiences, backgrounds, qualifications, and merits to create stronger teams with a diverse and inclusive culture. Certarus is and will remain an equal opportunity employer.

Certarus offers a competitive compensation package, including benefits and retirement plans. Above all, we offer unlimited career advancement opportunities with a dynamic, rapidly growing organization.