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Data Engineer

digital good project • 🌐 Remote

Remote Posted 1 day, 8 hours ago

Job Description

**Please note digital good is

not

affiliated with any government, nor official public sector entity. It is a social enterprise privately held.**

Company Description

Canadian civic tech Start-up building a public grade

data lake

to host and structure legislative transcripts from across Canada — starting with Hansard from federal, provincial, and territorial governments. You’ll be at the center of a bold effort to make legislative language machine-readable, searchable, and useful to researchers, journalists, and the public.

Role Description

This is a 6month contract for a *part-time remote

Data Engineer

located anywhere in Canada.

Amended to part-time commitment due to some data awaiting provincial data use agreement.

The Data Engineer will be responsible for design, build, and maintainance of a modern data lake infrastructure (cloud-native or hybrid)

Design and deploy a scalable data lake architecture to ingest Hansard transcripts from 13+ jurisdictions (web, PDF, HTML, RSS, etc.)

Write clean, resilient

ETL pipelines

to parse and normalize PDFs, HTML pages, XML feeds

OCR layers or scraped content (where APIs aren’t available)

Apply document classification or tagging logic (e.g. date, bill, speaker, topic)

Maintain metadata consistency across jurisdictions

Optimize storage (e.g., Parquet, Delta Lake) for future querying by AI and policy tools

Build toward public API endpoints or civic dashboards

Ensure version tracking (for evolving bills) and reproducibility

Qualifications

Entry level proficiency in Data Engineering and Data Modeling

AWS (S3, Glue, Athena), GCP (BigQuery, Cloud Functions), or Azure

Knowledge of data formats JSON, CSV, Markdown

Ontario College Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Experience in the technology or digital sector is a bonus

Please apply by October 20th, 2025 at 5:00p.m. EST.

Accommodations are available upon request as per the accessibility laws. Please forward questions, or request to digitalgood@icloud.com. We are not affiliated with the government of Canada.

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