Senior Data Developer

If you take pride in being compassionate honest professional and safe consider an exciting and rewarding career at Shannex. Our communities offer more than a place to work they welcome and celebrate Great People who inspire meaningful connections while Leading the Way to Better Living.

We are searching for aSenior Data Developerto join ourAnalytics and Innovationteam based inHalifax Nova Scotia.

Reporting to the Director of Analytics and Innovation the Senior Data Developer is a senior technical role responsible for building and optimizing the organizations data platform to support enterprise reporting analytics and future AI capabilities.

This role focuses on developing data pipelines transforming and structuring data and creating curated datasets and semantic models within Microsoft Fabric.

Meaningful Benefits

You will be surrounded by supportive and talented team members who make our communities great places to live work and visit. As an established and respected organization in the healthcare sector Shannex offers opportunities for growth development and advancement. And at the end of every day you will know youve made a measured difference in the lives of our residents. Additional benefits include:

• Comprehensive health vision and dental benefits planincluding an Employee and Family Assistance Program
• Life travel and other insurances
• Access to virtual healthcare 24/7 for FREE through the group health benefit plan
• RRSP program (5% employer matching)
• Vacation accrual (begins immediately) and travel insurance
• Free onsite parking
• Access to thousands of perks vendors and discounts through our WorkPerks program including excellent discounts for apparel restaurants technology fitness travel and tickets to some of your favorite sports and entertainment events
• Access to continuing education and training through Shannexs Centre of Excellence
• Opportunities to be part of sector innovation and continuous improvement initiatives
• Recognition and Rewards for service excellence and safety

About the Opportunity

• Design build and maintain data pipelines within Microsoft Fabric to ingest transform and structure data from multiple source systems
• Develop scalable and reliable data workflows to support enterprise reporting and analytics
• Optimize data pipelines for performance reliability and maintainability
• Design and build curated datasets that support analytics and reporting across the organization
• Develop data models that promote consistency reusability and ease of use for analysts
• Apply data modeling best practices (e.g. star schema denormalization where appropriate)
• Develop and maintain semantic models (Power BI / Fabric) to enable consistent trusted reporting
• Partner with analysts to ensure datasets and models meet business needs and reduce duplication
• Implement data validation quality checks and monitoring within pipelines and datasets
• Support data governance practices including documentation lineage and metadata management
• Ensure adherence to data standards naming conventions and security requirements
• Support and execute cloud data migration and modernization efforts
• Contribute to the ongoing development and optimization of the data platform
• Assist in evaluating and adopting new data technologies aligned with organizational needs
• Performs additional duties as required

About You

In addition to placing high value on continuous improvement collaboration and accountability you bring:

• Bachelors degree in computer science Information Systems Data Science Statistics Engineering or a related field
• Masters degree in a related field is an asset
• 7 years of experience in business intelligence data engineering or analytics development
• Strong experience working with SSIS and other ETL tools to build and optimize data pipelines
• Advanced hands-on experience with Power BI including DAX Power Query and development of datasets data models and semantic layers for Power BI reporting
• Strong understanding of data warehouse/lakehouse concepts query optimization and cloud-based analytics environments
• Experience supporting or contributing to cloud migration projects
• Successful candidates will be required to obtain aclear Criminal Record Check andwhere applicable a Vulnerable Sector Check prior to appointment

Considered an Asset:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate
• Leadership experience in mentoring junior BI developers and leading cross-functional BI projects.
• Proven expertise in lakehouse architecture and hybrid data solutions that integrate on-prem and cloud environments
• Hands-on experience with big data technologies.

Great People is a core value at Shannex grounded in the belief that our team members are the spirit and foundation of our organization. We are committed to equity diversity inclusion and belonging and to fostering a culture that celebrates individuality and ensures every person is treated with fairness and respect. Here every team member belongs. With locations across Nova Scotia New Brunswick and Ontario our team members help build communities that support connection wellbeing and longevity.

Shannex-owned brands include Allbright Life Parkland Retirement Living & Lifestyle Residences Parkland at Home Faubourg du Mascaret and Shannex Enhanced addition Shannex provides Transitional Health Services in partnership with Nova Scotia Health. For more information visit .

All applications are kept in strict confidentiality.

Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.