- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Senior
- Department
- IT & Technology Systems
- Posted
- Nov 7, 2026
About SSENSE
SSENSE is a Montreal-based retailer bringing together established and emerging luxury brands across fashion and other product categories. Its work combines e-commerce, cultural content and a Montreal store, with roles spanning merchandising, technology, studio production, customer experience and corporate functions.
SSENSE is seeking a Senior Data Developer to design and deliver reliable, scalable data pipelines and datasets across its data mesh, own core data platform components, and contribute to knowledge- and semantic-layer initiatives. The role includes troubleshooting, architecture reviews, and mentoring peers; it is permanent, full-time, and hybrid, with two days in the office.
Role & Responsibilities
- Design and operate scalable data pipelines that cleanse, structure, and integrate data across SSENSE’s data mesh, maintaining pipeline reliability above 99% against defined SLAs.
- Own the accuracy, reliability, and performance of core data platform components, balancing delivery speed, maintainability, and technical debt.
- Develop and maintain tools that enable analysts and data owners across domains to model their data and define contracts, ensuring outputs are consistent and joinable.
- Contribute to data and metadata pipelines supporting SSENSE’s emerging knowledge-layer and semantic-layer initiatives alongside core platform work.
- Resolve complex pipeline issues, participate in solution and architecture reviews, and mentor peers on data modelling and ETL best practices.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; a master’s degree is an asset.
- Minimum 7 years of experience in functional and/or object-oriented programming (OOP), with extensive knowledge of Python and its data manipulation libraries, Pandas and NumPy.
- Deep expertise in relational database management systems (RDBMS) and large-scale NoSQL databases, alongside hands-on experience with AWS services including Glue, Athena, Redshift, S3, and Lambda.
- Proficiency with containers, orchestration frameworks, DevOps/IaC tools including Kubernetes and Terraform, and CI/CD tools including Jenkins and GitHub Actions.
- Familiarity with metadata and data-catalog systems, schema design, and continuous integration practices for data pipelines.
- Ability to independently evaluate complex, multivariable situations involving conflicting data and make high-impact decisions without perfect information.
- Ability to assess short-term solutions against long-term architectural health to build scalable, sustainable enterprise solutions.
- Proven ability to use sophisticated analytical tools to diagnose root causes of systemic failures and explain complex findings clearly to business stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience constructively challenging technical decisions, guiding architecture reviews, and mentoring team members on development standards.
- Experience or strong interest in designing data-capture processes that automatically generate high-quality data for knowledge layers and AI use cases.
Skills
Experience
Minimum 7 years of experience in functional and/or object-oriented programming.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; a master’s degree is an asset.
Workplace
This position is based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Benefits
Extended health and dental benefits, including comprehensive mental health programs and coverage; parental top-up program; generous employee discount on ssense.com; access to telemedicine and an employee and family assistance program; matching contributions to savings and retirement plans; gender affirmation coverage; opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and an innovative team.
Culture
SSENSE’s job descriptions emphasize collaboration between commercial, creative and technical functions. Studio roles balance visual standards with production requirements, while technology and merchandising roles focus on the tools and processes supporting the retail operation.
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