Principal Data Engineer

Job description

Salary Details The salary range for this position is CAD $55.27/Hr. - CAD $79.45/Hr. Job Summary: Come work as a Principal Data Engineer with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)! As a senior technical leader, you will architect, build, and operationalize modern data products on Azure + Databricks , lead major migrations, and raise engineering velocity and quality through AI-assisted development . You’ll mentor engineers, establish patterns/standards, and ensure solutions are secure, governed, and supportable in an enterprise healthcare environment. As a Principal Data Engineer with Vancouver Coastal Health you will: This work is framed within VCH’s commitments to our pillars of Indigenous Cultural Safety, Anti-Racism, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and Planetary Health. - Lead AI-assisted development adoption for data engineering: define when/how to use approved coding assistants to accelerate delivery while maintaining code quality and auditability. - Establish an AI engineering playbook : prompt patterns, review checklists, “definition of done,” and guardrails (e.g., no sensitive data in prompts; ensure generated code is tested, reviewed, and observable). - Enable “agentic” workflow...