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Are you a student looking for an exciting opportunity that is full of meaningful, diverse, and ambitious assignments? Join Canadian Natural, where we strive to provide opportunities based on your abilities, helping you to contribute in a meaningful way and apply your academic experience to challenging and rewarding projects!
Are you passionate about data and take pride in working with data to generate value? Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Canadian Natural is seeking a Data Engineering Student. As a Data Engineering Student, you will work with Data Analysts, Business Systems Analysts and industry experts to deliver fit-for-purpose data pipelines and data products for analytics and data science. You will develop modern data pipelines that extract data from multiple data sources, transform, combine, validate, and load it into a data lake, data warehouse, or application for further analysis and visualization.
Job location: Calgary, AB – Head Office
Shift schedule: 5 days on, 2 days off, 8 hours/day (Monday – Friday)
Term lengths: 4, 8, & 12 months
Multiple term starts: January 2027 and May 2027
Safety sensitive position: No
Build and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks (PySpark, SQL, Delta Lake) to support enterprise data needs
Develop and manage data lakehouse solutions, ensuring efficient data storage, retrieval, and modeling to support analytics and reporting
Fine-tune performance for queries and data pipelines, ensuring the rapid delivery of critical data
Partner with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver data solutions that meet business objectives
Stay current with Databricks features and industry best practices
Recommend and implement improvements to enhance data engineering workflows and capabilities
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Canadian Natural operates one of the largest Campus Recruitment programs in the country, hiring over 400 students every year. Students hired on with us are made to feel a part of the team, gaining high level experience, knowledge, and training that introduces and prepares them for full-time employment.
We are proud to share that Canadian Natural has been ranked as a Top Employer for 2023, 2024 and 2025 by Canada's Future Workforce and also one of Forbes' Canada's Best Employers in 2025 and 2026.
Industry Leader: We commenced business in 1989 with a handful of employees and modest production, but today we employ more than 10,000 people and produce over 1 million BOE/d.
Community Investment: Social responsibility is a critical element of our commitment to responsible operations and part of our success and pride as a Company. We are committed to investing in the communities where we live and work, creating shared value along the way.
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