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The Opportunity
The Data & Digital Innovation (D&DI) team drives data and digital excellence across TC Energy's Natural Gas Pipelines business, unlocking value through governance, analytics, AI, and automation. Within D&DI, the Data & Digital Solutions team sits at the intersection of technology and business, building the applications and data products that help one of North America's largest natural gas pipeline networks run smarter.
We're looking for an experienced developer to be our team's main point of contact for Houston-based business leaders. You'll build strong relationships with leaders in Operations, Projects, Safety & Technical Services and Commercial, understand their priorities, help shape their ideas into well-designed solutions, and then build those solutions alongside the rest of the team.
This is a hands-on builder role for someone with experience in designing, developing and delivering production applications. You will be part of a team that owns solutions end-to-end in an environment where AI adoption and digital innovation are accelerating rapidly. As part of the team's presence in Houston, you'll collaborate daily with colleagues in Calgary and Charleston, including our Technical Lead and Team Lead, so strong communication skills and a team-first mindset are essential.
What You'll Do
Stakeholder Engagement in Houston
- Act as the Data & Digital Solutions team's primary point of contact for Houston-based business leaders, building trusted relationships at the manager, director and VP level.
- Intake new requests: facilitate discovery, clarify ambiguous problems, challenge assumptions constructively, and frame each opportunity in terms of business value.
- Capture and clarify new requests from Houston leaders and bring them into the team's intake and planning process.
- Keep stakeholders informed on progress, risks, trade-offs and decisions, in writing and in person, for non-technical audiences.
Design Solutions
- Work with stakeholders and teammates to design solutions that fit real business problems, from data model and integration approach through to the user experience.
- Produce clear, practical designs (architecture diagrams, data flows, component and platform technology choices across AWS and Fabric) that others on the team can build from.
- Evaluate technical options and recommend solutions based on business value, scalability, security, maintainability, cost and enterprise standards.
- Design for the long run: favor reusable patterns, plan for data quality and security, and keep sustainment in mind.
- Take part in design reviews with the team, giving and taking constructive feedback and working within our architecture standards.
Solution Development
- Build and maintain cloud-based solutions on AWS, working with services such as Lambda, S3, Glue, and other platform components relevant to our data and application stack.
- Design, develop, test, and deploy business applications using Microsoft Fabric and AWS to solve natural gas pipeline business problems.
- Participate in the full solution lifecycle: ideation, architecture, development, testing, documentation, deployment, and ongoing support.
- Write clean, maintainable code in languages such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and/or SQL to support application logic, data transformation, and analytics.
Analytics & Insight
- Deliver business analytics and data visualization solutions that translate complex operational data into actionable insights for stakeholders across the Natural Gas business.
- Analyze business processes to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement through data-driven solutions.
Continuous Improvement
- Apply and improve DevOps practices to enable continuous integration, testing, and deployment of applications.
- Stay current with emerging technologies, platform capabilities, and industry trends to continuously raise the bar on solution quality and impact.
- Contribute to the team's broader portfolio of AI, automation and data engineering work, and keep current on platform capabilities.
- Work independently on complex problems and apply the team's engineering practices: source control, CI/CD, automated testing, code review and monitoring.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, Business Information Systems, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 6+ years of experience building and supporting production applications, including [3+] years working directly with business leaders to define, prioritize and deliver solutions.
- Extensive experience building or deploying solutions on AWS cloud services.
- Proficiency in multiple programming or query languages, such as Python, SQL, DAX, or Java Script.
- Experience with prompt engineering for generative AI solutions, including designing, testing, and refining prompts to support application functionality and business use cases.
- Experience developing front-end applications using Angular.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of the midstream natural gas pipeline industry, including pipeline operations, real-time systems, or related industrial data sources.
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric and AWS for data engineering, or Lakehouse architecture.
- Experience in data engineering, including data pipeline development, ETL or ELT processes, and integration from multiple sources.
- Familiarity with AI and machine learning workflows, generative AI, or agentic frameworks such as Bedrock or AgentCore.
- Knowledge of AI Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) frameworks and delivery best practices for scalable AI solutions using tools like Kiro or Claude code.
- AWS or Microsoft certifications, such as AWS Solutions Architect, PL-100, PL-200, PL-400, or Fabric Analytics Engineer.
- Understanding of data governance, data quality, and enterprise data management principles.
To remain competitive, support our high-performance culture and allow for more flexibility in the way we work, we offer a hybrid work model and flexible dress code for our eligible office-based workforce in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. #LI-Hybrid
About our business
We are a leader in North American energy infrastructure, spanning Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. For over 75 years, we have proudly connected the world to the energy it needs. Every day, we move more than 30 per cent of the natural gas used across the continent and connect LNG exports to global markets, powering communities and industries. Complemented by strategic ownership and low-risk investments in power generation, our infrastructure delivers affordable, reliable and sustainable energy across North America. Our field operations span seven Canadian provinces, 34 U.S. states and seven Mexican states. Together, we strengthen the connections that deliver the energy the world relies on-every day.
TC Energy is an equal opportunity employer and participates in the E-Verify program supervised by the US government. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, age, sex, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or disability. We are also committed to providing accommodations throughout the recruitment process. Applicants requiring accommodations or accessible formats are encouraged to contact us at careers@tcenergy.com for support.
All applicants must have legal authorization to work in the country where the position is based, without restrictions. Background screening is required for all positions, which may include criminal and/or credit checks. Offers may be extended at a different level or job title that best aligns with the successful candidate's qualifications.
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