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As of Aug 8, 2026, the average yearly pay for freelance engineering in Quebec is $85,285.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $48,500.00 and $110,500.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a freelance engineer, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Freelance Engineer, you need strong technical expertise in your engineering discipline, a relevant degree, and often several years of hands-on experience. Familiarity with industry-standard design software (like AutoCAD, SolidWorks, or MATLAB), project management tools, and relevant certifications (such as PE or PMP) are typically required. Exceptional communication, time management, and self-motivation are crucial soft skills for building client relationships and managing independent projects. These skills ensure you can deliver high-quality work, meet deadlines, and maintain a steady flow of clients in a competitive freelance marketplace.

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Employer & Industry UsageUsed by independent professionals across industriesCommon in engineering firms, construction, and manufacturing sectors
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Freelance Engineering involves independent professionals working on a project basis, often remotely, with flexible arrangements. Contract Engineering typically refers to engineers hired through agencies or companies for specific projects, often with more structured employment terms. Both roles require engineering credentials but differ mainly in employment structure and work setup.

How to get freelance engineering jobs?

To get freelance engineering jobs, build a strong portfolio showcasing your skills and experience, and create profiles on freelance platforms such as Upwork, Freelancer, or Guru. Networking, obtaining relevant certifications, and actively applying to projects can also increase your chances of securing freelance engineering work.

What is freelance engineering?

Freelance engineering refers to independent professionals who offer their engineering skills and services to various clients on a project or contract basis, rather than working as full-time employees for a single company. Freelance engineers can specialize in fields such as civil, mechanical, electrical, or software engineering. They often manage their own schedules, negotiate project terms, and are responsible for finding their own clients. This type of work allows for flexibility and the opportunity to work on diverse projects, but also requires self-motivation and business management skills.

What challenges might I face when managing multiple freelance engineering projects simultaneously?

As a freelance engineer, juggling several projects at once can present challenges such as balancing diverse client expectations, meeting overlapping deadlines, and prioritizing tasks efficiently. Effective time management and clear communication are crucial to ensure that each project receives the attention it needs. Many freelancers find using project management tools and setting transparent boundaries with clients helps maintain productivity and workflow. Additionally, staying organized with documentation and regularly reviewing project progress can help you avoid common pitfalls like scope creep or missed deliverables.
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Senior Data Analytics Consultant / Consultante principale en analytique de donnees

New York Holdings

Montreal, QC • Remote

Contractor

Re-posted 29 days ago


Job description

(FRENCH VERSION BELOW)

The Role

We're looking for a Senior Data Analytics Consultant who can bring clarity to complexity.

Our clients have no shortage of data. They have websites generating traffic, ad campaigns running across multiple platforms, CRMs collecting customer information, and dashboards that may or may not be telling the full story. What they need is someone who can connect the dots, build reliable measurement frameworks, and turn fragmented information into decision-making tools.

This is not a reporting role.

We're looking for someone who understands the entire analytics ecosystem-from data collection and governance to dashboard design and business insights. Someone who can audit a setup, identify what's missing, implement the right tracking structure, and build reporting environments that clients actually use.

You'll work alongside strategists, marketers, account teams, developers, and client stakeholders to create analytics infrastructures that are accurate, scalable, and easy to understand. Some engagements will involve building systems from scratch; others will require untangling years of accumulated technical debt.

This is a freelance consulting role with recurring project opportunities. Some mandates will be strategic and advisory in nature; others will require hands-on implementation across analytics, reporting, and data management platforms.

What You'll Own

  • Analytics Architecture: You design and implement measurement frameworks that provide a reliable foundation for reporting and decision-making.
  • Tracking & Data Collection: You audit, configure, and maintain analytics implementations across websites and digital properties, ensuring data is collected accurately and consistently.
  • Dashboard Development: You build dashboards that surface meaningful insights, not just metrics. Reports should help clients understand performance, identify opportunities, and make informed decisions.
  • Platform Integration: You connect data sources across analytics, advertising, CRM, and marketing platforms to create unified reporting environments.
  • Data Governance: You establish naming conventions, documentation standards, tracking plans, and processes that keep data clean and trustworthy over time.
  • Analytics Consulting: You help clients understand what they're measuring, why it matters, and where opportunities exist to improve performance.
  • Technical Troubleshooting: You identify gaps, inconsistencies, and implementation issues before they become reporting problems.
  • Internal Collaboration: You work closely with developers, strategists, marketers, and project teams to ensure analytics requirements are considered throughout the lifecycle of a project.

Must-Haves

  • Demonstrated experience designing and implementing analytics solutions for websites, marketing campaigns, and digital products
  • Advanced experience with Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
  • Strong expertise in Looker Studio and dashboard development
  • Experience integrating data from advertising platforms, CRM systems, marketing automation platforms, and other business tools
  • Strong understanding of event tracking, conversion measurement, attribution, and reporting methodologies
  • Experience conducting analytics audits and translating findings into actionable recommendations
  • Ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy
  • Comfortable working independently and providing strategic recommendations directly to clients

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with Google Tag Manager (GTM)
  • Experience with BigQuery and data warehousing environments
  • Knowledge of SQL and data transformation workflows
  • Experience integrating platforms such as HubSpot, Salesforce, Meta Ads, Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Shopify, or similar ecosystems
  • Experience building executive-level dashboards and KPI frameworks
  • Agency or consulting experience working across multiple clients and industries

What Success Looks Like

  • Clients trust their data because you've eliminated uncertainty around how it's collected, organized, and reported.
  • Dashboards become decision-making tools, not screenshots people glance at once a month.
  • Stakeholders can answer important business questions without digging through multiple platforms.
  • Tracking issues are identified before they impact reporting.
  • Data sources that once lived in silos are connected and working together.
  • Analytics setups are documented, scalable, and easy for teams to maintain.
  • Clients understand not only what happened, but why it happened and what to do next.
  • When a new campaign, platform, or website launches, measurement is already part of the plan-not an afterthought.

Engagement Details

  • Freelance / contract-based
  • Project-based engagements with potential for recurring consulting work
  • Remote-friendly
  • Flexible workload based on project requirements
  • Availability for occasional discovery sessions, audits, implementation projects, and ongoing analytics support

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Le role

Nous sommes a la recherche d'une consultante principale en analytique de donnees capable d'apporter de la clarte a la complexite.

Nos clients ne manquent pas de donnees. Ils ont des sites web qui generent du trafic, des campagnes publicitaires deployees sur plusieurs plateformes, des CRM qui accumulent de l'information client, et des tableaux de bord qui ne racontent pas toujours toute l'histoire. Ce dont ils ont besoin, c'est de quelqu'un capable de relier les points, de batir des structures de mesure fiables et de transformer des donnees dispersees en outils d'aide a la decision.

Ce n'est pas un role de production de rapports.

Nous recherchons une personne qui comprend l'ensemble de l'ecosysteme analytique, de la collecte des donnees a leur gouvernance, en passant par la conception de tableaux de bord et l'interpretation des resultats. Quelqu'un capable d'auditer un environnement existant, d'identifier les lacunes, de mettre en place les bons mecanismes de suivi et de construire des systemes de reporting que les clients utiliseront reellement.

Vous travaillerez aux cotes de strateges, specialistes marketing, developpeurs, gestionnaires de comptes et parties prenantes chez les clients afin de creer des infrastructures analytiques fiables, evolutives et faciles a comprendre. Certains mandats consisteront a batir des environnements a partir de zero; d'autres necessiteront de demeler des annees d'accumulation de dette technique et de pratiques disparates.

Il s'agit d'un role de consultante pigiste offrant des opportunites recurrentes de collaboration. Certains mandats seront davantage strategiques et consultatifs; d'autres necessiteront une implication directe dans l'implantation de solutions analytiques, de tableaux de bord et de processus de gestion des donnees.

Responsabilites

  • Architecture analytique : Vous concevez et mettez en place des cadres de mesure qui servent de fondation fiable a l'analyse de performance et a la prise de decision.
  • Collecte et suivi des donnees : Vous auditez, configurez et maintenez les implantations analytiques sur les sites web et proprietes numeriques afin d'assurer une collecte de donnees precise et coherente.
  • Developpement de tableaux de bord : Vous creez des tableaux de bord qui mettent en lumiere des informations utiles, et non seulement des metriques. Les rapports doivent aider les clients a comprendre leur performance, identifier des opportunites et prendre de meilleures decisions.
  • Integration des plateformes : Vous connectez les differentes sources de donnees provenant des outils analytiques, plateformes publicitaires, CRM et solutions marketing afin de creer des environnements de reporting unifies.
  • Gouvernance des donnees : Vous mettez en place des conventions de nomenclature, des plans de marquage, de la documentation et des processus qui assurent la qualite et la perennite des donnees.
  • Conseil en analytique : Vous accompagnez les clients dans la comprehension de leurs donnees, de leurs indicateurs de performance et des opportunites d'optimisation.
  • Resolution de problemes techniques : Vous identifiez les incoherences, erreurs de suivi et problemes d'implantation avant qu'ils n'affectent les rapports ou les decisions d'affaires.
  • Collaboration interne : Vous travaillez etroitement avec les developpeurs, strateges, specialistes marketing et equipes projets afin que les besoins analytiques soient pris en compte des le depart.

Profil recherche

  • Experience demontree dans la conception et l'implantation de solutions analytiques pour des sites web, campagnes marketing et produits numeriques
  • Expertise avancee de Google Analytics 4 (GA4)
  • Solide experience avec Looker Studio et la conception de tableaux de bord
  • Experience dans l'integration de donnees provenant de plateformes publicitaires, CRM, outils d'automatisation marketing et autres systemes d'affaires
  • Excellente comprehension du suivi des evenements, de la mesure des conversions, de l'attribution et des methodologies de reporting
  • Experience en audit analytique et capacite a transformer les constats en recommandations concretes
  • Capacite a vulgariser des concepts techniques aupres d'intervenants non techniques
  • Souci du detail et engagement envers l'exactitude des donnees
  • Autonomie et aisance a formuler des recommandations strategiques directement aupres des clients

Atouts

  • Experience avec Google Tag Manager (GTM)
  • Experience avec BigQuery ou des environnements d'entreposage de donnees
  • Connaissance du SQL et des processus de transformation de donnees
  • Experience avec des plateformes telles que HubSpot, Salesforce, Meta Ads, Google Ads, LinkedIn Ads, Shopify ou des ecosystemes similaires
  • Experience dans la creation de tableaux de bord executifs et de cadres de mesure de performance
  • Experience en agence ou en consultation aupres de multiples clients et secteurs d'activite

Indicateur de reussite

  • Les clients ont confiance en leurs donnees parce que vous avez elimine l'incertitude entourant leur collecte, leur organisation et leur interpretation.
  • Les tableaux de bord deviennent de veritables outils d'aide a la decision, et non des rapports consultes une fois par mois avant d'etre oublies.
  • Les parties prenantes peuvent repondre a des questions d'affaires importantes sans devoir naviguer entre plusieurs plateformes.
  • Les problemes de suivi sont detectes avant qu'ils n'affectent les resultats.
  • Des sources de donnees auparavant isolees fonctionnent desormais ensemble dans un environnement coherent.
  • Les infrastructures analytiques sont documentees, evolutives et faciles a maintenir.
  • Les clients comprennent non seulement ce qui s'est produit, mais aussi pourquoi cela s'est produit et quelles actions entreprendre ensuite.
  • Lorsqu'un nouveau site, une nouvelle campagne ou une nouvelle plateforme est lance, la mesure de performance fait deja partie du plan plutot que d'etre ajoutee a la derniere minute.

Modalites de collaboration

  • Contrat pigiste / travail a la pige
  • Mandats ponctuels avec possibilite de collaboration recurrente
  • Teletravail
  • Charge de travail flexible selon les besoins des projets
  • Disponibilite pour des ateliers de decouverte, audits, projets d'implantation et accompagnement analytique continu
Employment Type: CONTRACTOR