Director of Data Engineering leading end-to-end data organization at 73 Strings. Building scalable data platforms and driving AI-led innovation in a FinTech powerhouse.
Responsibilities
Define and execute the company’s multi-year data strategy, roadmap, and target data architecture.
Build, scale, and lead high-performing teams across data science, ML engineering, data engineering, analytics, and data governance.
Establish organisation-wide standards for data quality, consistency, access, and governance.
Work with product and engineering to enable data driven product decisions and build end-to-end data platform
Architect scalable, secure, and high-performance data platforms and pipelines.
Oversee ingestion, modelling, transformation, and orchestration of structured and unstructured data.
Ensure modern data stack best practices (e.g., warehouse/lakehouse, orchestration, feature stores, catalogues, ML pipelines).
Optimize and transform data for low latency delivery to client facing applications (web, Excel etc.).
Lead development, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management of ML models.
Partner with product teams to embed ML features into customer-facing products.
Enable AI innovation with modern data and machine learning infrastructure.
Oversee creation of dashboards, metrics frameworks, and analytical tools that empower teams across the business.
Ensure analytics output is accurate, trustworthy, and tied to business outcomes.
Partner with finance, sales, and leadership on forecasting, performance analysis, and strategic planning.
Implement data governance practices including access control, metadata management, and lineage.
Drive data quality programs with automated monitoring and remediation processes.
Requirements
Proven experience building, leading, and scaling multi-disciplinary data teams of 10+ members across data engineering, analytics, and machine learning functions.
Deep expertise in modern data architecture, cloud data platforms, and scalable pipelines.
Proven leadership experience managing multi-disciplinary data teams.
Demonstrated success within innovative, product-led technology companies, ideally operating in data-intensive or regulated domains.
Experience implementing data governance, data quality frameworks, and operational data processes.
Strong business acumen with ability to translate complex data into strategic, actionable insights.
Excellent communication skills and ability to influence senior leadership.
Benefits
Culture of innovation and collaboration
Empowerment and continuous learning for team members
Senior Data Engineer building trusted Snowflake data products for Granum’s landscaper and arborist software ecosystem. Operating governed pipelines that power analytics, AI, and operational decisions.
Data Engineer building Azure ETL/ELT pipelines and governed data architecture for Manulife’s financial services business. Supporting scalable analytics, automation, and operational excellence.
Data Engineer building Azure ETL/ELT pipelines and governed data architecture for Manulife, an international financial services provider. Improving data integration, automation, and platform efficiency.
Data Engineer building ETL pipelines and analytics infrastructure for CAE’s simulation and training solutions. Supporting data quality, modelling, dashboards, and reporting across multidisciplinary teams.
Senior Data Engineer building scalable pipelines and AI - ready infrastructure for CINC Systems’ community association management software. Enabling reliable analytics, automation, and intelligent product experiences.
Senior Data Engineer building AWS, Snowflake, Python, PySpark, and SQL data products for Sun Life’s Canadian financial - services business. Enabling analytics, data science, governance, and client insights.
AWS Data Engineer needed for 12+ month contract in Toronto. Lead design of cloud - native data pipelines, mentor engineers, and drive data quality and cost optimization.
Hiring a Test Data Management (TDM) contractor for a long - term hybrid role in Toronto. Requires strong TDM experience, Delphix, and Java; Python is a plus.
Senior Data Engineer building AWS/GCP data infrastructure for Ready’s broadband monitoring and BEAD programs. Developing reliable pipelines, data quality systems, and AI - enabled workflows.
Seeking an experienced Data Architect to design scalable data solutions for enterprise environments. Expertise in Data Architecture and Cloud - Based Data Analytics required.