Director of Data Engineering

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About the role

  • 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.
  • Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory frameworks (GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2, etc.).
  • 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

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Cloud

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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