Technical Lead, Data

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About the role

  • Technical Lead owning pipelines, workflows, and data services for CapIntel’s wealth-management software platform. Leading data engineers while improving reliability, onboarding, observability, and financial-data capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Lead a team of data engineers day to day, deliberately matching people to work and planning capacity
  • Grow ownership and technical leadership across the team
  • Run performance management with clear expectations and timely actions
  • Hire, onboard, and ramp new engineers
  • Own the architecture and health of the Data platform, including serverless services, batch and streaming pipelines, legacy pipelines, search indexes, and durable workflow orchestration
  • Drive evolution toward enterprise-grade data architecture, including data contracts, lineage, data quality checks, and DataOps practices
  • Build proactive monitoring of data flows to identify quality issues before clients or advisors see them
  • Formalize incident response, on-call expectations, runbooks, severity classification, incident communication, and blameless post-incident reviews
  • Maintain quality through design reviews, code reviews, testing discipline, and a shared definition of done
  • Own client data onboarding and implementation work for the Data team
  • Partner with Product to translate client and advisor needs into data capabilities
  • Contribute hands-on code, especially for new systems, high-risk changes, and reference implementations
  • Measure and communicate team outcomes such as reliability, data quality, onboarding time, and delivery predictability
  • Coach other teams on workflow, observability, and data patterns
  • Use AI tooling in development, review, and internal knowledge workflows, and help define safe AI use on financial data

Requirements

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 4 years focused on data engineering, data platforms, or ETL in production
  • 2+ years leading engineers as a team lead or tech lead, including hiring, performance management, and growing others into technical leadership
  • Deep, current Node.js and TypeScript experience
  • Deep experience designing and operating data pipelines on AWS, including serverless architectures
  • Hands-on production experience with Temporal.io or a comparable durable workflow orchestration platform
  • Strong SQL and experience with relational databases and search technologies, such as PostgreSQL and OpenSearch or Elasticsearch
  • Track record of building observability into data systems, including structured logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting
  • Experience leading incident response and running post-incident reviews that lead to lasting fixes
  • Evidence of delegation, ownership, and building a self-sufficient team
  • Experience making engineering outcomes measurable and visible to non-technical stakeholders
  • Composure under pressure
  • Python experience is welcome as an addition
  • Experience with financial instrument or market data and reconciliation challenges is a bonus
  • Experience in a regulated industry and familiarity with data privacy obligations such as PIPEDA is a bonus
  • Experience with DataOps practices, data contracts, data lineage, or data quality frameworks is a bonus
  • Experience using AI-assisted development tools or building AI tools over internal data is a bonus
  • Familiarity with Datadog or similar observability platforms is a bonus

Benefits

  • Variable pay may be included depending on the role
  • Equity may be included depending on the role
  • Comprehensive benefits
  • Flexible time off
  • Dedicated opportunities for growth and development
  • Perks and benefits designed to support growth and well-being
  • Trust, respect, and collaboration-focused work environment

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

CA$145,000 - CA$170,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSElasticSearchETLJavaScriptNode.jsPostgresPythonSQLTypeScript

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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