Senior Manager of AI and Data Platforms

4 weeks ago

Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada Wave HQ Full time

We're seeking a seasoned leader to spearhead our AI and data platform efforts at Wave HQ. As Senior Manager of AI and Data Platforms, you'll be responsible for driving the development and optimization of our secure, scalable AI and data platform, ensuring seamless data ingestion, data lake management, and AI/ML infrastructure on AWS.

About the Role

This role requires a deep understanding of data platforms, DataOps, and AI/ML infrastructure. You'll lead a team of Data Engineers and ML Engineers, driving the development, deployment, and monitoring of AI models and a modern CDC-based data stack. Additionally, you'll implement DataOps practices to streamline and automate data workflows, ensuring data quality, lineage, and availability across the platform.

Key Responsibilities

  • AI and Data Platform Evolution: Lead the development and optimization of our AI and data platform, ensuring seamless data ingestion, data lake management, and AI/ML infrastructure on AWS.
  • DataOps Implementation: Implement DataOps practices to automate and optimize data workflows, ensuring data quality, lineage, and availability across the platform.
  • Architectural Oversight: Continuously evolve our data, DataOps, and AI/ML architecture by reviewing, recommending, and implementing changes, integrating new tools, and ensuring thorough documentation.
  • AI Model Management: Oversee the full lifecycle of ML models, including training, deployment, monitoring, and optimization, while managing our portfolio of generative AI applications.
  • Data and AI Integrity: Ensure data and AI model quality, lineage, and integrity across the platform through robust systems and processes.
  • Project Management: Lead the team in scoping, prioritizing, and executing data and AI projects, setting clear goals, tracking progress, and removing obstacles.
  • Mentorship and Best Practices: Mentor the team in best practices for data engineering and AI/ML operations, conducting regular 1-on-1s, setting goals, and holding the team accountable.
  • Stakeholder Management: Represent the team with confidence and transparency, managing relationships across all data and AI functions.

You Thrive Here By Possessing the Following:

  • 7+ years in data and AI/ML, including 5+ years in data platform architecture (data pipelines, governance, and architecture).
  • 5+ years managing teams of data and/or AI/ML professionals, with a track record of leading cross-functional teams and complex projects.
  • Advanced SQL skills for querying large, complex datasets.
  • Proficient in Python, with experience in data frame-based libraries (Pandas, Dask, Polars) and AI/ML libraries (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn).
  • Strong understanding of DataOps practices, including automated data pipelines, data quality monitoring, and CI/CD for data.
  • Solid grasp of MLOps practices, including CI/CD for AI/ML and maintaining evolving data and AI system architectures.
  • Familiar with data pipeline tools like Kafka, dbtCloud, Terraform, and Kubernetes.
  • Expertise in DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform HCL.
  • Experienced in Agile team leadership using Scrum, with skills in sprint performance reporting, backlog grooming, and alignment with OKRs and KPIs.
  • Effective communicator, able to convey complex technical matters visually and verbally.
  • Proactive, autonomous project manager with a strong ability to partner with business and engineering stakeholders from ideation to execution.

Nice to Have:

  • Generative AI Expertise: Expertise in generative AI, including understanding key techniques and applications.
  • RAG, LLM, and Agentic Patterns: Familiarity with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Large Language Model (LLM) fine-tuning, and agentic GenAI patterns.
  • AWS Bedrock and LangChain: Experience deploying and managing generative AI with AWS Bedrock, LangChain, or similar platforms.
  • Data Privacy and Compliance: Experience implementing data privacy and compliance solutions, especially with AI Management Systems like ISO 42001.
  • Third-Party Tools: Experience with Stitch, Segment, and integrating third-party data tools into platforms.
  • Cross-Industry Experience: Knowledge or experience in Payroll, Banking, Fintech, Payments Processing, or Accounting industries where data and AI/ML are critical.
  • Data Product Management: Experience managing data product lifecycles, including versioning, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

Work From Where You Work Best: We will always have a welcoming, energizing, and world-class office (in Toronto) with a space for you. Or, if you're more comfortable working from home, the choice is yours.

We Take Care of the Fundamentals: Fair compensation, all the office perks you'd want, and the various goodies you'd expect from a growing tech company.

We've been continuously recognized as one of Canada's Top Ten Most Admired Corporate Cultures and one of Canada's Great Places to Work in categories including Technology, Millennials, Mental Health, Inclusion, and Women.

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