Director of Data Engineering

2 days ago

Remote, Canada Social Leverage LLC Full-time

Direct Alpaca’s data engineering organization on-site, combining Python, SQL, cloud infrastructure, and leadership across critical financial systems.

This Director-level leader will own data strategy, execution, and roadmap for a department serving Finance, Sales, Product, Compliance, and Customer Success. You will balance operational delivery with self-service analytics, AI-powered analytics, and enterprise search. The role remains hands-on enough for architecture decisions, technical reviews, and executive representation.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage leads, establish priorities, and deliver platform initiatives
  • Make build-versus-buy decisions for data tooling
  • Translate business needs into scalable data products
  • Enable semantic layers, catalogues, and conversational BI
  • Manage infrastructure costs as assets under custody grow

Requirements:

  • Eight-plus years of data engineering experience
  • Three-plus years managing leads and individual contributors
  • Deep modern data stack experience with dbt and query engines
  • Financial data experience in fintech or financial services
  • Strong executive stakeholder management and architecture judgment

Bring data engineering leadership, financial systems experience, and cloud expertise to Alpaca’s globally distributed platform organization.

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