Director, Data Engineering

Responsibilities: Provide leadership, support, and mentorship to a small team, ensuring their professional and technical growth. Collaborate effectively with leadership at all levels and contribute towards Data Engineering strategy and direction. Design and develop new techniques and data pipelines to enable various insights for internal and external clients within market research. Improve our infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources. Optimise data delivery and re-design infrastructure for greater scalability. Develop sound relationships with technical teams across the organisation to deliver on major cross-functional measurements and testing. Support the team with their plans to transition to a Databricks environment in the future. Skills you will bring with you: BA or MA in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related subject. 5+ years in a leadership position, supporting and coaching others in a technical environment. 5+ years of demonstrable experience working in Data Engineering. Hands-on experience in Databricks is essential; Certifications would be advantageous. Expert in Microsoft SQL Server. Fluent in a common data language(s) such as Python. Experience designing and developing data lakes, data warehouses, ETL, and task orchestrating systems. Experience creating, testing, and supporting production software and systems. Experience creating large-scale data engineering pipelines, data-based decision-making, and quantitative analysis tools and software. Role Description: Kynetec is seeking an experienced Data Engineering leader who specializes in Microsoft SQL Server and Azure Databricks! You will be responsible for the day-to-day management of our Data Engineering Team in North America and will support our client-facing teams to optimize Kynetec’s data production and remain the first choice for our clients. This role is full-time, permanent, and located in Canada. This position is remote, with a requirement to travel occasionally throughout the year for team meetings. #J-18808-Ljbffr