Director of Data Engineering
Summary
Director-level leader who owns Alpaca's data engineering strategy and roadmap on-site in Canada, managing leads and delivering data platforms for Finance, Sales, Product, Compliance, and Customer Success, while staying hands-on with Python, SQL, dbt, cloud infrastructure, and AI-powered analytics in financial systems.
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.