Vice President, Data Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Define and implement PICTON’s enterprise data strategy, architecture, and roadmap encompassing Databricks, Snowflake, APIs, applications, analytics, and AI.

• Create a scalable architecture that balances performance, security, cost, and business requirements.

• Develop a contemporary data platform that facilitates portfolio construction, performance analysis, risk management, analytics, and AI applications.

• Oversee the design of dependable, scalable pipelines for market, security, portfolio, and historical data.

• Set standards for data quality, lineage, governance, security, and ownership.

• Advance financial data models and semantic layers to generate consistent, reusable data across products and teams.

• Ensure data accessibility through APIs, applications, analytics, and AI/LLM solutions.

• Build and manage a high-performing Data Engineering and Data Platform team.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Investment, Product, and AI leaders to transform business requirements into effective data solutions.

• Identify opportunities to utilize modern data and AI technologies for gaining a competitive edge.

• Articulate complex technical ideas to both technical and business stakeholders.

• Provide a reliable, scalable data foundation that promotes faster innovation, enhanced investment capabilities, and sustainable competitive advantage.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, architecture, or technology leadership.

• Significant experience in team leadership.

• Extensive expertise with modern cloud data platforms, especially Databricks, Snowflake, SQL, APIs, and distributed data pipelines.

• Comprehensive understanding of financial/investment data, including securities, portfolios, market data, performance, risk, and time-series data.

• Proven experience in developing data platforms that cater to analytics, applications, and AI/LLM workloads.

• Strong grasp of data governance, quality, lineage, security, and ownership.

• Ability to navigate between strategic planning and technical specifics, making practical architecture decisions.

• Strong business insight along with exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Demonstrated capability to build, cultivate, and lead high-performing technical teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive total rewards.

• Performance-based bonuses.

• Clear career advancement opportunities.

• Corporate fitness reimbursement and discounts.

• VersaFi memberships (previously Women in Capital Markets).

• Picton investment counseling and portfolio management services.

• Volunteer and charitable contribution matching.

• Maternity and parental leave top-up.

• Recognition awards.

• Semi-annual performance bonuses.

• Generous annual vacation allowance (minimum of 15 days per year).

• Training and development reimbursement.

• Comprehensive health and dental benefits.

• Healthcare spending account.