Director, Technical Solutions - Database Engineering

Permanent Full Time 

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Canada Life is seeking Director of Data Engineering, who will be tasked to grow a team of data engineers and partner with stakeholders to build out the data foundations. This is an opportunity to use your engineering skills to lead a team of data engineers to design and deliver solutions for our business lines. You’ll be responsible for strategic and operational leadership within data and across the engineering leadership team. Success in this role looks like leading the team to provide unique solutions for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources by bringing tactics that enable flow of data across the company in a highly complex and regulated environment.

What you will do:

• Recruit and develop talent for rapidly growing data and platform engineering teams  
• Foster an inclusive culture of innovation, collaboration, strong ownership, and continuous improvement  
• Collaborate with and influence leadership to directly impact company strategy and direction
• Develop deep partnerships with engineering and product teams to deliver on major cross-functional measurements and testing
• Communicate effectively to all levels of the organization, including executives
• Design a data engineering roadmap and execute the vision behind it
• Establish a customer-centric approach and synthesize customer needs
• Own end-to-end pipelines and destinations for the transfer and storage of all data
• Manage 3rd-party resources and critical data integration vendors
• Ensure governance, privacy and compliance standards are met by teams maintaining the Data Platform   

What will you bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related field
• 10+ years in software/data engineering, with at least 5 years in leadership roles.  
• Proven track record of building, scaling and supporting Data Platforms
• Experience leading and setting priorities for large, multi-disciplinary engineering teams
• Experience creating large-scale data engineering pipelines, data-based decision-making and quantitative analysis tools and software
• Experience with CICD, data architectures, pipelines, quality, and code management
• Experience with complex, high volume, multi-dimensional data, as well as machine learning models based on unstructured, structured, and streaming datasets
• Experience with DB2, Oracle, SQL and NoSQL databases
• Proven track record of identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks for production systems
• Proven design skills in data engineering
• Experience with common data languages and warehouses is an asset

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The base salary for this position is between $120,000.00 - $160,000.00 annually. This represents base salary only and does not represent other variable compensation components of our total compensation ( i.e. annual bonus, commission etc). If you are selected to move forward in our recruitment process, your recruiter will be able to discuss additional details of our total rewards program with you.

Career opportunities will be open a minimum of 5 business days from the date of posting, closing dates will vary depending on the search activity. All applications received will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Grow with Canada Life 

We’re united by a shared purpose: to improve the financial, physical and mental well-being of Canadians. Our company is trusted by 1 in 3 Canadians and contributes to the strength of communities across the country.  

We’re looking for people who live our values everyday: we step up, we do the right thing, and we deliver – for our customers, communities and each other. Are you someone who always strives to do the right thing, who steps up for themselves and others, and who delivers with impact? Then we want to hear from you! 

What we offer:  

We’re committed to supporting our employees through every stage of their career. Here’s what you can expect as a full-time or part-time permanent team member: 

• Career Development: Opportunities for career advancement, access to industry-leading learning programs and up to $2,000 annually towards education reimbursement. 

• Health & Wellness: Flexible health and dental benefits, plus a $5,000 mental health benefit to support your well-being. 

• Time Off: In addition to regular vacation and personal days, we support community involvement with a volunteer day.  

• Financial Security: Company-matching pension plan, share ownership program and additional investment options. 

• Rewards and Recognition: Employee recognition programs, service milestone celebrations, employee discounts and more!  
• Emphasis on Community: We provide a workplace where employees feel connected and supported through Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), mentorship programs, social clubs and events.  

Learn more about Canada Life.  

We’re committed to removing barriers and ensuring equal access to employment. Applicants requiring reasonable accommodation during the application process may contact  talentacquisitioncanada@canadalife.com. All information provided will be handled in accordance with applicable laws and Canada Life policies.  

Canada Life would like to thank all applicants, however only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted. 

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