Director Application, Data & Integration Job Category : Digital Business Services

Requisition Number : DIREC001155

Posted : October 19, 2026 Full-Time On-site

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Description Director, Application, Data & Integration

Salary Range:

$159,000 - $215,000/year

Ready to take the next step in your career with a firm that values innovation, collaboration, continuous improvement, and delivering exceptional client experiences?

Smythe LLP is seeking an experienced and strategic

Director, Application, Data & Integration

to join our growing Digital Business Services (DBS) team. This is an exceptional opportunity for a technology leader who is passionate about building modern application, data, and integration capabilities while helping shape the future of technology across the firm.

This role is based in our Vancouver office, with the opportunity to work in a hybrid environment following the completion of the probationary period.

The Opportunity

The Director, Application, Data & Integration is responsible for building and leading Smythe’s enterprise application, data and integration capabilities.

The role provides technical leadership across the firm’s application landscape and establishes the engineering disciplines required to deliver secure, reliable and maintainable solutions. A key mandate is to transform how the development team works through AI-assisted engineering, automation and modern DevOps practices, driving significant improvements in development productivity and delivery speed.

The Director will also build Smythe’s data engineering and analytics capabilities and lead the integration architecture that connects the firm’s core systems.



This is a capability-building leadership role supporting Smythe’s Connected Firm strategy and continued technology modernization.

In This Role, You Will

Application Strategy & Architecture

Provide technical leadership and architecture oversight across Smythe’s enterprise application landscape.

Establish application architecture, development and lifecycle standards.

Guide solution design for new applications and major enhancements.

Partner with Product Owners to translate business requirements into sustainable technical solutions.

Provide technical oversight of implementation partners and third-party development resources.

Engineering Discipline, DevOps & AI-Assisted Development

Build and mature Smythe’s software engineering practices, including development standards, source control, code review, testing and documentation.

Establish CI/CD, setting and release-management capabilities to enable controlled and repeatable deployments.

Embed application security and secure development practices throughout the software development lifecycle.

Lead adoption of AI-assisted development across the engineering team to accelerate development, testing, documentation and delivery.

Drive significant, multi-fold improvements in engineering productivity while maintaining appropriate security, quality and human oversight.





Strengthen automated testing, application monitoring and overall technical quality.

Integration & Connected Firm Architecture

Own Smythe’s integration architecture and technical integration standards.

Establish consistent approaches for APIs, interfaces and system-to-system data exchange.

Ensure integrations across the application landscape are secure, resilient, supportable and appropriately monitored.

Maintain an architectural view of how applications, integrations and data work together to support the Connected Firm.

Dynamics & DPO Technical Leadership

Provide technical leadership for Smythe’s transition to Dynamics 365 Project Operations and the broader Dynamics platform.

Work with Product Owners and implementation partners on architecture, integration and technical design.

Build sufficient internal capability to support, maintain and extend the platform over time.

Ensure Dynamics development follows Smythe’s engineering, security and application-management standards.

Data Management, Engineering & Analytics

Develop Smythe’s enterprise data architecture and technical data-management approach.

Build data engineering capabilities to integrate, transform and make trusted data available across the firm.

Establish approaches for master data, data quality, lineage and technical data controls.

Build and lead the firm’s emerging data engineering and data analytics capabilities.

Enable consistent enterprise reporting and analytics.

Partner with Product Owners and business stakeholders on data ownership and governance.

People & Capability Le

📌 Director Application, Data (Vancouver)
🏢 Smythe
📍 Vancouver