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
- Robust executive stakeholder management and architecture judgment Bring data engineering leadership, financial systems experience, and cloud expertise to Alpaca’s globally distributed platform organization.

📌 Director of Data Engineering (Canada)
🏢 Social Leverage
📍 Canada