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 (Winnipeg)
🏢 Social Leverage
📍 Winnipeg