Gestionnaire senior des données/Senior Manager, Data Engineering

Accountabilities

• • Lead and mentor a team of data engineers while remaining actively involved in technical architecture, design decisions, engineering discussions, and career development.
  • Define the architectural vision for a large-scale Databricks lakehouse using technologies such as Spark, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog.
  • Own the technical roadmap and ongoing evolution of the data platform, working closely with architects, product managers, business stakeholders, and other technical teams.
  • Balance the delivery of new platform capabilities with technical debt reduction, scalability, maintainability, and long-term engineering priorities.
  • Establish rigorous standards for data quality and reliability, including automated testing, validation frameworks, data quality SLAs, CI/CD, monitoring, and observability.
  • Drive a strong operational excellence culture through incident management, on-call ownership, blameless root cause analysis, and proactive reliability improvements.
  • Lead the responsible adoption of AI-assisted development, testing, and operational practices, scaling effective approaches across the data engineering organization.
  • Support the professional growth of engineers by providing regular coaching, feedback, mentorship, and opportunities to expand their technical and leadership capabilities.

  Requirements

  • Proven and extensive experience in data engineering, combined with strong expertise in data architecture and the ability to design and justify large-scale lakehouse and distributed data systems.
  • Previous experience managing and developing an engineering team, with a strong track record of coaching technical talent and supporting career progression.
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks, including Spark, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog, as well as strong proficiency in Python and SQL.
  • Experience working with cloud environments such as AWS or Azure and building reliable, scalable data platforms in production.
  • Significant experience implementing automated pipeline testing, data validation, CI/CD, monitoring, observability, and other data quality practices within demanding SaaS environments.
  • Strong operational and incident management experience, including on-call ownership, service-level agreements, root cause analysis, and measurable reliability improvements.
  • Demonstrated ability to adopt and scale AI tools within engineering workflows, using them responsibly to improve development, testing, and operational efficiency.
  • Strong communication, stakeholder management, technical leadership, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, architecture, and business functions.
  • Fluency in French is required for permanent positions in Quebec to support communication with colleagues, partners, and suppliers in the province.
  • Fluency in English is also required to collaborate with colleagues, customers, and partners primarily located outside Quebec and to understand technical and scientific documentation.

  Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits, life and disability insurance, and fertility and family-forming support programs.
  • Generous paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, quarterly self-care days, and designated no-meeting days.
  • Tuition and reading reimbursement programs supporting continuous learning and professional development.
  • Wellness resources, including a global wellness program, confidential Employee Assistance Program, and one-to-one wellness coaching.
  • Employee Resource Groups, charitable initiatives, and matching programs designed to strengthen connection and community impact.
  • Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) to support long-term financial planning.
  • Gym reimbursement programs and access to telemedicine services.
  • Performance bonus opportunities recognizing individual impact and contributions.
  • Monthly remote work stipend to help support home-office expenses.
  • Flexible work environment designed to support productivity and well-being while enabling collaboration across distributed teams.
  • French-language training available for permanent Quebec employees who need additional support developing their French proficiency.