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Engineering Director to support client within investment management industry

Toronto, ON
  • To be discussed
  • Permanent job

  • Published since 5 day(s)

  • 1 position to fill as soon as possible

Location: Toronto, ON

Hybrid: 4 days/week onsite

Hours: 37.5


Day-to-Day (D2D)
  • Define and drive architecture across multiple platforms and teams
  • Act as a technical leader/influencer (no direct reports)
  • Lead end-to-end delivery of complex, cloud-native projects
  • Partner with senior engineers on design + technical decisions
  • Stay hands-on with coding/design when needed
  • Improve and scale engineering standards, DevOps practices, and delivery
  • Drive system design incorporating AI/ML
  • Operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
  • Influence teams and stakeholders across the organization

Must-Haves
  • Director-level / Principal IC experience (senior technical leadership without managing people)
  • Strong expertise in:
  • Cloud-native architecture
  • Distributed systems design
  • Enterprise-level system design
  • Proven ability to:
  • Lead large-scale projects end-to-end
  • Influence without authority
  • Mentor senior engineers
  • Hands-on technical capability (not just strategy)
  • Experience improving engineering standards and DevOps maturity
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible)
  • Comfortable working in:
  • Ambiguity
  • High ownership environments
  • Fast-paced orgs

Plusses (Nice-to-Haves)
  • Domain experience in:
  • Private markets / credit investments (ideal)
  • OR capital markets / investment banking
  • OR fintech / broader financial services
  • Experience with AI/ML systems and applications
  • Background from:
  • Fintech companies (e.g., Wealthsimple, Shopify, Questrade)
  • Asset managers / institutional investors
  • Experience driving enterprise-wide engineering transformation


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