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Senior Engineering Manager - Analytics Platform

Kitchener-Waterloo, ONFull-time$191k–$262k2026-10-27 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Lead the Analytics Platform team to build data warehousing, ETL pipelines, medallion datasets, and AI-powered analytics tools that enable data-driven decisions across the company.

Role type

Senior Engineering Manager (Analytics Platform)

Builds

Data foundation including data warehouses, pipelines, medallion datasets, BI tooling, and agentic analytics tools

Domain

Retail technology / Data Engineering / Analytics

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Engineering leadership, data platform architecture, data warehousing, ETL/ELT pipelines, Python, SQL, cost optimization, AI/LLM tooling, team mentorship

Preferred skills

Snowflake experience, leading through other managers, postgraduate degree in CS/Data Science

Technologies

Kotlin, Python, SQL, AWS, Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Flink, Kafka, Fivetran, MySQL, CockroachDB, Mode, Claude Cowork, Codex, Cursor

Responsibilities

Manage and mentor a team of 8 engineers, set technical vision and roadmap for the analytics platform, balance near-term needs with long-term investments, ensure data integrity and cost efficiency, build AI/LLM-powered automation, partner with cross-functional teams, triage production issues, dive into architecture and code, manage vendor relationships, and drive hiring.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC manager