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About the Role

Caseware is seeking a Principal Software Developer – AI Data Architect to drive the technical vision and architectural strategy of Caseware’s AI-Ready Data Platform. This role will define the enterprise data architecture, patterns, and modeling standards that deliver trusted, governed, high-quality data products forming a foundational data platform for our cloud offerings, enabling AI capabilities and secure interoperability with customer systems, while powering analytics and strengthening our core products. This role requires hands-on experience delivering data for AI workflows and practical familiarity with modern LLM tooling and AI platform integration patterns. You will apply this experience to build a data foundation that supports AI workflows and agentic capabilities, analytics, and customer interoperability. This is a key leadership role where you will act as a hands-on architect while mentoring the development team, guiding the long-term technical vision, shaping enterprise data architecture standards across teams, and contributing to crucial AI and data platform projects.

Responsibilities

Lead AI-Ready Data Platform architecture and delivery, defining and executing the technical strategy for a scalable AI-Ready data platform, including patterns and capabilities for AI use cases and interoperability.
Establish data architecture patterns, creating and evolving reference architectures, modeling standards, guardrails, and best practices for the foundational data platform.
Oversee key platform projects, contributing heavily to AI-Ready data platform initiatives and cross-product data architecture improvements.
Mentor and lead teams in project delivery, fostering a mentorship culture and ensuring adherence to high standards in data engineering practices, data modeling, data quality, and platform architecture.
Drive best practices by collaborating with R&D groups to implement best practices for making data AI-Ready and securely interoperable.
Partner on data governance and security, working with Security and product teams to define data classification, retention, tenant isolation, and access controls for AI-Ready datasets and data products.
Enable adoption through paved roads by providing reference implementations and blueprints.
Architect for data observability, defining and implementing standards for data quality, lineage and traceability, data dictionary controls, freshness monitoring, and alerting.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in software development and data engineering, with at least 5 years in a senior technical leadership role, preferably as a Principal Developer or Data Architect.
Demonstrated experience architecting and enabling data for AI workflows in production.
Experience with AI platform integration and orchestration patterns.
Familiarity with LangGraph, Langfuse, MCP, AWS Bedrock, AWS AgentCore, and LaunchDarkly is preferred.
Experience enabling secure interoperability patterns with customer AI systems.
Experience defining AI and data governance and platform adoption standards in large organizations.
Experience designing modern data platforms on cloud-native infrastructure (AWS preferred).
Hands-on experience with core data technologies and integration patterns.
Postgres, pgvector, and Kafka or Pub/Sub are an asset.
Hands-on experience with AWS data platform services.
Proven ability to architect and deliver scalable, reliable data systems and product data architectures.
Proficiency in data movement and performance architecture.
Strong technical leadership experience.
Experience working with DevOps teams, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and operational tooling.

Skills

AI-Ready Data Platform
Data Architecture
LLM tooling
AI platform integration
Data governance
Data quality
Data modeling
Medallion architecture
Lakehouse architecture
Data ingestion
Data normalization
AI interoperability
Data classification
Data retention
Tenant isolation
Access controls
Data observability
Data lineage
Data traceability
Data dictionary
Freshness monitoring
Alerting
Cloud-native infrastructure
AWS
ETL/ELT pipelines
Spark
Trino
MapReduce
MongoDB
Amazon DocumentDB
MS SQL Server
DynamoDB
AWS ElastiCache for Redis
Valkey
SNS/SQS
Postgres
pgvector
Kafka
Pub/Sub
S3
S3 Express
Athena
Glue Catalog
Lake Formation
OpenSearch Serverless
S3 Vector Storage
Iceberg
Lambda
Step Functions
EKS
ETL on EMR
EMR Serverless
Data contracts
Data domain taxonomy
Schema versioning
Event versioning
Replication
Event sourcing
CDC/change tracking
DevOps
CI/CD pipelines
Infrastructure-as-code

Location

Toronto, ON

Work Type

Hybrid
Full-time
Permanent

Experience Level

Principal
Senior technical leadership
10+ years of experience
5+ years in a senior technical leadership role

Benefits

Competitive compensation
Competitive salary
Comprehensive benefits
Health insurance
Retirement plans
Flexible work options
Remote opportunities
Generous time-off policies
Recognition programs
Performance bonuses
Opportunities for career growth

About the Company

Caseware is one of Canada's original Fintech companies, having led the global audit and accounting software industry for over 30 years, with more than 500,000 users across 130 countries and available in 16 different languages.
Caseware's cutting-edge software products are meticulously designed for accounting firms, corporations, and governments.
With a customer-focused mindset, we are building technology that is shaping what the future of audits, financial reporting, and financial data analytics will look like.
With a recent strategic investment from Hg Capital in 2020, Caseware is now in its next major growth phase as we double down on the people and products that have made Caseware so successful to date.

Equal Opportunity

One of Caseware's core values is Many Voices, One Team and with that in mind, we're dedicated to building teams as diverse as our customers in an equitable and inclusive way. We welcome and encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. Should you require accommodations or have any questions at any point during the application or interview process, please e-mail our People Operations team at talent@caseware.com.