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About the Role

The Associate Director, Data Engineer designs, builds, and operates enterprise-grade data platforms that deliver trusted, well-governed data across SickKids Foundation. The role will help establish and evolve a production-grade cloud platform using medallion architecture principles, with a focus on reliability, data quality, cost efficiency, and scalable delivery. As a senior hands-on technical contributor, you will set engineering standards, support platform incident response, enable self-serve analytics and AI-powered data products, and provide specialized technical guidance to data and analytics partners across the Foundation.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate enterprise-grade data engineering platforms using modern cloud technologies such as Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, and Databricks, aligned to bronze, silver, and gold medallion architecture principles.
Build and maintain robust, idempotent ETL/ELT pipelines with embedded validation, data quality checks, clear lineage, and repeatable delivery workflows.
Design data models and semantic layers that make trusted data accessible for analytics, reporting, and self-serve business intelligence.
Establish platform observability through query profiling, cost attribution, utilization metrics, alerting, and SLO/SLA monitoring; lead day-to-day response to data availability and performance incidents.
Define and enforce coding standards, CI/CD patterns, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices to support consistent, secure, and scalable platform deployment.
Partner with business stakeholders, Data & Analytics, IT/Infrastructure, and Security teams to translate requirements into reliable platform capabilities and support appropriate access, governance, and compliance.
Enable AI and advanced analytics use cases, including natural-language querying and AI-powered data products, by partnering with stakeholders to identify and deliver high-value opportunities.
Stay current with developments in cloud data platforms, AI, and emerging engineering practices, bringing relevant advancements into the platform roadmap and providing technical guidance to analysts, BI developers, and engineering partners.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
5-7 years of hands-on data engineering or platform engineering experience, ideally spanning the full lifecycle of architecting, building, and operating production data platforms.
Deep technical expertise with modern cloud data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, or Databricks and strong knowledge of medallion/lakehouse architecture.
Strong data modelling and database design skills for analytics and business consumption, including dimensional modelling and semantic layers for self-serve BI.
Hands-on experience developing production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines and working with data quality, governance, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
Experience establishing observability, performance monitoring, reliability standards, and incident-response practices in production data environments.
Working knowledge of AI and advanced analytics tooling, including approaches that support natural-language querying and AI-powered data products.
Strong technical judgment, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholder groups.
Knowledge of foundational data domains, business processes, and enterprise applications is an asset.

Skills

Microsoft Fabric
Snowflake
Databricks
Medallion architecture
ETL/ELT pipelines
Data modelling
Database design
CI/CD
Infrastructure-as-Code
AI
Advanced analytics

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Permanent Full-Time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Associate Director
5-7 years

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Salary/Compensations

$99,297 - $124,121
Maximum of $142,739 with demonstrated experience and proficiency.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefit package
Flex benefit plan
Tuition reimbursement
Flexible work arrangements
Pension plan
Birth parent/parental top up

About the Company

SickKids Foundation is Canada's largest charitable funder of child health research, learning and care, raising over $200 million last year.
As a national charity, SickKids Foundation invests in national and international initiatives to benefit children in Canada and around the world.
As the fundraising partner to The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), we are aligned in supporting Precision Child Health (PCH), the future of tailoring medicine to each child's unique traits so SickKids can diagnose faster, treat smarter, and predict better.
We are driven by our core values of integrity, collaboration, excellence, innovation, and inclusion, with goals of delivering a superior donor experience, investing in our people and culture, driving innovative and sustainable fundraising, and disrupting the market through data and technology.
SickKids Foundation is committed to an inclusive culture by embedding equity, diversity and inclusion in our policies, practices, and behaviours.
We aim to build awareness and skills in this area, both internally and with our partners.
Our commitment extends to creating a safe, positive work environment.

Equal Opportunity

SickKids Foundation is committed to its people and the talents, capabilities, and perspectives they bring to our mission.
We live that commitment by being open and accessible to all, by valuing and respecting every individual, and by equally supporting every employee.
As an organization proud to have joined the BlackNorth Initiative’s CEO pledge, we uphold our commitment by inviting and encouraging individuals from diverse lived experiences from Black, Indigenous, communities of colour, people with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ community and all candidates who may contribute to the further diversification of the Foundation’s community.
Candidates who require accommodation during the recruitment process should contact the People & Culture team at: recruitment@sickkidsfoundation.com