Engineering Director - Business Data

Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets. The company publishes Ubuntu, a widely used platform in public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation, and IoT. Canonical is founder-led, profitable, and growing, with over 1200 colleagues in more than 80 countries, operating primarily remotely with few office-based roles.

• Exceptional academic track record from high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or compelling alternative path
• Proven ability to lead multiple or large teams of software engineers to deliver outstanding results
• Engineering experience in at least one of: CRM/ERP systems, Python, data engineering/governance, or distributed integrations
• Track record of exceeding expectations to achieve outstanding results
• Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
• Result-oriented with personal drive to meet commitments
• Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long

Nice-to-have skills:

• Performance engineering and DevOps/SRE experience
• Experience with compliance

• Lead multiple engineering teams ranging from graduates to seniors
• Develop engineering managers to maintain Canonical culture in their teams
• Develop and evangelize great engineering practices and processes
• Set and implement performance management with goals and objectives for direct reports and teams
• Identify and measure indicators of team health and take action as needed
• Be accountable for product development roadmaps in the teams
• Participate actively in the Commercial Systems leadership team and collaborate with other leaders
• Expand teams by hiring great talent
• Collaborate with stakeholders and product users

Business Systems team responsibilities:

• Manage systems such as NetSuite, Salesforce, and others
• Work closely with operations teams
• Implement business processes and maintain system compliance
• Deliver first-class experience to Canonical employees using these systems

Data Lake team responsibilities:

• Build a comprehensive data mesh solution with secure and well-governed access to data sets from internal and external sources
• Work with open-source tools such as Trino, Ranger, and Superset
• Develop tooling to facilitate data governance processes

Integrations team responsibilities:

• Manage integrations between internal and external systems
• Onboard new data sources to the data mesh
• Design, develop, and operate Python workflows using Temporal workflow orchestration engine
• Integrate data sources using open-source ETL solution Airbyte

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer committed to a workplace free from discrimination. Candidates must be located in the EMEA region as the role is remote based there. Ability to travel internationally twice a year is required.