Engineering Director - Business Data
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Job description
Engineering Director at Canonical leading the Business Data unit, overseeing three software engineering teams (Business Systems, Data Lake, Integrations) that build and operate internal business systems, a data mesh, and integrations. The role is based remotely in the EMEA region.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · EMEA region
- Languages
- English – fluent
What you'll do
- Leading multiple teams of engineers, ranging from graduates to seniors
- Developing your engineering managers to maintain Canonical culture in their teams
- Developing and evangelize great engineering practices and processes in the teams
- Setting and implementing solid performance management with performance goals and objectives with your direct reports and teams
- Identifying and measuring indicators of team health, and take action where needed
- Being accountable for the product development roadmaps in the teams
- Being an active part of the Commercial Systems leadership team, collaborating with other leaders
- Expanding your teams by hiring great talent
- Collaborating with stakeholders and product users
What we're looking for
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
- Proven ability to drive multiple teams or large teams of software engineers to deliver outstanding results
- Engineering experience in at least one of the following areas: CRM/ERP systems, Python, data engineering/governance, or distributed integrations
- Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
- Result-oriented, with a personal drive to meet commitments
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year, for company events up to two weeks long
Nice to have
- Performance engineering and DevOps/SRE experience
- Experience with compliance
Your team
Business Data unit
Conceived as three engineering teams that closely collaborate with other engineering and business teams at Canonical: the Business Systems team (NetSuite, Salesforce and several others), the Data Lake team (data mesh solution with secure, well-governed access to data sets), and the Integrations team (integrations between internal and external systems and onboarding of new data sources to the data mesh).
Benefits
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Program
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
- Performance-driven annual bonus or commission
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About Canonical
A pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source
Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries and very few office-based roles.
Mission
Changing the world of software as the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud.
Key facts
- 1200+ colleagues
- 2004
- Open-source software and operating systems
- 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries
- Very few office-based roles
- Teams meet two to four times yearly in person
- Founder led, profitable and growing
- Most colleagues have worked from home since its inception in 2004
- Recruits on a global basis
What they value
- Excellence
- Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background
- Fairness globally