Director of Data Engineering

About AlayaCare:  

At AlayaCare, we’re revolutionizing the way that home healthcare is delivered. Our leading cloud-based software allows our customers around the world to manage their employees, scheduling, billing, and enable better delivery of care. We’re a fast-growing SaaS company with a team of 550+ team members across Canada, US, Australia, and Brazil. We aim to be the world leader in home healthcare software solutions as we empower providers to deliver better health outcomes to their patients and clients. We pride ourselves on our open and transparent culture, our bias for action, and being committed to a workplace where we can be ourselves.     

About the role:  

Our Data and Intelligence team is a key part of this strategy, enabling our customers to leverage their data to guide their planning and improve efficiency and care delivery. Part of this team is also to provide internal data to leverage for predictive analytics and machine learning in our ML/AI focused Lab. The ideal candidate for this role has hands-on technical experience in the Data Business Intelligence space with strong opinions about architecture, development practice, and process. The candidate will have designed and implemented various data architectures and pipelines and bring best practices to the team.

Experience providing technical leadership to a team of high performing full stack and data developers is key. Architectural or design background in the data field will inform your decisions and help you guide the evolution of our product offerings. Strong communication skills to work effectively with stakeholders inside and outside engineering will be vital to your success.

A day in the life:      

• Reporting to the SVP of Data and Intelligence, you will guide the direction and execution of our technical and architectural roadmap for our Data products 
• Build and deliver high-quality data architecture to support data analysis, customer reporting, and AI/Data products’ needs.
• Oversee the design and development of code, scripts and data pipelines that leverage structured and unstructured data integrated from multiple sources
• Drive the technical vision for a team of developers and other technical personnel and interact closely with product management.
• Design and implementation of cloud infrastructure supporting features and test frameworks 
• Take complete ownership of the data quality for the data feeds built and have a passion for high quality data
• Design and implement a data governance framework (master data management, security, auditability, reliability)
• Always be on the lookout to automate and improve existing data processes for quicker turnaround and high productivity
• Collaboratively work with other Engineering and Product teams in an agile environment, to meet deadlines
• Understanding business features, customer requirements, and internal uses cases
• Provide architectural blueprints and technical leadership
• Evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality and performance is achieved
• Continually improve reporting and analysis processes, automate or simplify self-service support for customers and technical services team
• Collaborate with peer organizations within Engineering, Product and Customer Success on technical issues and provide guidance
• Interpret and translate business needs to technical requirements 

What you bring to the team:   

• 5+ years of experience with data pipelines and familiarity with analytics and concepts
• Bachelor’s degree or an advanced degree (Masters and/or PhD) in computer science, mathematics, data mining, statistics, machine learning, or related field
• Experience working on a large codebase
• A solid background in hands-on data related software development 
• Experience with DBT, SQL, Python, Snowflake, and AWS services such as ECS, S3, and RDS.
• Exposure to Looker or other data visualization platforms, related BI technologies and tools 
• The ability to help shape the architectural direction of our data products 
• Strong communication skills 
• A mindset encouraging transparency, accountability, and trust among their team and stakeholders 
• Our stack is written in Python, PHP and Vue.JS, and runs on AWS – experience with this stack is an asset  
• Our Data BI product is built on Snowflake and Looker – experience with these programs is a definite bonus  
• AlayaCare uses agile development methodology; familiarity with Scrum Agile and SAFe are ideal. 
• Technology around data governance is a nice to have

Location and travel requirements:  

AlayaCare supports a flexible hybrid working model, expecting that our employees have a regular in-office presence at their closest office location while offering flexibility for some remote work. Our team encourages in-person collaboration and with this, the preferred candidate location for this position would be within the Greater Montreal Area. 

What Makes AlayaCare a Great Place to Work: 

• Our products have a positive impact on the lives of countless care workers and care recipients 
• Our company has been recognized by the Globe and Mail as one of Canada’s Top Growing Companies and as a recipient of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50TM program award for our rapid revenue growth, entrepreneurial spirit and bold innovation 
• Equity in a well-funded, high-growth company 
• Hybrid working models with beautiful and creative office spaces to enjoy in prime locations 
• Virtual and onsite social events for employees centered around collaboration, learning, and fun, including DEIBA committee events, volunteer events, fireside chats, catered team lunches, celebrations, and team building activities 
• Comprehensive group benefits program, including telemedicine 
• Employee expense program for health, wellness, lifestyle, professional development and productivity-related expenses 
• Parental leave top-up program 
• Flexible vacation policy 
• Company Wellness Day program for extra time to unwind 
• Paid Volunteer Time off Program 
• Career growth and learning and development opportunities 
• An entrepreneurial culture of transparency, collaboration, and innovation 
• Access to our employee perk program for discounts at various participating vendors 

If this sounds like the perfect job for you, apply today. As well as joining a great culture and a market-leading company, you will be part of a team making a positive difference in the post-acute care market. If this isn’t the job for you, you may know someone who is a perfect fit. Please feel free to share this opportunity.  

If you want to explore AlayaCare further, please visit our website www.alayacare.com.  

Better outcomes, better belonging   

Our team members are unique—like our products and the customer groups that we service. AlayaCare employees bring different strengths, perspectives, and experiences to their roles and to our products that enable better care. We are committed to offering a people-centric culture where all employees belong and feel heard.        

Having a pulse on our employee feedback is important to us as we aim to continuously evolve Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Accessibility within AlayaCare’s policies, total rewards offerings, discussions, learning & development programs, and community partnerships. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration.    

If you require accommodation as part of the recruitment and selection process, please reach out to [email protected]. Please note, we do not accept unsolicited headhunter or agency resumes. 

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