Data Platform Lead — Real-Time Data & AI-Ready Infra

Relay; Toronto; On-site; CAD 207,000 - 253,000; Full time

Job summary

Relay, a digital banking platform, seeks a leader to run the Data Platform and grow a senior data engineering team. You’ll own Snowflake cost strategies, accelerate data delivery to stakeholders, and build observability to reveal issues early.

You’ll translate technical work into business outcomes and guide AI-enabled data capabilities across Relay. You’ll balance speed with technical debt and drive a cadence of planning, reviews, and architectural decisions, collaborating to strengthen platform

Qualifications

• Two+ years in engineering management of engineers, including senior staff.
• Hands-on production experience with Snowflake and dbt, building data models.
• Proven track record of owning a production data platform and driving improvements.
• Able to challenge decisions with curiosity and balance tech debt with business needs.
• Lead with context: explain problem, metric, and business case before architecture.
• Comfortable guiding AI-enabled data capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a senior data engineering team.
• Own Snowflake cost; identify savings in the first 90 days.
• Drive real-time data delivery and platform enablement (Kafka, Snowflake MCP).
• Make platform health visible with observability tooling.
• Translate platform work into business outcomes and value.
• Balance speed and technical debt, persuading teams and stakeholders.
• Run the team's operating rhythm: standups, sprint planning, reviews.

Skills

Snowflake

dbt

Team leadership

Real-time data

Observability

AI tooling

Kafka

Tools

MCP server

Cloud platforms

Job description

Relay, a digital banking platform, seeks a leader to run the Data Platform and grow a senior data engineering team. You’ll own Snowflake cost strategies, accelerate data delivery to stakeholders, and build observability to reveal issues early.

You’ll translate technical work into business outcomes and guide AI-enabled data capabilities across Relay. You’ll balance speed with technical debt and drive a cadence of planning, reviews, and architectural decisions, collaborating to strengthen platform