Director of Engineering, Foundation

Informa PLC; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Curinos, a leading provider in financial technology, seeks a Director of Engineering to guide their core platform engineering team. You will play an integral role in developing foundational libraries and architectures that support flagship products. This position offers a mix of hands-on leadership and team mentoring, ensuring strategic alignment across various technology domains while fostering a collaborative and innovative work environment.

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

Flexible working options

Comprehensive leave policy

Learning and development opportunities

Regular social events

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience managing high-performing technical teams.
• 15+ years of experience in full-stack software development.
• Deep experience with cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and mentor a team of platform engineers and architects.
• Provide strategic enterprise architecture leadership for reusable components.
• Design scalable, secure, and maintainable architectural patterns.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Problem-Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering

Tools

Linux & Windows Server

AWS

Databricks

Spark

SQL Server

Postgres

Python

Java

JavaScript

Angular

Job description

Curinos empowers financial institutions to make better, faster and more profitable decisions through industry-leading proprietary data, technologies and insights. With decades-long expertise in the financial services industry and a relentless focus on the future, Curinos technology and analytics ecosystem allows clients to anticipate customer needs and optimize their go-to market decisions in an increasingly competitive market.

Curinos operates under ahybrid modality. We have hub office location in Toronto, Canada.

Job Description

We are looking for a Director of Engineering, Foundation to lead our core platform engineering team. This team of expert architects is responsible for developing and maintaining the foundational libraries, frameworks, and architectural components that underpin many of Curinos’ flagship products. Their work spans backend systems, middleware, web services, and user experience layers—enabling data-driven decision intelligence and robust product support.

This position offers a unique 50/50 blend of hands-on enterprise architecture leadership and engineering team management. You will shape the architectural direction for the firm’s shared engineering assets while developing and mentoring a team of 6–10 engineers.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, manage, and mentor a team of platform engineers and architects, including performance reviews, career development, and training plans.
• Provide strategic enterprise architecture leadershipfor core, reusable components and frameworks that support multiple Curinos products. Partner closely with engineering leaders across distributed computing, data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence domains to ensure scalable and cohesive solutions.
• Collaborate with Product Managersto translate business objectives into clear, actionable requirements for platform capabilities and features
• Design and deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable architectural patterns that enable product teams to accelerate development.
• Evaluate and integrate new technologies and tools to enhance development, testing, deployment, and monitoring practices.
• Champion engineering best practices including Agile development, CI/CD, DevOps automation, and architectural governance.
• Ensure foundational systems embody principles of security, scalability, resilience, observability, and sustainability.

Qualifications

Desired Skills & Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience managing high-performing technical teams.
• 5+ years of experience designing cloud-native architectures with a major cloud provider (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• 15+ years of experience in full-stack software development, including hands-on expertise across the SDLC: ideation, design, development, testing, CI/CD, deployment, and support.
• Deep experience with numerous components of our technology stack:
  • Infrastructure & Platforms: Linux & Windows Server, AWS, Databricks, Spark
  • Databases: SQL Server, Postgres, DynamoDB, Redis
  • Languages & Frameworks: Python, Java, JavaScript, Angular, Tableau
  • Tooling & DevOps: Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Gradle, Docker, Kubernetes
• Proven experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs and microservices architectures.
• Strong problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills.
• A strategic mindset with the ability to balance technical vision with practical execution.

Additional Information

Why work at Curinos?

• Competitive benefits, including a range of Financial, Health and Lifestyle benefits to choose from
• Flexible working options, including home working, flexible hours and part time options, depending on the role requirements – please ask!
• Competitive annual leave, floating holidays, volunteering days and a day off for your birthday!
• Learning and development tools to assist with your career development
• Work with industry leading Subject Matter Experts and specialist products
• Regular social events and networking opportunities
• Collaborative, supportive culture, including an active DE&I program
• Employee Assistance Program which provides expert third-party advice on wellbeing, relationships, legal and financial matters, as well as access to counselling services

Applying:

We know that sometimes the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don't meet all the requirements. If you're excited about working for us and have relevant skills or experience, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need!

If you need any adjustments to support your application, such as information in alternative formats, special requirements to access our buildings or adjusted interview formats pleasecontact us at [e-mail] and we’ll do everything we can to help.

Inclusivity at Curinos:

We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, Curinosis proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics.