Localization Engineering Lead — Automation & Data Impact

Apertera (formerly Alexa Translations); Montreal (administrative region); Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Birthday off

Hybrid work model

Personal days

Learning opportunities

Referral program

Job summary

Apertera is seeking a Senior / Localization Engineering Manager to build and lead a cross-functional team focused on automation, tooling, and data-driven improvements for the Professional Translation business. You will own the automation roadmap, drive auditable pipelines, and ensure confidentiality across production workflows.

Working with the EVP of Professional Translation and LO leadership, you will surface gaps, translate needs into technical requirements, and deliver measurable gains in TM

Qualifications

• Experience leading or managing a technical team (engineers, automation, or localization engineering).
• Hands-on background in automation, workflow orchestration, and data engineering (pipelines, scripting, APIs).
• Direct experience in the language technology ecosystem (CAT/TMS, MT/AI platforms).
• Strong understanding of TM leverage, fuzzy matching, terminology management for productivity.
• Working knowledge of professional translation workflows (pre-translation, MTPE, revision, QA).
• Experience designing and operating integrations between systems (API design, patterns, monitoring).
• Ability to work across engineering, operations, and business stakeholders in agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a cross-functional team spanning engineering, automation, and linguistic-data analytics.
• Establish engineering practices, delivery cadence, and quality standards for high-precision tooling.
• Own and prioritize PT workflow automation and internal tooling roadmaps.
• Identify and deliver automation across the production lifecycle (intake, analysis, setup, QA, reporting).
• Leverage translation memories and terminology to maximize asset productivity and consistency.
• Integrate data from HubSpot, finance, QA tickets, and TMs for actionable analytics.
• Collaborate with Technology on architecture, security, and shared infrastructure.
• Partner with senior leadership to surface workflow gaps and translate needs into technical plans.

Skills

Team leadership

Automation & data engineering

Language technology domain

Translation memory leverage

Translation workflow fluency

Integration & APIs

Cross-functional delivery

Tools

n8n

Apache Airflow

APIs

Job description

Apertera is seeking a Senior / Localization Engineering Manager to build and lead a cross-functional team focused on automation, tooling, and data-driven improvements for the Professional Translation business. You will own the automation roadmap, drive auditable pipelines, and ensure confidentiality across production workflows.

Working with the EVP of Professional Translation and LO leadership, you will surface gaps, translate needs into technical requirements, and deliver measurable gains in TM