Vice President, Data & Data Engineering

Socket.dev; Toronto; On-site; CAD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Corporate fitness reimbursement and/or

VersaFi memberships

Investment counseling and portfolio mg

Volunteer and charitable donation

Parental leave top-up

Recognition awards

Performance bonuses

Vacation entitlement

Training and development reimbursement

Health and dental benefits

Healthcare spending account

Job summary

PICTON Investments seeks a Vice President of Data Engineering to define and lead data strategy across investment data, analytics, and AI. You will build modern data platforms, ensuring governance and scalable pipelines for financial data, while collaborating with multiple business units to enable faster innovation.

You will lead a high-performing team and shape architecture choices that balance performance, security, and cost, driving evidence-based decision making across portfolios.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering or tech leadership.
• Experience with data platforms for analytics and AI.
• Strong governance, quality, security, and ownership practices.
• Familiarity with financial data and time-series data is a plus.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute PICTON’s data strategy and architecture.
• Lead design of reliable, scalable pipelines for market, security, portfolio, and historical data.
• Build and lead a high-performing Data Engineering team.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Investment, Product, and AI leaders to translate business needs into data solutions.
• Identify opportunities to leverage modern data and AI technologies for competitive advantage.

Skills

Data leadership

Cloud data platforms

Databricks

Snowflake

SQL

APIs

Communication

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's or higher in CS/IS/related

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

APIs

Job description

Best Workplaces™ in Canada 2020 - 2026 | Best Workplaces™ with Most Trusted Executive Teams 2024 - 2026 | Best Workplaces™ in Financial Services & Insurance 2020 - 2026 | Best Workplaces™ for Mental Wellness 2023 - 2026 | Best Workplaces™ for Giving Back 2022, 2024 | Best Workplaces™ for Inclusion 2021, 2024 | Best Workplaces™ for Women 2021 | Best Workplaces™ in Ontario™ 2020, 2021, 2024 | Best Workplaces™ for Professional Development 2025| Best Workplaces™ for Young Talent 2026

One of Canada’s Most Trusted Investment Brands.

AtPicton Mahoney Asset Management (PICTON Investments),being alternative isn’t just what we do—it’s who we are.

Founded by industry pioneer David Picton, we’ve spent 20 years challenging conventional wisdom and redefining the investing landscape. As one of Canada’s most trusted investment brands, we are proudly independent—privately run, 100% employee-owned, and deeply committed to delivering results for our clients.

Thinking Alternatively is in Our DNA

With a team of 241 bold thinkers—one-third dedicated solely to investment management—we are specialists, not generalists. Managing over$19.3 billion (July 31, 2026)for institutional and retail clients, we navigate markets with conviction, resilience, and a forward-thinking approach.

We’re more thaninvestors — we’re innovators. We challenge traditional investment mindsets, constantly pushing the boundaries to achieve our mission: To bring greater certainty to investors.

Our success is built on four guiding principles:

• Treat investors’ money like our own.

• Redefine the way investors invest.

• Be human—always approachable.
• Succeed together, one investment at a time.

These aren’t just words—they define how we think, how we invest, and how we work.

Now, we’re entering our next chapter. We’re transforming our brand and reshaping the way the world invests. If you think alternatively, embrace an entrepreneurial spirit, and thrive in a dynamic, bureaucracy-free environment, join us and be part of what’s next.

Thriving in Our Entrepreneurial Culture

AtPICTON Investments, you’ll thrive in our creative and dynamic workplace, where collaboration and support are at the core of everything we do. At our firm, you’ll have the opportunity to take on significant responsibilities, work in a flexible environment, and tackle challenging projects from the outset. Our culture is designed for ambitious professionals who want to make an immediate impact while continuing to push boundaries and achieve our greater mission. You’ll be empowered with a high level of responsibility, trust, and flexibility, providing an exciting and creative space for you to help reshape how the world views alternative investments. With competitive total rewards, performance-based bonuses, and a clear path for career growth, you’ll have everything you need to develop both now and over the longer term.

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Vice President, Data Engineering to define and lead PICTON’s data strategy across investment data, analytics, and AI.

This is astrategic, hands-on leadership role responsible for building the architecture, governance, and engineering capabilities needed to turn complex financial data into reliable, accessible, and actionable products.

You will work closely withEngineering, Investment, Product, and AI teams to build a modern data foundation that enables faster innovation and better decision-making.

What You’ll Own

Data Strategy & Architecture

• Define and execute PICTON’s enterprise data strategy, architecture, and roadmap across Databricks, Snowflake, APIs, applications, analytics, and AI.
• Establish scalable architecture and make pragmatic decisions balancing performance, security, cost, and business needs.
• Build a modern data platform supporting portfolio construction, performance, risk, analytics, and AI use cases.

Data Engineering & Governance

• Lead the design of reliable, scalable pipelines for market, security, portfolio, and historical data.
• Establish practical standards for data quality, lineage, governance, security, and ownership.
• Evolve financial data models and semantic layers to create consistent, reusable data across products and teams.
• Ensure data can be easily consumed through APIs, applications, analytics, and AI/LLM solutions.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Build and lead a high-performing Data Engineering and Data Platform team.
• Partner with Engineering, Investment, Product, and AI leaders to translate business needs into effective data solutions.
• Identify opportunities to leverage modern data and AI technologies to create competitive advantage.
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and business stakeholders.

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, architecture, or technology leadership, including significant team leadership experience.
• Strong experience with modern cloud data platforms, particularly Databricks, Snowflake, SQL, APIs, and distributed data pipelines.
• Deep understanding of financial/investment data, including securities, portfolios, market data, performance, risk, and time-series data.
• Experience building data platforms that support analytics, applications, and AI/LLM workloads.
• Strong understanding of data governance, quality, lineage, security, and ownership.
• Ability to move between strategic thinking and technical detail, making pragmatic architecture decisions.
• Strong business acumen and exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Proven ability to build, develop, and lead high-performing technical teams.

Success Looks Like

Atrusted, scalable data foundation where teams can quickly find, understand, and reliably access the right data—and build products, analytics, and AI capabilities without repeatedly solving the same data problems.

The result will be a data platform that enablesfaster innovation, stronger investment capabilities, and sustainable competitive advantage.

Our Commitment to Employees

AtPICTON Investments, we take pride in enhancing our employees' experiences through a comprehensive suite of exceptional perks and programs. Our benefits include corporate fitness reimbursement and discounts, VersaFi memberships (formerly Women in Capital Markets), Picton investment counseling and portfolio management services, volunteer and charitable donation matching, maternity and parental leave top-up, recognition awards, semi-annual performance bonuses, a generous annual vacation entitlement (minimum of 15 days per year), training and development reimbursement, extensive health and dental benefits, a healthcare spending account, and more.

• corporate fitness reimbursement and discounts
• VersaFi memberships (formerly Women in Capital Markets)
• Picton investment counseling and portfolio management services
• volunteer and charitable donation matching
• maternity and parental leave top-up
• recognition awards
• semi-annual performance bonuses
• a generous annual vacation entitlement (minimum of 15 days per year)
• training and development reimbursement
• extensive health and dental benefits
• a healthcare spending account
• and more

These offerings are designed to support your career growth, well-being, and overall success. Join us and thrive in an environment that values and invests in you!

PICTON Investmentsis committed to providing an equitable and fair work environment for everyone and all hiring and other personnel actions will be taken without regard to race, colour, creed, religion, sex, disability, gender identity, gender expression, family status, age, language or national origin. If you require an accommodation at any point in time throughout the application and hiring process, please contact Human Resources at [phone] or at [e-mail].

PICTON Investmentsdoes not accept unsolicited resumes, emails, calls, or any other form of communication from third-party recruitment agencies. Any unsolicited outreach, including commercial electronic messages, will neither be acknowledged nor considered.

Please note: We use AI-assisted tools to support parts of our recruitment process, including summarizing interview notes and aligning candidate profiles with job requirements. All decisions are made by our hiring team.