Director of Data Engineering & AI Platform (Remote)

Lever, Inc.; United States; Remote; CAD 285,000 - 328,000; Full time

Job summary

SQUIRE, a leading data-driven platform for barbers, is seeking a Director of Data Engineering to design and guide a growing data organization. This role blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership, shaping data pipelines, architecture, and standards to enable trusted insights.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team across Data Engineering, ML Engineering, and Analytics, own the long-term data strategy, and partner with senior leaders to translate company goals into concrete data

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data or software engineering, incl. 4+ years in people leadership.
• Experience building a multidisciplinary data org (data, ML, analytics, software) of 5+ people.
• Strong SQL and Python skills with deep MDM fundamentals.
• Hands-on with Snowflake (or equivalent), dbt, and an orchestration tool.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and debug high-impact pipelines connecting CRM, billing and internal platforms to Snowflake.
• Own data strategy and architecture across multi-year horizon; stay hands-on with systems edge cases.
• Set technical direction and standards for pipeline design, data modeling, and data quality; lead high-risk work.

Skills

Data engineering

People management

SQL & Python

Snowflake

dbt

Orchestration tools

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Dagster

Prefect

Job description

SQUIRE, a leading data-driven platform for barbers, is seeking a Director of Data Engineering to design and guide a growing data organization. This role blends hands-on coding with strategic leadership, shaping data pipelines, architecture, and standards to enable trusted insights.

You will lead a multidisciplinary team across Data Engineering, ML Engineering, and Analytics, own the long-term data strategy, and partner with senior leaders to translate company goals into concrete data