Associate Director, Data Engineer

ABOUT US

SickKids Foundation with over 50 years of philanthropic impact is Canadas largest charitable funder of child health research learning and care raising over $200 million last year. As a national charity SickKids Foundation invests in national and international initiatives to benefit children in Canada and around the world. As the fundraising partner to The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) we are aligned in supporting Precision Child Health (PCH) the future of tailoring medicine to each childs unique traits so SickKids can diagnose faster treat smarter and predict better.

We are driven by our core values of integrity collaboration excellence innovation and inclusion with goals of delivering a superior donor experience investing in our people and culture driving innovative and sustainable fundraising and disrupting the market through data and technology.

SickKids Foundation is committed to an inclusive culture by embedding equity diversity and inclusion in our policies practices and behaviours. We aim to build awareness and skills in this area both internally and with our partners. Our commitment extends to creating a safe positive work environment. For details on our Equity Diversity & Inclusion commitment please click here.

Were committed to attracting and retaining passionate individuals to help create a healthier future. Thats why SickKids Foundation is looking for a new Associate Director Data Engineer.

Description of the Position

Reporting to the Director Data Science & Engineering the Associate Director Data Engineer designs builds and operates enterprise-grade data platforms that deliver trusted well-governed data across SickKids Foundation. The role will help establish and evolve a production-grade cloud platform using medallion architecture principles with a focus on reliability data quality cost efficiency and scalable delivery.

As a senior hands-on technical contributor you will set engineering standards support platform incident response enable self-serve analytics and AI-powered data products and provide specialized technical guidance to data and analytics partners across the Foundation.

You will

• Design build and operate enterprise-grade data engineering platforms using modern cloud technologies such as Microsoft Fabric Snowflake and Databricks aligned to bronze silver and gold medallion architecture principles.
• Build and maintain robust idempotent ETL/ELT pipelines with embedded validation data quality checks clear lineage and repeatable delivery workflows.
• Design data models and semantic layers that make trusted data accessible for analytics reporting and self-serve business intelligence.
• Establish platform observability through query profiling cost attribution utilization metrics alerting and SLO/SLA monitoring; lead day-to-day response to data availability and performance incidents.
• Define and enforce coding standards CI/CD patterns and Infrastructure-as-Code practices to support consistent secure and scalable platform deployment.
• Partner with business stakeholders Data & Analytics IT/Infrastructure and Security teams to translate requirements into reliable platform capabilities and support appropriate access governance and compliance.
• Enable AI and advanced analytics use cases including natural-language querying and AI-powered data products by partnering with stakeholders to identify and deliver high-value opportunities.
• Stay current with developments in cloud data platforms AI and emerging engineering practices bringing relevant advancements into the platform roadmap and providing technical guidance to analysts BI developers and engineering partners.

Qualifications

While we know that for any job posting no one candidate will possess the qualifications being sought in equal measure below is an outline of the qualifications we believe are important for a candidate to bring to the position or for the successful candidate to develop while in the role:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Systems or a related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience.
• 5-7 years of hands-on data engineering or platform engineering experience ideally spanning the full lifecycle of architecting building and operating production data platforms.
• Deep technical expertise with modern cloud data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric Snowflake or Databricks and strong knowledge of medallion/lakehouse architecture.
• Strong data modelling and database design skills for analytics and business consumption including dimensional modelling and semantic layers for self-serve BI.
• Hands-on experience developing production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines and working with data quality governance CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Experience establishing observability performance monitoring reliability standards and incident-response practices in production data environments.
• Working knowledge of AI and advanced analytics tooling including approaches that support natural-language querying and AI-powered data products.
• Strong technical judgment problem-solving communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholder groups.
• Knowledge of foundational data domains business processes and enterprise applications is an asset.

Were looking for a passionate individual who is interested in moving the dial and making a difference. We are an environment that looks to attract hardworking and committed people; people who want to challenge themselves and grow with a globally recognized brand that continues to change the world. If this describes you consider joining our team. We look forward to reviewing your application.

Total Compensation Package

Expected Hiring Salary Range: $99297 - $124121; with the ability to progress to a maximum of $142739 with demonstrated experience and proficiency. To ensure fair and equitable pay at SickKids Foundation placement on the salary range will be based on your years of experience skills and qualifications relevant to the Associate Director Data Engineer role.

To help you lead in the fight for kids health and to support your health wellness and career growth in addition to competitive compensation we offer a comprehensive benefit package (includes a flex benefit plan) tuition reimbursement flexible work arrangements pension plan and birth parent/parental top up to name a few!

Position Status: Permanent Full-Time.

Hours: Hybrid work model: minimum two days per week in-office (Tuesday and Wednesday).

Available To: Internal and External Candidates

Available: Immediately; this posting is for an existing vacancy.

Date Posted: October 5 2026

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis. We encourage interested candidates to apply early.

How to apply: Please apply on-line by visiting our website: note that automated tools including artificial intelligence may be used to support the pre-screening of applications as part of our recruitment process.

SickKids Foundation is committed to its people and the talents capabilities and perspectives they bring to our mission. We live that commitment by being open and accessible to all by valuing and respecting every individual and by equally supporting every employee. As an organization proud to have joined the BlackNorth Initiatives CEO pledge we uphold our commitment by inviting and encouraging individuals from diverse lived experiences from Black Indigenous communities of colour people with disabilities 2SLGBTQIA community and all candidates who may contribute to the further diversification of the Foundations community.

Candidates who require accommodation during the recruitment process should contact the People & Culture team at:

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Required Experience:

Director