Director, Data Engineering

Accelerate your success at Colliers.

Why Colliers

As one of Canadas leading commercial real estate services firms we are driven by our mission to accelerate success for our people clients and communities.

A career at Colliers gives you the opportunity to make an impact advance your career and collaborate with top-tier talent. Dont just take our word for it weve been recognized as a top employer on a number of prestigious lists including Best Workplaces in Canada Best Workplaces for Women Best Workplaces with Most Trusted Executive Teams among others.

Hybrid Role Toronto ON

About the role:

As Director Data Engineering within our Global Technology & Data Team youll play a pivotal role in shaping and executing Colliers enterprise data engineering strategy across a complex multi-cloud environment. Partnering closely with data leadership enterprise architecture and technology stakeholders you will lead the design delivery and operation of scalable data platforms and services that enable business transformation advanced analytics artificial intelligence and data-driven decision making across North America and globally.

This is an opportunity to leverage your expertise to help drive Colliers next-generation data ecosystem modernize our enterprise data platforms and position the organization for continued innovation and growth.

• Lead enterprise data engineering strategy: Direct and scale a high-performing team of managers and data engineers fostering a culture of innovation collaboration continuous improvement and technical excellence.

• Drive modern data platform delivery: Oversee the design development and implementation of enterprise-scale data platforms including microservices architectures data mesh and data fabric capabilities AI/ML pipelines Agentic AI and GenAI workflows document extraction services and business intelligence solutions.

• Champion technology roadmap and innovation: Partner with Enterprise Architecture product leaders vendors and technology stakeholders to define and execute the long-term data engineering roadmap ensuring alignment with regional and global business objectives.

• Establish operational excellence and DataOps practices: Define and enforce standards for DataOps SDLC CI/CD data governance security documentation code quality and AI-enabled delivery methodologies to ensure scalable and reliable platform operations.

• Ensure platform reliability and service excellence: Oversee the operational health performance and support of critical North American and global data products driving incident management platform availability and adherence to enterprise service level agreements (SLAs).

What you bring:

• Degree and/or diploma in: Computer Science Data Science Information Technology Engineering or a related discipline. Masters degree preferred or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• 8-10 years of progressive experience preferably in: data engineering data platform cloud engineering enterprise data architecture or related technology leadership roles including experience managing managers and technical professionals.

• Proven experience in cloud-based data architecture and engineering: Deep expertise designing and scaling enterprise data platforms using Google Cloud Platform services such as BigQuery Cloud Storage Dataproc Cloud Data Fusion Cloud Run and Apigee.

• Strong proficiency in modern engineering practices and tools: Experience with Kubernetes particularly GKE microservices architecture enterprise APIs serverless computing infrastructure-as-code using Terraform Azure DevOps and CI/CD frameworks.

• Strategic understanding of BI analytics and artificial intelligence: Knowledge of semantic data models Looker Power BI machine learning pipelines and AI-driven solutions that accelerate engineering delivery and operational excellence.

• Exceptional leadership and communication skills: Ability to influence senior leaders align cross-functional teams translate technical strategy into measurable business outcomes and build a strong culture of accountability and collaboration.

• Commercial real estate industry experience: Considered an asset.

This posting is for an existing vacancy within our organization.

Colliers does not use AI-enabled tools to sort or decline applications. All decisions are made by our talent acquisition team.

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Career growth: Advance your career and achieve your goals with industry-leading training and development programs.

Competitive benefits & compensation: Enjoy a comprehensive and flexible benefits package along with competitive compensation that rewards your contributions and supports your well-being.

Collaborative culture: Join our enterprising team where innovation thrives collaboration is key and our people are empowered to be their authentic selves and do their best work.

Diversity Equity & Inclusion: Our robust North American Diversity & Inclusion Program features eight Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) where you can connect learn and contribute to a diverse and supportive community. Learn more: network: Join a global team of 24000 professionals across 70 countries where youll expand your network and learn from experts in a dynamic international community. Accelerate your career and enhance your expertise as you connect and collaborate with top talent around the world.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in Canada on a full-time basis. The employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas.

Direct applicants only please no agencies.

Colliers is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in its workforce. Colliers encourages applications from all qualified individuals and will accommodate applicants disability-related needs up to the point of undue hardship throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process. If you require a disability-related accommodation to participate in the recruitment process please contact the recruitment team by email at .