Vice President, Data & Data Engineering

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One of Canadas Most Trusted Investment Brands.

AtPicton Mahoney Asset Management (PICTON Investments)being alternative isnt just what we doits who we are.

Founded by industry pioneer David Picton weve spent 20 years challenging conventional wisdom and redefining the investing landscape. As one of Canadas most trusted investment brands we are proudly independentprivately 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 thinkersone-third dedicated solely to investment managementwe 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.

Were more thaninvestors were 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 humanalways approachable.
• Succeed together one investment at a time.
  

These arent just wordsthey define how we think how we invest and how we work.

Now were entering our next chapter. Were 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 whats next.

Thriving in Our Entrepreneurial Culture

AtPICTON Investments youll thrive in our creative and dynamic workplace where collaboration and support are at the core of everything we do. At our firm youll 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. Youll 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 youll 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 PICTONs 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 Youll Own

Data Strategy & Architecture

• Define and execute PICTONs 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 Were 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 dataand 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.

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 or at.

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.

Required Experience:

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