Engineering Director - Business Data

Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets.

Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT.

Our customers include the worlds leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors.

The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries and very few office-based roles.

Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are hiring an

, who strives for taking ownership of the development and operations of internal business systems integrations, a full data mesh solution built on top of leading open-source software, and the configuration of Salesforce, NetSuite, and other internal business systems.

A successful candidate has a track record of leading the configuration, development and integrations of business systems, such as Salesforce or NetSuite, and data engineering/governance solutions.

Such a candidate adheres to high engineering quality standards, and continuously develops their skills as well as skills of their direct reports.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with highly enthusiastic people on exciting innovative engineering solutions supporting Canonicals growth and learn a lot about engineering for the business.

The engineering director will lead the Business Data unit that is conceived as three engineering teams that closely collaborate with other engineering and business teams at Canonical.

Services designed, developed, and operated by the Commercial Systems unit are at the heart of Canonical business and data analytics and reporting.

We are looking for a software engineering director to oversee the three software teams led by software engineering managers.

team is responsible for systems such as NetSuite, Salesforce, and several others.

The engineers work closely with operations teams, implement business processes, and keep the systems compliant, while delivering first class experience to Canonical employees using those systems to get their job done.

team is responsible for building a comprehensive data mesh solution with a secure and well-governed access to data sets originating at many internal and external data sources

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The team works with well-known open-source tools such as Trino, Ranger, and Superset, and develops tooling facilitating data governance processes.

team is responsible for the integrations between internal and external systems used at Canonical and onboarding of new data sources to the data mesh.

The team designs, develops, and operates Python workflows leveraging an open-source workflow orchestration engine Temporal.

The team also integrates internal and external data sources into the data mesh using open-source ETL solution Airbyte, enabling more data driven decisions in the organization.

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source.

As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world of software.

We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company.

We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do.

Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since its inception in 2004.

Working here is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination.

Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products.

Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.

Role Level: Director Work Type: Full-Time Country: United Arab Emirates City: Dubai Company Website: http://www.canonical.com/ Job Function: Sales Company Industry/

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