The role
Canonical needs an Engineering Director to lead its Business Data unit: three engineering teams covering Salesforce and NetSuite, a data lake and system integrations. You'll manage engineering managers and own the product roadmaps.
What you'll do
- Lead three engineering teams, from graduates to seniors
- Develop your engineering managers and Canonical culture in their teams
- Own the product development roadmaps for the Business Data teams
- Set performance goals and track team health indicators
- Hire new engineers and work with stakeholders and product users
What they're looking for
Must-haves
- Proven record driving multiple or large software engineering teams
- Engineering experience in CRM/ERP, Python, data engineering/governance or integrations
- Technical undergraduate degree, or a compelling alternative path
- Professional written and spoken English with strong presentation skills
- Able to travel internationally twice a year, up to two weeks
Nice to have
- Performance engineering and DevOps/SRE experience
- Experience with compliance
The company

Canonical
Profitable open-source firm in 80+ countries
Canonical publishes Ubuntu and provides open-source software for enterprise and technology markets. It's founder led, profitable and growing, with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries.
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