TELUS Digital

TELUS Digital

Director and Practice Lead, Data Engineering

Remote, Ontario · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 33 days ago
AWSGCPCloud PlatformsMachine LearningData EngineeringProduct StrategyBusiness DevelopmentCustomer SupportLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • TELUS Digital's Data, AI & Cloud (DAIC) practice is the multidisciplinary engine behind enterprise AI, blending boutique innovation with the breadth of a global services portfolio to help organizations architect, scale, and secure their transformations.
  • This role is for someone who has led data and AI practices before, understands how to turn messy enterprise data estates into strategic assets, and earns trust with C-suite executives through genuine expertise.
  • You will shape how we help clients move from data ambition to durable, AI-ready infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Own the full P&L, including pipeline, pricing, delivery margin, and revenue growth, while reporting directly to executive leadership with clear commercial accountability.
  • Build and sustain senior relationships with Google Cloud partner teams and client executives to generate meaningful deal flow and expand strategic accounts.
  • Lead the practice's position on ethical AI and data democratisation while making principled, evidence-based bets on where advanced analytics and AI are creating real enterprise value.
  • Drive investment in reusable IP, data accelerators, and delivery assets that improve consistency, reduce time-to-value, and protect margins at scale.
  • Serve as a strategic advisor to client C-suite executives, helping them define data strategy, navigate AI adoption, and build the organisational capabilities to sustain it.
  • Set the standard for engineering and analytical excellence across the practice by hiring well, developing talent deliberately, and building teams that clients trust and return to.
  • Executive communication: Able to advise, challenge, and build lasting trust with C-suite stakeholders on complex, ambiguous problems, not just present to them.
  • Own revenue targets, margin, and growth while being accountable for the practice's full commercial performance.

Skills

  • delivering complex engineering, deployment, and migration programs for some of the largest organizations in Canada and beyond.
  • Strong command of modern data architecture, AI, and ML trends, cloud-native data platforms, and enterprise data governance.
  • Professional Data Engineer, Google Digital Leader
  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Benefits

  • Set the practice vision and align Data & AI capabilities to where enterprise demand is heading.
  • Define the multi-year vision for the Data Engineering Practice, ensuring our technical capabilities are ahead of the curve for enterprise demand for Data & AI transformation.

Company info

  • Welcome to TELUS Digital https://www.telusdigital.com/ - where innovation drives impact at a global scale. As an award-winning digital agency and the digital division of TELUS https://www.telus.com/en/, one of Canada's largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.
  • With a global team across North America, South America, Central America, Europe, Africa, and APAC, we offer end-to-end expertise across: Digital Product Strategy & Innovation, Digital Marketing Services, Web & Mobile App Development, Data & AI, Cloud Engineering, and Enterprise Technology Modernization.
  • From mobile apps and websites to voice UI, chatbots, AI, customer service, and in-store solutions, TELUS Digital enables seamless, trusted, and digitally powered experiences that meet customers wherever they are - all backed by the secure infrastructure and scale of our multi-billion-dollar parent company.
  • Welcome to TELUS Digital https://www.telusdigital.com/ - where innovation drives impact at a global scale.
  • As an award-winning digital agency and the digital division of TELUS https://www.telus.com/en/, one of Canada's largest telecommunications providers, we design and deliver transformative customer experiences through cutting-edge technology, agile thinking, and a people-first culture.
  • Our Director & Practice Lead, Data Engineering will operate remotely in Canada OR be based out of either our Toronto, ON or Vancouver, BC office locations.
  • Build a practice where data-driven thinking, innovation, and engineering rigour are the baseline.

Equal opportunity

  • At TELUS Digital, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.
  • All aspects of employment, including the decision to hire and promote, are based on applicants' qualifications, merits, competence and performance without regard to any characteristic related to diversity.
  • We will only use the information you provide to process your application and to produce tracking statistics.
  • Since we do not request personal data deemed sensitive, we ask you to abstain from sharing that information with us.
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