Director, Data Platforms & Services

Moneris Seeking Director, Data Platforms & Services for immediate hire. Accepting applications from all groups.

Your Moneris Career – The Opportunity

We are looking for a Director, Data Platforms and Services to lead the teams that ensure Moneris has a scalable, automated, reliable, and efficient set of services that supports Moneris’ business operations. This includes building the teams to achieve a common vision, and empowering them to work on it.

You will collaborate with other group leaders in Technology and corporate business to build large-scale projects, operationalize technologies, establishing technology road maps, and help set standards and processes.

Location: You will be based in our Toronto office and will work in a Hybrid model.

Reporting Relationship: You will report to the SVP, Infrastructure Services and Operations.

Your Moneris Career – What you’ll do

• Leads the direction for the design, engineering, automation, and build of shared Data platforms and Services in the public cloud and on-premises.

• Lead teams of Engineers and Support resources responsible for multiple aspects of our shared Data Platforms Services, including Databases, API Management, Analytics, ML and IA tooling, and File Transfers that supports our important applications and Data and Development teams

• In partnership with Data and Application teams will participate in designing and building the supporting databases and data tooling for core in-house develop gateways, transaction, settlement, and payment processing systems in an Agile way

• Sponsors projects with business, architecture, data, development, and applications teams to design, engineer, deploy, and install data platforms and tooling services, technologies, and solutions

• Establish technology standards, road maps, and strategy across Technology Infrastructure and within Moneris

• Oversee and maintain Data Platforms project and ongoing support budgets

• Facilitate, assess, identify inefficiencies, and anticipate core in-house developed important applications, transaction and payment processing systems data tooling needs

• Collaborate with senior management in setting and establishing IT strategies and technology road maps

• Maintain relationships and negotiate with vendors and partners, plans and acquire infrastructure hardware and software, and manage operational costs

Your Moneris Career – What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree required; or equivalent work experience.

• 12+ years of experience working in a leadership or architecture position

• 5+ years of technical leadership position and people management.

• Experience with modern Infrastructure technologies and software development practices including public cloud, Databases, APIM, Analytics tools, ML and AI platforms, containerization, CI/CD pipelines, etc.

• Experience presenting technical perspectives to senior management. You will need to explain your proposals for senior management to understand their value, are persuaded to invest in them and become champions of them for you

• Experience with IT process, governance and IT frameworks

• Experience managing budgets, and negotiating and maintaining vendor relationships

Your Moneris Career – What you get

• Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses, flexible benefits starting from day 1, and your choice of either a health spending account (HSA) or personal spending account (PSA)

• RRSP matching & defined contribution pension plan

• Learning & development programs and resources including unlimited free access to Coursera and an Educational Assistance Program

• Holistic approach to your well-being, with an Employee Assistance Program for you and your family, access to 24/7 virtual health care, wellness events and a supportive workplace culture

• A workplace committed to investing in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) through various initiatives including, employee inclusion groups (EIGs), mentorship, DEI learning and workshops, educational events, and various resources including an internal DEI website and newsletter

• Company-wide paid year-end closure & personal time off (including religious, personal, and volunteer days)

Find out more about the work perks and benefits you get as a Moneris employee at Moneris.com/careers

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Note: We welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, people of colour, people with disabilities, people of all genders, sexual orientation and intersectional identities.

We acknowledge that people from equity-deserving groups (including racialized individuals, women, gender diverse individuals, individuals with disabilities, neurodivergent individuals, members of 2SLGBTQIA+ communities and those born outside of Canada) are less likely to apply for jobs unless they feel they meet all the requirements posted. At Moneris, we believe candidates bring experience to their work in many ways. We encourage you to apply and share, in the application form, the transferrable experience you bring, and how this will support your success in this role.