Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As a Manager, Data Engineering at Arc'teryx, you'll lead a team responsible for our core data platform (including Databricks administration, ingestion frameworks, and QA frameworks) while ensuring technical excellence and delivery of data solutions. You'll guide your team's technical direction, develop engineering talent, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver robust, reliable data infrastructure. You'll balance hands-on technical leadership with people management responsibilities, ensuring your team is well-positioned to scale and support our data-driven initiatives.
This position is based out of our North Vancouver office and is open to hybrid remote work. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.
Meet Your Future Team:
The data platform team builds and maintains the data infrastructure (including our Databricks environment, ingestion frameworks, and QA frameworks) that powers analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision making across Arc'teryx's digital platforms, retail operations, and business units. We work with cross-functional agile squads to develop reliable data pipelines, improve data quality, build self-serve analytics tools for our business stakeholders, and ensure timely access to accurate data for our analysts and data scientists.
If you were in the Manager, Data Engineering role now, here are some of the core activities you will be doing:
- Leading and developing a team of data engineers while maintaining technical involvement
- Guiding technical decisions and architecture for your team's projects
- Driving implementation of data engineering best practices and standards
- Overseeing administration, scaling, and governance of our Databricks platform and the data pipelines built on it
- Building and maintaining ingestion frameworks that onboard and standardize new data sources across the business
- Collaborating with product managers and stakeholders to prioritize data initiatives
- Managing team capacity, sprint planning, and delivery commitments
- Coaching and mentoring data engineers in their technical and professional growth
- Supporting hiring and onboarding of new team members
- Establishing and maintaining QA frameworks to ensure data quality and reliability standards are met
- Driving adoption of new tools and technologies within your team
- Managing performance and career development for direct reports
- Demonstrating Arc'teryx leadership code (Lead Self, Lead Others) in daily work
Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:
- Building and scaling high-performing data engineering teams to support organizational growth
- Implementing structured career development frameworks for data engineering professionals
- Leading the technical strategy for data platform modernization initiatives
- Developing automated testing and CI/CD frameworks for data pipeline reliability
- Establishing cross-functional collaboration models between data and business teams
- Standardizing data engineering practices across multiple development teams
Are you our next Manager, Data Engineering?
- You have 8+ years of data engineering experience with 4+ years of team leadership
- You have hands-on experience managing data platform infrastructure, such as Databricks, ingestion frameworks, and QA frameworks
- You have a combined strong technical background with emerging leadership capabilities
- You have experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers
- You have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- You are passionate about building strong engineering teams
- You remain highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
- Your passion for technical leadership is paralleled by your passion for getting outside and living it
Compensation:
Most new team members join between the start and midpoint of the range, where you can contribute right away while continuing to grow your craft, your collaborations, and your impact at Arc’teryx. This range reflects market alignment and the scope of the role. Individual pay is determined by your skills, experience, and level of responsibility.
We’re committed to fair, equitable, and competitive pay, reviewed regularly to ensure internal alignment and market relevance. Transparency is part of how we follow through on our commitments and how we honour the value you bring to our team.
In addition to base pay, Arc’teryx supports people through benefits designed to sustain both work and life:
- Health & wellbeing - Extended health, dental, and vision coverage, including mental health support, fertility benefits, gender-affirming care and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Financial wellbeing - RRSP matching and eligibility for Arc'teryx Annual Incentive Plan and access to Employee Stock Purchase program (ESPP) where applicable.
- Time & Flexibility - Paid time off, wellness time, and No Wasted Day program (dedicated paid days to get outside & explore).
- Family support - Parental leave top-up and a nesting period for new parents.
- Growth, community & gear - Professional development opportunities, Arc'teryx Academies (outdoor skill-building events), Employee Belonging Councils, and access to employee discounts and Pro Deals (exclusive discounted pricing on gear).
*Eligibility for certain programs may vary by role.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of data engineering experience
- 4+ years of team leadership experience
- Hands-on experience managing data platform infrastructure, including Databricks, ingestion frameworks, and QA frameworks
- Strong technical background with emerging leadership capabilities
- Experience leading technical projects and mentoring engineers
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Passion for building strong engineering teams
- Flexibility and adaptability when faced with ambiguity
- Eligibility to work in Canada
What We Do
Arc’teryx is a global design company based in North Vancouver, B.C. that specializes in technical high-performance outerwear and equipment. We design and manufacture a wide range of mountain sports outdoor apparel and equipment for all conditions and experiences, including mountaineering, ice and rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, and trail running. Our company is built on a passionate and relentless commitment to design, craftsmanship and performance. We have a unique construction process that enables us to create technical products that can be trusted to perform at the point of extreme need. We are uniquely positioned in our industry as we have our own factory located in New Westminster, BC, which enables us to build products with a meticulous focus on detail and performance. We leverage this manufacturing knowledge and share it with our global partner factories. In the Coast Mountain Range behind our headquarters and design centre in North Vancouver, we field test our products in real world conditions allowing us to create the best-fitting, longest-lasting, highest-performing technical products available. We distribute our outerwear and equipment through more than 3,000 retail locations worldwide, in over 40 countries globally, including 38 branded and outlet stores in Europe, North America and Asia. The company started with six employees in 1989 and now has more than 1000 employees in Canada.
