Director of Engineering – Weather & Environmental Data Platforms
Oakville, Canada
Weather Source – Engineering /
Full-Time /
Hybrid
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN A WORKPLACE THAT HAS...
Flexible Work Environment 💻
Retirement Savings Matching Plan (RRSP). Plan for your future with us! 💸
Personal Spending Account 💰
Up to $500 to spend on anything related to physical, mental or financial well-being (in addition to your Health Care Spending Account)
Summer Hours 🌞
Start your weekend earlier during the summer months!
17 Paid Days Off (in addition to 13 Personal Days) 🌅
This includes an extra day off during the month of your birthday 🍰- our gift to you!
An IDEAS (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Awareness, Solidarity) team ⚖️
Weather is inclusive, we will be too. Our IDEAS team is committed to making this happen!
📣HAVE WE GOT YOUR ATTENTION? WANT TO LEARN MORE?
Read about us here! (spoiler alert… we are the home of The Weather Network )📍
WHY WE NEED YOU? GLAD YOU ASKED...
At Pelmorex, we are on a mission to revolutionize weather and environment based decision support for businesses and consumers alike. We are looking for a visionary engineering leader to architect, build, and operate the high-performance data platform that will serve as the engine for our entire company's future growth and innovation. You will lead the team responsible for ingesting, processing, and serving all gridded global datasets—from meteorological forecasts to pollen and air quality levels. This platform is not just a backend system; it's the foundation upon which we will build our next generation of B2B decision-support products and hyper-personalized B2C features, directly impacting our profitability and market leadership.
The Opportunity: Build a Startup, Backed by an Enterprise
This is a rare opportunity to get the best of both worlds. You'll lead a small, entrepreneurial team within our fast-growing B2B division, which has ambitious goals to grow X% year-over-year. You will have the autonomy and greenfield opportunity to innovate, experiment, and build with the speed and agility of a startup.
Simultaneously, you'll be backed by the resources, data assets, and stability of a 30-year industry leader. The platform you build won't just be for a startup; it will be adopted company-wide, powering personalization for millions of B2C users. We need a leader who can leverage their "Startup Scrappiness" to drive innovation and speed, while applying their "Enterprise Polish" to build a platform that is scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient enough for our entire business.
Please note we are only considering candidates who are eligible to work in Canada and are currently located in the Greater Toronto Area.
WHAT IS THE DAY TO DAY LOOK LIKE
- Platform Architecture & Strategy
- Define and execute the technical strategy and multi-year roadmap for our core weather and environmental data platform, directly reporting to the Head of B2B with a dotted line to the CTO.
- Lead the architectural design of a high-performance, cost-efficient, and extensible system for ingesting, processing, and delivering gridded global data for B2B & B2C.
- Drive a culture of engineering excellence, championing best practices in cloud architecture (GCP/AWS), security, scalability, and CI/CD.
- Make critical architectural trade-off decisions, balancing scientific precision with cloud costs and time-to-market.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a world-class team of (<12) senior software engineers into a high-performing, customer-obsessed unit.
- Foster a culture of drive, ambition, and innovation, empowering the team to solve complex problems with speed and creativity.
- Provide strategic, hands-on technical guidance through architectural reviews, design discussions, and prototyping (approx. 60-70% management, 30-40% hands-on strategy/design).Own the team's professional development, conducting performance reviews, and setting clear expectations for growth and advancement.
- You will be solving data engineering problems at a massive scale. We are looking for a leader who is excited by the challenge of building and optimizing a system that handles:
- Ingestion: Processing over 50 TB of raw forecast model data daily from diverse sources like GFS, ECMWF, and our proprietary AI models.
- Storage & Processing: Managing a Multi-petabyte archive of historical data and transforming it into analysis-ready, cloud-optimized formats like Zarr and Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF.
- Delivery: Powering a suite of APIs that serve tens of thousands of complex geospatial queries per second with a p99 latency target under 150ms for both our B2B and B2C products.
Engineering Leadership & Team Development
The Scale of Our Data Challenge
WE ARE HOPING YOU HAVE...
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a formal leadership role managing senior engineers.
- Proven track record of architecting, building, and operating large-scale, cloud-native data platforms, preferably on Google Cloud (GCP) or AWS.
- Deep expertise in modern data engineering technologies, including Python or GoLang, Kubernetes, workflow orchestration tools (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster), and message queues.
- Strong architectural skills and experience with data warehousing solutions like Snowflake or BigQuery.
- Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise-grade B2B SaaS products and APIs to demanding commercial customers.
- Exceptional ability to partner with product, sales, and executive stakeholders to translate business needs into concrete technical roadmaps.
- A strategic mindset with the ability to balance long-term platform vision with short-term business goals.
BONUS POINTS FOR:
- Direct experience with meteorological, climate, or other geospatial data formats (GRIB, NetCDF, Zarr).Experience with geospatial libraries and databases (GDAL, Rasterio, PostGIS).Familiarity with large-scale scientific computing or high-performance computing (HPC) environments.
- Experience with MLOps platforms (Vertex AI, SageMaker, Kubeflow) and deploying ML models into production.
- Experience leading a team through a high-growth phase in a startup or a new business unit.
DON’T MEET ALL THE REQUIREMENTS? DON’T WORRY…
Not all applicants will have skills that match a job description exactly. Pelmorex values and welcomes diverse experiences. While having “desired” qualifications makes for a strong candidate, we encourage applicants with alternative experiences to also apply. If your career is just starting or hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you from considering Pelmorex. We are always looking for people who will be a culture add (yup, that's right, we don’t subscribe to culture fit, we want you to add to what we think is an amazing culture and work environment
INTERESTED? IT GETS BETTER…
- Course Reimbursement Program 📚 We want you to keep learning, so we can too
- Open and transparent communication, including All Hands Meetings with our CEO
- Pelmorex Learning Academy 🏫
- Your mental health is important to us! 🧠 We partner with Inkblot for virtual counseling sessions
- Frequent employee pulse surveys 📝 we value your feedback so we can continue to make Pelmorex a great place to work!
- Free online doctor visits 👩⚕️ with Maple Online Healthcare
- While we encourage 1:1 conversations, we recognize that not everyone is comfortable with speaking up 🗣 We have an anonymous reporting platform to ensure everyone’s voice is heard
OUR PROMISE TO YOU...
We’re highly focused on doing the right thing.
We’ll discuss issues and timelines professionally, so you have the time you need to do the best work you can
You will see the result of your work pushed out to real users quickly
We’re a team that enjoys learning new technologies and we’re open to trying new things
We’ll try our best not to bog you down with boring meetings
Weather inspires, protects, and transforms. For 35+ years, Pelmorex has led the way with trusted forecasts and alerts. With innovation at our core, we provide precision, speed, and unmatched reliability—safeguarding lives, powering decisions, and driving business success. Whatever the weather, we turn its potential into action. We’re Pelmorex. Imagine it and we’ll deliver it.
