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Senior Manager, AdTech Engineering

Pelmorex

Oakville, Canada Full-time Posted 12d ago
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ARE YOU INTERESTED IN A WORKPLACE THAT HAS... Flexible Hybrid 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 )📍   Proud to share that we ranked #5 Most Admired Company in Canada in Leger’s 2026 Reputation Study, among 334 organizations     WHY WE NEED YOU? GLAD YOU ASKED...    The Senior Manager, AdTech Products leads the holistic technical strategy, end-to-end architecture, and organizational execution for our flagship data and advertising technology platforms. Bridging front-end SaaS applications with large-scale data engineering infrastructure, this role drives the vision for next-generation AdTech products across web, mobile, OTT, and connected platforms.  You will lead multiple agile teams across front-end systems, real-time data ingestion pipelines, DSP/SSP integrations, and analytics infrastructure. By aligning enterprise business goals with full-stack technical roadmaps, you will scale high-throughput ad-delivery networks, maintain strict privacy and data compliance, optimize multi-cloud infrastructure spending, evaluate strategic vendor partnerships, and serve as an internal advisor on emerging AdTech industry trends   Please note, we are only considering candidates who are eligible to work in Canada and can work in a Hybrid model at our Oakville location. WHAT'S THE DAY TO DAY LIKE? Strategic Leadership & Multi-Team Management: Lead, mentor, and scale multiple engineering teams across Front-End, Data Engineering, and Platform Integration domains, driving career development, engineering culture, and cross-team alignment. End-to-End Technical Strategy & Architecture: Define the unified technical roadmap across user-facing platforms, visualization dashboards, and big-data processing pipelines (e.g., DSP/SSP, DMP syncs, event streaming). Strategic Vendor & Partner Management: Participate in vendor selection, technical due diligence, contract negotiations, and ongoing relationship management for third-party AdTech tools, data partners, and platform integrations to ensure flawless execution and high ROI. AdTech Market Intelligence & Knowledge Sharing: Continuously monitor evolving AdTech industry trends, emerging regulations, cookieless identity solutions, and marketplace shifts; translate insights into strategic briefings and actionable technical roadmaps for executive leadership. Product & Platform Lifecycle Oversight: Own the end-to-end software development lifecycle, setting standardizations for code quality, performance metrics, data governance, and automated CI/CD deployment pipelines. Cross-Functional & Strategic Alignment: Partner with Product, Data Science, Ad Operations, and external AdTech partners to translate complex commercial objectives into scalable, future-proof platforms. Data Processing & Machine Learning Integration: Oversee high-throughput data processing systems and machine-learning workflows (e.g., dynamic campaign optimization, audience segmentation). Infrastructure Optimization & Governance: Direct cloud cost optimization across hybrid and cloud environments (GCP/BigQuery and Snowflake), ensuring system reliability, security, accessibility (A11Y), and global ad privacy compliance. Technical Debt & Architectural Health: Proactively identify systemic dependencies and architectural bottlenecks, balancing rapid commercial feature delivery with long-term platform health and refactoring initiatives. WE ARE HOPING YOU HAVE: Education & Years of Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or related technical field. 10+ years of total software engineering and data experience, with at least 6+ years of direct people management experience over multi-disciplinary or multi-team engineering units. AdTech Domain Expertise: Proven track record building enterprise digital advertising ecosystems, including programmatic platforms (DSP/SSP), DMPs, audience signals, and real-time ad delivery networks. Demonstrated ability to track industry shifts and evaluate external vendor platforms. Vendor Strategy & Delivery: Strong track record managing complex vendor ecosystems, negotiating technical contracts, evaluating build-vs-buy decisions, and overseeing vendor integration execution. Full-Stack Technical Depth: Front-End: Mastery of modern JavaScript/TypeScript, client frameworks (React, Angular, Vue), build tooling, and data visualization libraries (e.g., D3.js, ECharts) for heavy analytical dashboards. Data & Cloud Infrastructure: Deep knowledge of distributed data frameworks (Apache Spark, Airflow, Google Cloud Dataflow), cloud data warehouses (BigQuery/GCP, and Snowflake), SQL, and event-streaming pipelines (Python/Scala). Systems Architecture: Experience designing high-availability APIs, microservices, and hybrid cloud infrastructures designed to ingest, process, and render high-volume behavioral signals. Compliance & Governance: In-depth understanding of global digital advertising privacy laws, consent frameworks, and data governance. Executive Presence: Exceptional strategic communication skills with a proven ability to align technical roadmaps with non-technical executive leadership and commercial goals.   YOU ARE MADE FOR THIS IF YOU.. Possess a systemic vision capable of bridging low-latency front-end rendering with high-volume back-end data processing. Excel at translating technical complexity into strategic value for executive stakeholders, commercial partners, and internal business units. Are a natural industry strategist who thrives on staying ahead of market shifts, emerging advertising specs, and vendor innovation. Are passionate about servant leadership—coaching engineering leaders, building inclusive team cultures, and optimizing delivery workflows. Drive continuous innovation by evaluating emerging AdTech standards, machine learning workflows, and modern cloud technologies. Balance rigorous engineering quality, vendor relationship management, and technical debt management with high-speed business execution. 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 our benefits provider 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. Fair and Authentic Interview Experience We welcome candidates using AI tools to prepare for interviews or to learn more about Pelmorex. During the interviews themselves, we expect responses to come from your own experience and thinking. We ask that candidates not use real-time AI assistance, live answer prompts, or automated response tools during interviews. This helps ensure a fair process for everyone and allows us to evaluate how you approach problems and communicate in your own voice.

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