Manager of Azure Data Integration - Progression3 (Delta)

The Manager of Data Integration (Azure ETL/ELT) will lead the strategy, delivery, and operational excellence of enterprise data pipelines across both Azure cloud and on-premises environments. This role combines people leadership, architectural oversight, and platform ownership, with a strong focus on modern Azure-native data integration while supporting legacy SQL-based systems. You will lead a high-performing team of data engineers and be accountable for ETL platform performance, reliability, and scalability. What You’ll Do Leadership & Strategy - Lead, mentor, and grow a team of data engineers and ETL developers - Define and drive the ETL/ELT architecture roadmap, with a robust emphasis on Azure modernization - Establish engineering standards, code review practices, and delivery excellence - Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, and Data Governance teams, while owning ETL design decisions Azure Data Engineering & Modernization - Architect and oversee pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Fabric Data Factory, Synapse Pipelines, and related services - Lead the migration of legacy SSIS/on-prem ETL to scalable cloud-native solutions - Design ingestion frameworks for structured, semi-structured (JSON, XML, CSV), and unstructured data - Optimize pipeline performance, scalability, and cost using Azure monitoring tools - Apply best practices: parallelization, metadata-driven pipelines, and parameterization Data Quality, Governance & Security - Implement data validation, monitoring, and automated quality controls - Ensure compliance with data governance, lineage, and metadata standards - Enforce security best practices (RBAC, managed identities, encryption) - Support data privacy requirements (PII handling, masking, retention policies) Operational Excellence - Oversee daily operations: scheduling, monitoring, incident management - Own and improve SLAs for data reliability, timeliness, and availability - Implement CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps - Drive automation and resiliency across ETL processes Collaboration & Delivery - Partner with analytics, reporting, data science, and application teams - Translate business needs into scalable data solutions - Prioritize initiatives based on business value and impact - Guide integration of new systems and data sources What You Bring Experience - 7+ years in data engineering, ETL/ELT, or data integration - 2–5+ years in team leadership or management roles - Hands-on experience with: Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, Azure Storage (ADLS Gen2), Azure Functions; SQL and modern ELT patterns - Proven experience modernizing legacy ETL to cloud platforms - Strong background in Azure DevOps, Git, and CI/CD practices Apply on Kit Job: kitjob.ca/job/2nlnzf