Engineering Director

Canonical is a leading provider of open-source software and operating systems for global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in more than 80 countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution. The engineering director will lead the Business Data unit that is conceived as three engineering teams that closely collaborate with other engineering and business teams at Canonical. The Business Systems team is responsible for systems such as NetSuite, Salesforce, and several others. The Data Lake team is responsible for building a comprehensive data mesh solution with a secure and well-governed access to data sets originating at many internal and external data sources. The Integrations team is responsible for the integrations between internal and external systems used at Canonical and onboarding of new data sources to the data mesh. Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region. The role entails leading multiple teams of engineers, developing your engineering managers, evangelizing engineering practices, setting performance management, identifying indicators of team health, owning roadmaps, collaborating with stakeholders, expanding teams, and more. Nice-to-have skills include performance engineering, DevOps/SRE, and compliance experience. The compensation approach is described as globally shaped, with annual reviews and a mix of base pay and bonus. Canonical promotes equal opportunity employment and remote-first culture. Requisition ID: 801.