Senior Manager, AdTech Engineering

Job description

**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](https://www.pelmorex.com/en/)! (spoiler alert… we are the home of The Weather Network )📍 **Proud to share that we ranked #5 Most Admired Company in Canada in [Leger](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/leger360_reputation2026-activity-7450230222056050690-o_LO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAMh5f4Bnp87_m_7nxVpZ16tddSbGS1Ey0o)’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