Data Team Lead

Redpath Bruce

Data Team Lead coordinating data engineering and reporting capabilities for mining industry projects. Guiding a team while ensuring timely delivery aligned with project priorities in a hybrid work environment.

Posted 7/6/2026full-timeVaughan • 🇨🇦 CanadaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Coordinate day-to-day delivery activities across Data Engineers and Power BI Developers.
Translate project priorities into actionable work items and support backlog execution.
Work closely with the Project Manager on planning, sequencing, and tracking of technical deliverables.
Ensure alignment between technical work and project timelines, milestones, and dependencies.
Identify and help resolve delivery risks, blockers, and dependencies.
Contribute directly to development of data pipelines, transformations, and datasets as needed.
Support implementation of data solutions aligned with established architecture and design.
Assist in troubleshooting data issues and ensuring reliability of delivered solutions.
Provide guidance to team members on implementation approaches, standards, and best practices.
Support consistency in data modeling, pipeline design, and development practices.
Participate in design discussions with the Data Architect and contribute practical input based on delivery experience.
Support onboarding and mentoring of Data Engineers and Power BI Developers.
Encourage knowledge sharing and continuous learning within the team.
Provide input on performance, growth, and capability development.
Work with business stakeholders as needed to clarify requirements and support delivery.
Participate in working sessions, demos, and reviews to validate outputs.
Ensure delivered solutions are aligned with business needs and usable for reporting and analysis.
Promote good practices in data quality, validation, and monitoring.
Identify opportunities to improve reliability, performance, and maintainability of data solutions.
Support incremental improvement of data assets and processes.
Support implementation of data governance practices, including metadata, lineage, access control, and data quality.
Apply established standards and decision frameworks for shared KPIs, hierarchies, and reporting usage.
Contribute to master data alignment (e.g., projects, equipment, locations, cost codes) in collaboration with the Data Architect and business stakeholders.
Support implementation of security models (e.g., row-level security in Power BI) and ensure adherence to organizational, safety, and regulatory requirements.
Maintain confidentiality with respect to Redpath business and vendor information.
Support other members of the Corporate IT teams as required.

Requirements

What you’ll need

6–10+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics, or related roles.
Experience delivering data solutions in project or program environments.
Experience guiding or supporting junior team members is an asset.
Strong hands-on experience with data pipelines, transformation, and reporting datasets.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data/Software Engineering, Information Systems, or Mining/Construction Engineering; equivalent experience considered.
Advanced degree or relevant certifications (e.g., Azure/Data Engineering, Power BI) are an asset.
Strong SQL and data transformation skills.
Experience with modern data platforms (e.g., Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, DataBricks or similar).
Experience supporting reporting solutions (e.g., Power BI semantic models).
Understanding of data modeling and integration patterns.
Familiarity with DevOps/DataOps practices.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Overtime may be required to meet project deadlines
International travel as required for the purpose of meeting with clients, stakeholders, or off-site personnel/management.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Data EngineeringData TransformationData ModelingData Integration PatternsData Quality MonitoringData Governance PracticesReporting DatasetsData Solutions DeliveryMetadata ManagementRow-Level Security

Soft Skills

Team MentoringKnowledge SharingProblem SolvingCollaborationCommunication

Certifications

Azure Data Engineering CertificationPower BI Certification