Technical Director, Data Engineering Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Diligent is looking for a Technical Director of Data Engineering to help design and build the next generation of data and AI infrastructure powering our products and internal platforms.

This is not a traditional management role. We are looking for an experienced builder; someone who still enjoys writing code, debugging distributed systems, evaluating frameworks, and getting hands‑on with architecture and implementation.

You will work across large‑scale ingestion pipelines, search systems, AI/LLM infrastructure, event‑driven architectures, vector databases, analytics platforms, and real‑time data processing. You should be equally comfortable discussing high‑level architecture with senior leadership and diving into a failing Kubernetes pod or optimizing a Spark job.

The ideal candidate has strong opinions informed by real‑world experience, understands tradeoffs deeply, and can move quickly without creating unnecessary complexity.

What You’ll Do