Data Platform Lead

Job Description

Data Platform Lead:
On behalf of our Consulting client, Procom is searching for a Data Platform Lead for a 6 month contract role. This position is a hybrid position with 3 days onsite at our client’s Toronto office.

Data Platform Lead - Job Description:
The client is building out a modern data platform and internal data team from a third-party-delivered foundation. They need a seasoned data engineering leader to take ownership of the Fabric lakehouse and pipelines, advise on architecture and platform decisions, and mentor the team as they grow.

Data Platform Lead - Responsibilities:
• Own and extend the Fabric data lake: pipelines, ingestion, orchestration, semantic models, data quality.
• Manage enterprise-scale integrations across Salesforce, NetSuite, marketing platforms, and bespoke apps via APIs and ETL.
• Take over the partner-built environment, document it, stabilize it, and own it going forward.
• Build scalable, well-governed data infrastructure with attention to standards, source control, CI/CD, and DevOps.
• Advise on architecture, performance, reliability, and platform decisions—and hold the line on good practice.
• Support the build-out of Power BI semantic models, dashboards, and executive reports.
• Lead customer and sales reporting first; expand to other business functions as priorities evolve.
• Align business and technical teams around data definitions, requirements, and frameworks.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers and analysts as they’re hired.

Data Platform Lead - Mandatory Skills:
• 8+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or platform building.
• Strong SQL, data warehousing, dimensional modelling, and lakehouse design.
• Hands-on Fabric experience or very deep Azure (ADF/Synapse).
• Enterprise-scale data pipelines and integrations.
• Python and/or R, source control, and DevOps.
• Consultative and advisory skills.
• Stakeholder and people skills.

Data Platform Lead – Nice-to-Have Skills:
• Salesforce, NetSuite, or ERP/CRM integration experience.
• Fabric, Azure, or data engineering certifications.
• Experience building or scaling a data team from the ground up.
• Advanced analytics: forecasting, predictive modelling, ML or AI.
• Microsoft Purview governance experience.

Data Platform Lead – Assignment Length:
This is a 6 month contract position.

Data Platform Lead - Start Date:
ASAP.

Data Platform Lead - Assignment Location:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This is a hybrid role with 3 days in the office.

This employer uses both human and technology-assisted tools to support candidate screening and assessment. Final hiring decisions are made by people.