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Engineering Manager – Applications, BI & AI Enablement
Bennett Jones
Calgary, CAN
Full Time
Manager
1 weeks ago
Application DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceAI EnablementPeople ManagementSolution ArchitectureData Modeling
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About the Role
Bennett Jones is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead application development, BI, and AI enablement teams in Calgary. This player-coach role involves people management, technical architecture ownership, and embedding AI-assisted workflows.
Key Skills for This Role
Application DevelopmentBusiness IntelligenceAI EnablementPeople ManagementSolution ArchitectureData Modeling
Responsibilities
- Directly manage application developers and a BI analyst, including coaching, performance management, and career development
- Build a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement
- Own the technical architecture and design of applications and BI solutions
- Ensure high standards for code quality, data quality, security, reliability, and maintainability
- Act as the primary technical escalation point while strengthening team autonomy
- Own data models, reporting quality, and analytics reliability
- Ensure BI solutions are insight driven, governed, and aligned to business needs
- Work hands on with the BI analyst when required
- Embed AI tools (e.g., Copilot) into development and analytics workflows as default practice
- Improve SDLC efficiency through better patterns for testing, review, documentation, and delivery
- Turn AI experimentation into repeatable, safe, and scalable engineering practices
- Partner with PMO on delivery execution while retaining ownership of how solutions are built
Requirements
- College diploma or university degree in computer science, information systems
- 5+ years of management experience
- Prior people leadership experience managing software engineers and/or BI/analytics professionals
- Strong background in application development and solution architecture
- Practical experience delivering BI and analytics solutions (data models, reporting, governance)
- Comfort being hands on when needed
- Experience improving engineering processes and embedding modern delivery practices
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills
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The Role
- We are looking for a hands on Engineering Manager who combines technical leadership, people management, and delivery accountability across application development, business intelligence, and AI enabled engineering practices.
- This is a player coach role responsible for building strong engineers and analysts, owning solution quality end to end, and embedding modern, AI assisted ways of working into everyday delivery.
Essential Functions People & Team Leadership
- Directly manage application developers and a BI analyst, including coaching, performance management, and career development.
- Build a culture of accountability, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Set clear expectations for quality, delivery discipline, and AI assisted ways of working.
Essential Functions Technical & Solution Ownership
- Own the technical architecture and design of applications and BI solutions.
- Ensure high standards for code quality, data quality, security, reliability, and maintainability.
- Act as the primary technical escalation point while strengthening team autonomy and local decision making.
Essential Functions BI & Analytics Leadership (Applied)
- Own data models, reporting quality, and analytics reliability.
- Ensure BI solutions are insight driven, governed, and aligned to business needs.
- Work hands on with the BI analyst when required, without becoming a reporting factory.
Essential Functions AI Enabled Engineering & Process Improvement
- Embed AI tools (e.g., Copilot) into development and analytics workflows as default practice.
- Improve SDLC efficiency through better patterns for testing, review, documentation, and delivery.
- Turn AI experimentation into repeatable, safe, and scalable engineering practices.
Essential Functions Delivery Partnership
- Partner with PMO on delivery execution while retaining ownership of how solutions are built.
- Translate business needs into scalable, maintainable technical solutions.
- Reduce delivery risk by strengthening local ownership and decision making.
Qualifications
- College diploma or university degree in computer science, information systems, and 5+ years of management experience.
- Prior people leadership experience managing software engineers and/or BI/analytics professionals.
- Strong background in application development and solution architecture.
- Practical experience delivering BI and analytics solutions (data models, reporting, governance).
- Comfort being hands on when needed, without defaulting to personal delivery.
- Experience improving engineering processes and embedding modern delivery practices.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
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