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We are looking for a Lead, Data Development, AI Platform to lead the team building and operating the technical platform behind Hootsuite's Analytics MCP. This includes routing infrastructure, orchestration services, agent infrastructure, and data pipelines that enable reliable AI-driven analysis at scale. You will set technical direction for the team, strengthen engineering practices, and translate target architecture and integration standards into secure, production-grade systems that Data Analytics & AI teams can confidently build on. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will stay close to the code while owning delivery outcomes, engineering quality, and the team's culture of craft and accountability. You will develop strong, well-reasoned recommendations on how the platform and orchestration architecture should evolve, seek approval at the Senior Manager and Director level, and then guide the team through disciplined execution. You will also partner closely with AI Context & Integration and AI Data Architecture to ensure the platform, context layer, semantic layer, and downstream agent workflows operate as one coherent system. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Lead the design and delivery of the orchestration layer that connects the Analytics MCP platform across its most complex surfaces, including query execution across schemas and models, federated data access between the data warehouse and external source systems, and multi-step agent workflows for cross-functional business processes. Develop clear technical recommendations for platform and orchestration architecture evolution, align those recommendations with Senior Manager and Director-level direction, and guide the team through disciplined execution within the approved architecture. Own the operational reliability, scalability, quality, and observability standards for core Analytics MCP components, including routing and agent infrastructure. Guide the team to build and operate these systems to prod

Job Title: Co-Op, IT Operations - Summer 2026 Location : Vancouver, BC (on-site) Term : 4 months Start Date: September 14th, 2026 Openings : 1 Overview : We’re looking for a Co-op on the team to help us provide IT support to Hootsuite owls and solve both small as well as large technology problems. Under close supervision, you’ll support the Helpdesk ticket queue, deploy laptops plus hardware peripherals, AV challenges and work closely with the Global IT team to execute IT projects. This position is based in Vancouver, Canada. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Support the build and deployment of laptops for new users as well as end users as needed Support closing of our Macbook leases by configuring, wiping, recording laptop data as required Set up, install, modify, configure, maintain desk hardware in the office Receive offboarded hardware and update workflows as well as management system based on that Input and update assets in the hardware asset management system as governed by Helpdesk’s processes and procedures Work closely with Hootsuite’s global Helpdesk team to identify and resolve issues by following processes Document procedures and solutions in our ticketing system and follow up with clients to ensure full resolution of issues Set up, install, and troubleshoot Google Meet Hardware in the office Assist with setting up loaner laptops to AV gear for interviews or smaller company events Keep team documentation updated as processes and stakeholder need change Assist in departmental projects that require IT time and resources Creating tickets and moving tasks through agile workflow as work is completed WHAT YOU’LL NEED: Experience troubleshooting basic to advanced Mac problems Experience troubleshooting Windows OS problems and working knowledge of Dell laptops Experience working with meeting room hardware, AV gear to support meetings Experience working in agile environment a bonus Proven ability to translate technical issues into understandable language for end-

ROLE DESCRIPTION: We’re looking for a Senior Platform Backend Developer who can help us support the development organization to deliver value to customers in a reliable, efficient, and safe manner. You’ll be working in a focused team that owns one or more pieces of the production application environment and the developer experience, you will own and deliver in service of quarterly goals on the team. ABOUT THE TEAM: This role is within our Backend Platform team. The team primarily uses Go, Scala, and PHP and has expertise in technologies such as Kafka, various AWS services, and some infrastructure-as-code tools. Your primary focus will be on developing services and tools for our product development teams as well as modernizing our existing platform. Based out of British Columbia, you will report to the Senior Manager, Software Development, DevOps. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Design and build software - tools, libraries, automation, services, and glue scripts Responsible for the reliability, security, and integrity of our large, cloud-based platform Participate in a flexible on-call rotation Lead by owning project milestones, epics or features Practice continuous improvement, contributing to culture, process, and direction in your team and across our department Develop processes and automation to eliminate repetitive tasks Design and build our infrastructure platform Identify and implement new platform features Research and evaluate new technologies Refactor, rewrite or retire existing platform features Operate our developer experience and production application environments Diagnose and repair our distributed systems Perform maintenance, upgrades, and migrations Control or eliminate repetitive tasks, alert noise, and business-as-usual work Enable development teams Provide executable interfaces to our infrastructure platform Provide tools and best practices to support the entire software development lifecycle Collaborate with others across the orga