Salary for Executive-level / Director Data Engineer in Canada during 2025

💰 The median Salary for Executive-level / Director Data Engineer in Canada during 2025 is USD 208,083

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The average executive-level / director Data Engineer salary lies between USD 144,100 and USD 211,800 in Canada. It represents the overall compensation/gross salary amount for the working year (before deductions like social security, taxes and other contributions), not including equity/stock options or similar benefits.

Job title
Data Engineer
Experience
Executive-level / Director
Region
Canada
Salary year
2025
Sample size
8
Top 10%
$ 312,000
Top 25%
$ 211,800
Median
$ 208,083
Bottom 25%
$ 144,100
Bottom 10%
$ 113,900

Region represents the primary country of residence of an employee during the year (or residence for tax purposes). All data shown are full-time equivalent (FTE) salaries. Part-time salary information has been extrapolated to its FTE value.

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Salary trend

Top 20 Job Tags for Executive-level / Director Data Engineer roles

The three most common job tag items assiciated with executive-level / director Data Engineer job listings are Engineering, Architecture and Pipelines. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job tags in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where associated with them during that period:

Engineering | 308 jobs Architecture | 236 jobs Pipelines | 215 jobs Python | 175 jobs Data pipelines | 169 jobs SQL | 167 jobs Security | 153 jobs AWS | 152 jobs Computer Science | 149 jobs ETL | 142 jobs Data quality | 137 jobs Spark | 132 jobs Machine Learning | 130 jobs Data governance | 124 jobs Azure | 120 jobs Big Data | 110 jobs Agile | 110 jobs Java | 109 jobs Testing | 104 jobs Snowflake | 95 jobs

Top 20 Job Perks/Benefits for Executive-level / Director Data Engineer roles

The three most common job benefits and perks assiciated with executive-level / director Data Engineer job listings are Career development, Health care and Startup environment. Below you find a list of the 20 most occuring job perks or benefits in 2025 and the number of open jobs that where offering them during that period:

Career development | 241 jobs Health care | 125 jobs Startup environment | 83 jobs Competitive pay | 75 jobs Equity / stock options | 71 jobs Flex hours | 71 jobs Insurance | 60 jobs Salary bonus | 60 jobs Flex vacation | 51 jobs Team events | 48 jobs Wellness | 44 jobs Parental leave | 43 jobs Medical leave | 39 jobs 401(k) matching | 23 jobs Fitness / gym | 12 jobs Transparency | 12 jobs Home office stipend | 9 jobs Flexible spending account | 7 jobs Conferences | 6 jobs Unlimited paid time off | 6 jobs

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