Data Analyst Student - (4 Months) - Winter Term 2027

Canadian Tire Corporation; Oakville; On-site; CAD 32,000 - 51,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunities

Product discounts

Job summary

Canadian Tire Corporation seeks a student in a Computer Science or related program to support data governance and data management standards. You will help assess the data environment, monitor data quality, and maintain data models and metadata artefacts, collaborating with IT and business data owners.

You will gain hands-on experience with SQL, relational databases, and tools like Hive/Snowflake, while developing communication skills and a collaborative work style in a student-friendly

Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a Computer Science or related academic programme.
• Foundational knowledge of programming concepts and languages.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases and writing SQL queries; Oracle experience preferred.
• Exposure to tools like Hive, Snowflake, Python, R, shell scripting, SAS, Linux, Databricks, IBM Knowledge Catalog.

Responsibilities

• Promote and support data governance and data management standards, policies, procedures, and controls across the organisation.
• Assess the current state of the data environment to identify improvement opportunities, including inefficient table structures and data gaps.
• Proactively monitor data, metadata, and reference data, and support the data stewardship community in addressing issues.
• Maintain data models and artefacts such as glossaries, catalogues, mappings, lineage, and classifications.
• Support data integration by liaising with IT, data owners and stewards; perform data profiling as required.
• Maintain communication with data stakeholders across the data lifecycle and support the Bank’s data governance framework.

Skills

Communication

Curious thinker

Goal-driven

Collaborative

Adaptable

Willing to learn

Transparency & accountability

Education

Currently enrolled in CS or related program

Tools

Microsoft Office

SQL queries

Oracle databases

Hive

Snowflake

Python

R

Shell scripting

Job description

Our Commitment to Students At Canadian Tire, we are committed to providing students with a supportive and collaborative environment that fosters knowledge sharing and offers key experiences to help them develop their capabilities through projects and objectives. We believe in setting specific and measurable goals that align with our business objectives to support learning and help students achieve their full potential. Our culture emphasizes learning from others, continuous improvement, agility, growth, and innovation, and we are invested in building a talented, diverse workforce for the future of Canada and Canadian Tire. Additionally, we are dedicated to building strong relationships with our student employees by engaging with them throughout their education and career pursuits and creating opportunities for ongoing communication and relationship building.

What you’ll do

• Promote and support data governance and data management standards, policies, procedures, and controls across the organisation.
• Assess the current state of the data environment to identify improvement opportunities, including inefficient table structures, ineffective load processes, redundant, obsolete, or trivial (R.O.T.) data, and metadata or reference data gaps.
• Proactively monitor data, metadata, and reference data, and support the data stewardship community in addressing data quality and data integrity issues.
• Maintain data models and supporting artefacts, including data glossaries, catalogues, data mappings, data lineage, classifications, and related documentation.
• Support data integration initiatives by acting as a liaison between IT, business data owners and stewards, and subject matter experts; perform data profiling and data discovery as required.
• Maintain clear and open communication with data stakeholders across the data lifecycle, from producers to consumers, and actively support the Bank’s data governance framework.

Who you are

• A clear and confident communicator with the ability to explain technical concepts to varied audiences.
• A curious and creative thinker who identifies opportunities and can reason through abstract ideas.
• A goal‑driven individual with a strong interest in continuous improvement.
• A collaborative team member who builds positive working relationships across functions.
• Flexible and adaptable, with the ability to prioritise work in response to changing business needs.
• Technically grounded, with a willingness to learn and apply new tools and concepts.
• Demonstrates transparency, accountability, agility, and openness to learning from others.

What you’ve done

• Currently enrolled in a Computer Science or related academic programme.
• Proficient Microsoft Office user, including Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
• Foundational knowledge of programming concepts and languages.
• Hands‑on experience with structured relational databases and writing SQL queries; experience with Oracle databases is preferred.
• Exposure to one or more of the following tools or technologies is considered an asset:
  Hive, Snowflake, Python, R, shell scripting, SAS, basic Linux commands, Databricks, IBM Knowledge Catalog.

We're always looking for great talent! In addition to competitive pay, we offer:

• Career growth opportunities and product discounts

Broadband Salary Range:$23.00– $37.00.

Our typical hiring range is between $23.00 and $30.00 CAD Hourly. Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, job-related knowledge, skills and competencies, market location, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role-specific requirements.

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