Data Architect

Sonepar Canada; Surrey; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits program

RRSP matching

Employee Assistance Program

Tuition Reimbursement

Career path

Job summary

Sonepar Canada is seeking a Data Architect to design and evolve enterprise data architecture, bridging business, data governance and IT teams to ensure trusted, high-quality data across systems.

You will translate business requirements into scalable, governed data structures, own governance deliverables for domains, contribute to canonical data models, and align with privacy, security, and enterprise architecture strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Proven experience in data architecture, data modelling, or related roles.
• Experience with data governance or data management frameworks.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models in alignment with enterprise standards.
• Translate business requirements into scalable and governed data structures.
• Contribute to canonical data models across domains (e.g., customer, product).
• Ensure alignment with integration, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Own and drive data governance deliverables for assigned domains or initiatives.
• Participate in governance forums and influence decisions.
• Contribute to data catalog solutions and governance tooling.
• Define and validate data flows between systems with governance alignment.
• Support governance adoption across projects.

Skills

Data modelling

SQL

Relational DBs

Data governance

Stakeholder communication

Bilingual English/French

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Data catalog

Governance tools

Job description

Sonepar Canada is an independent family-owned company with global market leadership in the business-to-business distribution of electrical, industrial and safety products and related solutions. In Canada, we are represented by 6 locally managed electrical and industrial distributors and have over 100+ locations with coverage in 9 provinces.

We are a proud member of the Sonepar Group, the world's largest privately-held electrical distributor. The Sonepar Group is present in more than 40 countries with over 45,000 employees.

To explore and learn more about Sonepar opportunities, please visit www.career.sonepar.com

What’s In It For You?

• You will be joining a market leader with over 40 years of experience to help you elevate your potential.
• You will be working for the world's #1 privately held business to business distributor of electrical products and related solutions.
• A chance to get involved in the forever growing electrical industry.
• We house the largest inventory to better service our customers and deliver on sales commitments.
• An opportunity for career development across many business departments within our organization.

The Data Architect is responsible for designing and evolving enterprise data architecture while actively contributing to the execution and continuous improvement of the organization’s data governance framework.

This role plays a critical function within the enterprise data governance framework and combines hands-on data modelling and design with ownership of key governance deliverables at the domain or project level, while ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements (e.g., privacy, security) and enterprise architecture strategies.

The position acts as a bridge between business, data governance, and technical teams, enabling trusted, high-quality data across systems.

Major Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models in alignment with enterprise standards.
• Translate business requirements into scalable and governed data structures.
• Contribute to the evolution of canonical data models across domains (e.g., customer, product).
• Ensure alignment with integration, analytics, and AI use cases.
• Own and drive data governance deliverables for assigned domains or initiatives.
• Participate actively in governance forums and contribute to decisions.
• Contribute to the implementation and ongoing use of data catalog solutions.
• Define and validate data flows between systems, ensuring consistency and governance alignment.
• Support adoption of governance processes across projects.

Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or related field 5–8 years of experience in data architecture, data modelling, or related roles
• Proven experience working with data governance or data management frameworks
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills with a pragmatic mindset for innovation
• Strong proficiency in Data modelling (conceptual, logical, physical) and SQL and relational data structures
• Experience with Data catalog and governance tools
• Strong understanding of data governance principles (ownership, quality, lifecycle)
• Ability to balance hands-on delivery with structured governance
• Effective stakeholder communication and facilitation
• Analytical thinking and problem-solving
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Fully fluent in English and French preferred
• We offer a competitive salary, plus a full set of benefits, including:
• Flexible benefits program allowing you to choose from options that best fit you and your dependents’ needs. Benefit options include: Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Spending Account & RRSP matching.
• Employee Assistance Program, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Discounts and a career path.
• Regardless of your benefits program, you will receive company paid Life Insurance, and employee paid disability.

More information on Sonepar Canada:

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Sonepar places the planet and diversity and inclusion at the core of its vision driving our business ethos.

Today, Sonepar is the leading distributor of energy-efficient products, pioneering the energy transition and making sustainability a priority.

At Sonepar, we firmly believe that every action is crucial in safeguarding the environment, driving our commitment to a more sustainable future.

We have accelerated our own transition to efficient generation and use of electrical energy across our business and champion the innovation of sustainable solutions in the market.

This commitment is tangible in our detailed Global CSR report, to learn more please visit https://www.sonepar.com/en/commitments/sustainability.

Sonepar has been recognized as a Diversity Leader by the Financial Times’ 2024 Diversity Leaders ranking and was awarded GEEIS Certification in 2022.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, welcoming submissions from all candidates.

We believe in creating a work environment where everyone can feel safe, use their voice, and know that they belong.

Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) is a central focus of our global, strategic impact plan.

We value diversity and inclusion in the workplace because it allows us to better meet the needs of the communities we serve.

It helps us foster greater creativity, breadth of experience, and it’s essential to our success as an organization.

All qualified individuals, regardless of race, ethnic or national origin, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, neurodiversity, disability status, gender identity, veteran status or any other aspect which makes them unique are encouraged to apply.

Sonepar is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes submissions from all candidates.

Accommodation is available to all applicants upon request.

If selected for an interview, please advise the Sonepar representative of your accommodation needs at that time.

We will work with all applicants to accommodate their accessibility needs.

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