Data Platform Specialist

Make-A-Wish Canada; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 64,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group health and dental premiums

RRSP matching

3 weeks annual vacation

Hybrid work environment

Wellness program

Job summary

Make‑A‑Wish Canada is seeking a Data Platform Specialist to build and maintain data pipelines and trusted data foundations that support fundraising, marketing, reporting and decision-making. This hands-on role spans data engineering, analytics, BI, and stakeholder problem solving across teams.

The position is full-time, hybrid, and can be based anywhere in Canada, with a hiring range of CAD 64,000 to CAD 75,000.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s-level education or equivalent in a data-focused field.
• 3+ years in data engineering, analytics, or BI roles.
• Experience with modern cloud data platforms is required.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines across multiple platforms.
• Develop and optimize data lakehouse architectures and datasets.
• Create datasets for reporting, forecasting, and segmentation.
• Collaborate with teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

Skills

Data engineering

Cloud platforms

Data pipelines

Salesforce CRM

Education

Post secondary in data analytics / CS / info systems

Tools

Salesforce CRM

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Data Factory

Synapse

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

\"The best prescription I've ever given is a wish.\"

• Dr. Jeremy Friedman, Associate Paediatrician-in-Chief, SickKids Hospital & Medical Advisor for Make-A-Wish® Canada

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST WISH?

Wishes Are Medicine— a vital part of a child’s treatment journey that helps restore strength, hope, and resilience. For over 40 years, we’ve granted more than 40,000 wishes. Research shows that prescribed wishes can improve commitment to treatment, reduce emergency room visits by half, and deliver lasting health benefits.

Recognized as a Great Place to Work® since 2023, we’ve also been named one of the Best Workplaces™ Led by Women (2025) and one of the Top 100 Best Workplaces™ for Giving Back (2024).

Do you want to be part of an organization that is child-focused, values employee experience and is an inspiring workplace? If so, Make‑A‑Wish Canada is for you!

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Meaningful opportunities to make an impact and change the lives of children with critical illnesses within your community and across Canada
• A collaborative team environment with a rewarding employment experience where you feel valued and inspired
• An attractive compensation package that includes group health and dental premiums fully covered by the Foundation and RRSP contribution matching
• Annual vacation starting at three weeks and additional paid leaves such as personal days and Wish hours
• Work/life balance and flexibility, including a hybrid working environment
• Employee Wellness Program and other corporate discounts
• Continuous learning, development and internal training opportunities
• Fun employee activities, contests, and more!

WHERE YOU COME IN

We are looking for a Data Platform Specialist to join our team at Make‑A‑Wish Canada. Reporting to the Director, Data Analytics & Insights, you will build and maintain the trusted data foundation that supports fundraising, marketing, reporting, segmentation, and organizational decision-making. This hands‑on role works at the intersection of data engineering, analytics, business intelligence, and stakeholder problem solving.

This role can be based anywhere in Canada and is a full‑time, hybrid, permanent position. The hiring range for this role is $64,000 to $75,000.

What You Will Do

• Build, maintain, monitor, and troubleshoot data pipelines across Salesforce CRM, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Data360, DonorDrive, Microsoft Fabric, external files, and third‑party platforms.
• Develop and optimize Fabric Lakehouse, Data Factory, notebooks, and data engineering workloads, including automation of manual data preparation and refresh processes.
• Design and maintain scalable bronze, silver, and gold data layers, data models, fact and dimension tables, semantic models, and curated reporting datasets.
• Develop datasets and data assets supporting Tableau, KPIs, forecasting, segmentation, campaign analysis, personalization, and organizational reporting.
• Develop audience segmentation datasets, supporter profiles, Data Extensions, SQL activities, automations, and integrations to enable trusted donor and supporter data activation.
• Clean, standardize, validate, document, and monitor donor, campaign, donation, contact, and engagement data, including identity resolution and deduplication.
• Maintain source‑to‑target mappings, business rules, refresh schedules, data limitations, and documentation supporting privacy, security, stewardship, and responsible data use.
• Partner with fundraising, marketing, finance, business applications, and analytics teams to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions.
• Define and maintain trusted metrics for donor counts, revenue, retention, acquisition, engagement, campaign performance, forecasting, and lifetime value.
• Other duties, as required.

What You Bring

• Post secondary education in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Analytics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 3+ years of experience in data engineering, data integration, analytics engineering, business intelligence, or another data focused role.
• Experience with modern cloud‑based data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, Snowflake, or similar technologies.
• Experience building and supporting data pipelines and integrating data from multiple systems and platforms.
• Experience with Salesforce CRM is considered an asset.
• Experience working in a nonprofit or charitable organization is considered an asset.
• A clear Criminal Background Check is required.

YOUR WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Hybrid work environment (2 days in-office, 3 days remote per week) with occasional requirement to work outside of traditional office hours.

Physical/Mental Effort

• Work under pressure of tight deadlines, with a high‑volume workload, and with multiple demands & changing priorities.

Make‑A‑Wish Canada provides equal opportunity in employment and encourages applications from all qualified candidates.

Reasonable accommodations due to disability are available on request at any stage of the hiring process.

Our Commitment to IDEA

Make‑A‑Wish Canada (MAWC) is committed to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA). We believe that it is essential to our mission that we build a diverse, balanced, and vibrant workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve and seek to serve. Research has shown that candidates from underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. Therefore, we ask that even if you do not see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on this posting, to still apply.

Recruitment process

Once applications are reviewed, we will contact our shortlisted candidates. Our typical process includes a phone screen, one or two interviews, and reference checking, followed by an offer and a criminal background check for the successful candidate.

We would like to thank all applicants for their interest in working with us!

About Make‑A‑Wish® Canada

In the past 40 years, Make‑A‑Wish Canada has granted over 40,000 wishes across the country, with over 1,800 of them last year alone. As an independently operating affiliate of Make‑A‑Wish International, Make‑A‑Wish Canada is part of the network of the world’s leading children’s wish‑granting organization. We serve children in every community in Canada, and in more than 50 countries worldwide.