Senior Analyst, Data Governance

Canadian Tire Bank; Oakville; On-site; CAD 64,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

Canadian Tire Bank is seeking a Data Governance Leader in Oakville, Canada to drive standards, policies, and controls across the data lifecycle. You will collaborate with Legal, Privacy, Risk, and IT to ensure regulatory compliance and ethical AI governance for enterprise processes.

You will mentor analysts, manage large data governance projects, and continuously improve data quality and literacy across the organization. This is a senior, on-site role with visibility to executive leadership.

Qualifications

• Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or a related field.
• Proven experience with corporate data environments supporting cross‑functional governance.
• Advanced PL/SQL skills with 5+ years of experience in structured data environments.
• Strong knowledge of BI and modern data warehousing techniques; cloud solutions such as Azure or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Lead development, implementation, maintenance, monitoring, and enforcement of data governance standards and policies.
• Mentor junior data governance analysts and collaborate with executives and IT teams.
• Oversee data management policies, KPIs, metadata, and data sharing agreements; drive risk and privacy controls.

Skills

PL/SQL

BI & Data Warehousing

ETL/ELT

API & event streaming

Data governance

Data quality

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

CDMP (asset)

Education

Post-secondary education in Computer Science / Information Systems Management

Tools

Databricks Unity Catalog

IBM Cloud Pak for Databricks

Azure

GCP

Microsoft Visio

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

What You Will Do:

Data Governance Leadership: Lead the development, implementation, maintenance, monitoring, and enforcement of data governance standards, policies, procedures, and controls to ensure adherence to privacy, compliance, risk, regulatory, and legal requirements. This includes AI Governance to ensure ethical use and compliance with regulatory standards for AI-driven processes. Team Leadership: Mentor junior data governance analysts and other team members. Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate closely with executive leadership, IT departments, business units, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Risk teams, data producers and consumers, and IT data platform teams to align on data governance goals and support the operationalization of a robust data governance framework. Partner with internal teams to foster secure, efficient, and cooperative data sharing. Promote data literacy by developing materials and conducting training on best practices. Facilitate data governance forums for various data communities (stewards, owners, users). Policy Development: Oversee the creation and enforcement of data management policies to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Shape the data governance accountabilities and operating model and enable data stewardship. Data Quality Assurance: Choose tools and define processes for profiling, monitoring, and integration, and implement frameworks that prioritize business needs and measure quality improvements against defined rules and standards. Lead the development and evolution of data governance metrics and KPIs; monitor & measure the overall efficacy of the data governance program. Proactively monitor data, metadata, and reference data to ensure quality across the CTB data lifecycle. Implement and leverage data governance tools and platforms to enable capabilities; manage and maintain metadata and other data governance artifacts such as glossaries, classifications, and lineage. Risk Management: Identify potential risks related to data governance and develop mitigation strategies. Enable data sharing and collaboration across teams and departments; ensure proper data access, usability, and monitoring of data sharing agreements. Project Oversight: Lead large-scale data governance projects and initiatives from inception to completion. Stay updated on industry trends, standards, and regulatory requirements related to data governance; recommend appropriate modifications to existing policies and practices.

What You Bring:

Post‑secondary education in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or a related field. Proven experience with corporate data environments supporting cross‑functional governance. Advanced PL/SQL skills with 5+ years of experience in structured data environments. Strong knowledge of business intelligence, modern data warehousing techniques, cloud solutions such as Azure or GCP. Experience with ETL/ELT processes and modern integration frameworks like API and event streaming. Proficiency in IBM Cloud Pak for Databricks and/or Databricks Unity Catalog. Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Visio, PowerPoint, and Excel. Expertise in creating/enforcing data governance policies to ensure data integrity, privacy, compliance, security. Ability to work with Legal, Privacy, Compliance, and Risk partners. Hands‑on experience with data analysis, quality assessment, metadata management. Excellent communication skills for presenting complex concepts to non‑technical audiences. Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; ability to problem‑solve and handle ambiguity. Effective stakeholder management; ability to build trusted relationships and influence decision‑making. Experience in process design/improvement initiatives and leveraging automation. CDMP certification is an asset.

Broadband Salary Range: $64,000 – 106,000 Ourtypical hiring range is between $80,000 and $85,000. Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role‑specific requirements. For critical roles, the compensation offering will be reviewed to ensure alignment with market rate and conditions and the unique value you bring to the role.

This posting represents an existing vacancy within our organization.

About Us

At Canadian Tire Services Limited/Canadian Tire Bank, it is our mandate to continue to create innovative and rewarding financial solutions for our customers. Our growing suite of products and services showcase the dynamic contributions from our employees and our success is driven by a strong vision, loyal customers, and our ability to build teams that reflect the diverse customers and communities in which we live and work. Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do.

We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity‑seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.

We are one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With world‑class owned brands and exciting market‑leading merchandising strategies, we are continually innovating with purpose: to excite and serve Canadian customers from coast-to-coast. We are connected to communities, big and small, from coast-to-coast, offering products and services that reflect the diverse nature of every one of them. From sports to outdoors, automobiles to homes, we know and understand life in Canada like no other retailer.

If you’re ready to take on new challenges – be it in digital, IT, marketing, data & analytics, merchandising, or one of the many other roles we have – there is a place for you here.