Senior Manager, BI and Analytics Engineering

Socket.dev; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 154,000; Full time

Job summary

Loblaw Digital in Toronto is seeking a Senior Manager, BI and Analytics Engineering to lead the Analytics team and advance how data is used to understand customers and measure digital performance.

You will build trusted data foundations, govern metrics, enable self-service analytics, and drive AI-enabled analytics across product and business teams. This role shapes analytics strategy and requires strong leadership and collaboration to deliver actionable insights that move business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative, technical or business-related field.
• Advanced degree is an asset.
• 8+ years in analytics engineering/BI with leadership experience.
• Strong SQL, data modeling and analytics engineering with cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing analytics team.
• Define and evolve analytics strategy, standards and roadmap.
• Build trusted, scalable analytics foundations with reusable data models and metrics.
• Champion analytics engineering best practices including CI/CD and testing.
• Drive self-service analytics through governed datasets and semantic layers.
• Use analytics to identify opportunities, diagnose issues and measure impact.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable analytics solutions and insights.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

Cloud data platforms

dbt

BI visualization tools

AI analytics

People leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative/technical/business field

Advanced degree is an asset

Tools

BigQuery

Snowflake

dbt

Looker

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

At Loblaw Digital, we know that our customers expect the best from us. Whether that means building the best, most innovative online shopping experience, or designing an app that will impact the lives of people across the country, we’re up for the challenge. From our office in Downtown Toronto, we’ve created leading eCommerce experiences in the online grocery shopping, beauty, pharmacy, and apparel spaces, and we’re only just getting started.

Why is this role important?

As the Senior Manager, BI and Analytics Engineering, you will play a key leadership role in advancing how Loblaw Digital uses data to understand our customers, measure the performance of our digital experiences, and make better decisions.You will lead our Analytics team and help strengthen the capabilities that connect trusted data foundations with high-quality analysis and insights. This includes advancing our practices across analytics engineering, data modeling, governed metrics, self-service analytics, reporting and insights.

You will also help shape how we use AI to modernize analytics — making it easier for teams to access trusted data, explore business questions and move from questions to insights faster.

You will work closely with Product, Technology, Data and business teams to turn complex digital data into trusted, accessible and actionable information that improves decision-making and customer outcomes.

What you’ll do:

• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team of analytics engineers and analytics professionals.
• Define and evolve the Analytics Engineering and Analytics strategy, standards and roadmap across Loblaw Digital.
• Build trusted, scalable analytics foundations through reusable data models, consistent metrics, testing, documentation and data quality.
• Champion analytics engineering best practices, including modular modeling, version control, CI/CD and code review.
• Drive self-service and AI-enabled analytics through well-governed datasets, semantic layers and intuitive tools.
• Use customer, product and business analytics to identify opportunities, diagnose issues and measure impact.
• Partner across Data, Engineering, Product, Marketing, Trading and business teams to deliver scalable analytics solutions and actionable insights.

Does This Sound Like You?

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative, technical or business-related field; advanced degree is an asset.
• 8+ years of experience in analytics engineering, analytics, product analytics or BI, including people leadership.
• Strong SQL, data modeling and analytics engineering skills, with experience using cloud data platforms and tools such as BigQuery, Snowflake, dbt or similar.
• Experience building scalable data models, trusted metrics and reusable datasets, with strong practices in testing, documentation and data quality.
• Experience enabling self-service analytics through well-governed datasets, semantic layers and BI platforms such as Looker, Tableau, Power BI or similar.
• Strong understanding of digital and product analytics, including customer journeys, funnels, conversion, engagement and experimentation.
• Experience applying AI and generative AI to analytics, with an understanding of validation, data quality and responsible governance.
• Strong business acumen, problem-solving, communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to bridge technical and business teams.

How You’ll Succeed:

At Loblaw Digital, we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture.We believe great people model our values, are authentic, build trust and make connections.

We’re able to keep innovating because our colleagues are passionate about their work and excited about the future of eCommerce.

If you have big ideas, undeniable enthusiasm, and thrive in a collaborative, creative, and diverse group, we’ll get along just fine.

Looking for a challenge? Good. Love an innovative work environment? Even better.

Employment Type:

Full time

Type of Role:

Regular

Hiring Range / Échelle salariale à l’embauche :$120,000.00 - $154,000.00 / 120.000,00$ - 154.000,00$ (per year / par an)A candidate’s experience and knowledge as well as the geographical region in which the position is located may be factored into the pay a candidate receives for this position. This posting is for an existing vacancy. The Company uses artificial intelligence for the purpose of screening, assessing and/or selecting applicants for this position. / L’expérience et les connaissances d’un candidat ainsi que la région géographique dans laquelle le poste est situé peuvent être prises en compte dans la rémunération qu’un candidat reçoit pour ce poste. Cette offre d’emploi concerne un poste vacant existant. L’entreprise utilise l’intelligence artificielle dans le but de filtrer, d’évaluer et/ou de sélectionner les candidats à ce poste.

Loblaw Digital recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the products we sell, the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired.

In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.