Senior Manager, Data Analytics - Governance

ODAIA; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 123,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading analytics firm in Mississauga is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Analytics – Governance. This role involves leading the design and delivery of analytics and establishing data governance practices. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in data governance and experience with BI tools like Tableau and Power BI. The pay range is between $123,120 - $150,480 based on experience.

Qualifications

• Experience with data governance, data management, or data quality programs within a corporate or regulated environment.
• Proficient in data tools and technologies, along with strong SQL and data analysis skills.
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of decision ready analytics that drive business performance.
• Develop and enhance BI solutions that drive business decisions across various sectors.
• Contribute to governance roadmap for Walmart Canada, aligned with stakeholders.

Skills

Data governance

Data management

Data analysis

SQL

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Management, Data Science, or related discipline

Tools

Tableau

Looker

Power BI

Job description

Senior Manager, Data Analytics - Governance

Mississauga, Canada – Marketing

The Senior Manager, Data Analytics – Governance leads the design and delivery of decision ready analytics that drive business performance while establishing foundational data governance practices in partnership with various stakeholders in Walmart Canada, Walmart International, and Global Technology teams. This role also owns high impact analytics roadmaps, BI solutions, and adoption; and helps define governance standards, stewardship, and tooling so our data and reporting are trusted, secure, and compliant across business units.

What you’ll do

Analytics Strategy and Delivery

• Strategy & Roadmap: Partner with business and technology teams to design and execute a scalable analytics roadmap; translate goals into prioritized use cases with requirements, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Solution Delivery: Lead the development and enhancement of BI solutions (dashboards, KPI frameworks, self‑service datasets) and analytics assets that drive merchandising, supply chain, eCommerce, stores, finance, and marketing decisions.
• Architecture & Scalability: Collaborate with data engineering/platform teams to ensure semantic layers, curated datasets, and pipelines are performant, governed, and reusable.
• UAT & Adoption: Manage user acceptance testing for analytics solutions; improve testing documentation, resolve defects, and run training/office hours to drive adoption and business continuity.
• Stakeholder Management: Facilitate cross‑functional forums, align on priorities and trade‑offs, and communicate progress/risks to leaders; ensure timely delivery of milestones.
• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of analysts and BI developers; set standards for analysis quality, visualization, documentation, and stakeholder engagement.

Data Governance

• Operating Model & Alignment: Contribute to a phased governance roadmap for Walmart Canada, aligned with stakeholders across Walmart Canada and Walmart International; participate in governance councils and domain working groups.
• Policies & Standards: Help define and socialize standards for business definitions, metadata, lineage, access, retention, and data sharing; ensure these are embedded in analytics workflows and tooling.
• Stewardship: Identify data owners/stewards for priority domains; establish RACI and accountability for definitions, data quality rules, and issue remediation.
• Metadata, Lineage & Catalog: Drive onboarding of analytics assets (dashboards, metrics, curated tables) into the catalog; ensure business glossaries and technical lineage are maintained and discoverable.
• Data Quality Management: Define critical data elements (CDEs) for analytics use cases; implement monitoring, issue management workflows, and executive scorecards to track data quality trends.
• Access, Privacy & Risk: Partner with Security/Privacy/Legal to identify and manage sensitive information (such as PI) within analytics datasets, apply least‑privilege access and data minimization, and ensure regulatory compliance.

Program & Vendor Management

• Lead end‑to‑end delivery for high‑priority analytics and governance initiatives—scope, planning, risk mitigation, change management, and value realization.
• Manage product/technology partners and vendors (contracts, budgets, and SLAs) supporting analytics platforms, BI tools, and governance solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Management, Data Science, Computer Science, or related discipline.
• Experience with data governance, data management, or data quality programs within a corporate or regulated environment.
• Proficient in data tools and technologies, along with strong SQL and data analysis skills.
• Experience working with BI reporting tools like Tableau, Looker and Power BI.
• Familiarity of regulatory and compliance standards is a plus.
• Familiarity with Walmart systems and technology stack is a plus.

The pay range for this position is $123 120,00 - $150 480,00. Pay will be determined based on relevant experience.

Minimum Qualifications

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Preferred Qualifications

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Walmart will accommodate the disability‑related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location

1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada