Senior Manager, Data Products

Extendicare; Markham; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Continuous mentorship

Growth opportunities

Meaningful work

Employee Family Assistance Program

Robust benefits package

Job summary

Extendicare in Markham, Ontario, seeks a Senior Manager, Data Products to build a portfolio of trusted, AI-ready data products powering analytics, reporting and agentic workflows across the enterprise. This product leadership role blends hands-on analytics with governance to ensure data is defined, trusted and consumable.

You will lead a small team, partner with IT and Privacy, and work with senior leaders to expand data domains, starting with workforce data, while shaping standards and tooling

Qualifications

• Hands-on data management, data quality, data engineering, or analytics in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong SQL proficiency and ability to profile, query, and validate data directly.
• Experience leading or mentoring teams and building data products.
• Product thinking with data as a product and clear delivery accountability.
• Ability to collaborate with senior leaders and drive cross-organizational accountability.

Responsibilities

• Build and own priority data products with defined trust, quality, and definitions.
• Profile, monitor, and validate data quality; apply methods to detect anomalies.
• Create data quality pipelines and consumable product formats for analytics and AI.
• Lead cross-functional data governance group; establish cadence and steward registry.
• Design data products for AI readiness and annotate with business context.
• Grow a small team and manage external engineering capacity for special projects.
• Partner with IT and Privacy on governance tools, labels, glossary, and data scanning.
• Contribute to enterprise knowledge assets and governance standards.
• Advise CDAKO and leadership on domain sequencing and scope expansion.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Data quality

Data management

Analytics

People leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Product thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Statistics/ Economics/Engineering/Math

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Workday

Microsoft Purview

Data catalog tooling

Data governance tooling

Job description

Reporting to the Chief Data, Analytics & Knowledge Officer (CDAKO), the Senior Manager, Data Products will lead the build of a small, high-impact portfolio of trusted, AI-ready data products that power analytics, reporting, and agentic workflows across the enterprise. This is a product leadership role for a hands‑on, analytically strong professional who understands that data governance is the discipline that makes products trustworthy — the method, not the mandate. You will own what data is trusted, how it is defined, and how it is made consumable, beginning with people and workforce data as the anchor domain.

This position will be based at our Head Office in Markham, Ontario. Extendicare offers a hybrid working environment.

What You’ll Do

• Build and own priority data products — defining what “trusted” means for each domain through business rules, quality thresholds, freshness requirements, and certified definitions.
• Profile, monitor, and validate data quality hands‑on, applying analytical methods to detect anomalies and distinguish data errors from operational signals.
• Build and maintain data quality pipelines that continuously assess product health, and package priority data as consumable products — governed extracts, certified views, and structured feeds that analytics and AI workflows depend on.
• Convene and lead a cross‑functional data governance group, bringing together data stewards from source‑side business functions with IT as infrastructure collaborator; establish cadence, issue tracking, and a steward registry, and enable stewards with clear standards and tooling.
• Design data products for AI and agentic readiness — structured, consistent, versioned, and annotated with business context — partnering with the Analytics & AI team on downstream requirements.
• Lead, develop, and grow a small team, including a Data & Analytics Engineer, and manage external engineering capacity for special projects.
• Partners with IT and Privacy on the design and implementation of data governance tools within the environment to assist with sensitivity labelling, business glossary, classification, and data scanning — ensuring product design reinforces security and privacy controls.
• Support a Data Analytics Community of Practice and contribute governance standards into enterprise knowledge assets, building documentation that scales cleanly from people data to clinical and other domains.
• Bring recommendations to CDAKO and executive leadership on domain sequencing and scope expansion based on demonstrated success and data readiness.

What You Bring

• 5–10 years of hands‑on experience in data management, data quality, data engineering, or analytics roles within complex enterprise environments.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; advanced degree an asset.
• People leadership experience — managing or mentoring direct reports, junior analysts, or co‑op students, and maintaining a high-performance culture in a build‑phase environment.
• Strong SQL proficiency and the ability to profile, query, and validate data directly; analytical capability to assess data quality pipelines, detect anomalies, and distinguish data errors from operational signals.
• Product thinking — experience treating data as a product with consumers, quality standards, and delivery accountability.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with senior leaders (VP/C-level) and frontline data owners, and to drive accountability across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
• Clear communication — able to explain data quality issues and their business impact to non‑technical audiences and to document clearly.

Strong Assets

• Advanced analytical capability — statistical modelling, econometrics, or quantitative analysis applicable to data quality pipelines and workforce analytics.
• Familiarity with Workday as an HR system of record, including data structures and integration patterns.
• Hands‑on experience with Microsoft Purview or equivalent data catalogue, sensitivity labelling, business glossary, or data lineage tooling in a Microsoft ecosystem.
• Healthcare or other regulated‑industry experience with compliance and data integrity requirements; clinical data exposure an asset.
• Understanding of what AI and agentic workflows require from upstream data — structure, consistency, provenance, and freshness.
• Experience standing up steward networks or data quality programs, not just operating within existing frameworks.

At Extendicare, we believe that working as a team creates an environment that allows us to reach our potential. We value each employee, encourage equal opportunity for growth and recognize achievement. As a valued member of our team, you can expect:

• Continuous mentorship, support for life‑long learning and growth opportunities
• Opportunities for advancement and career growth within the organization
• A rewarding and meaningful work experience where you can enrich your life and the lives of others through your work.
• Employee Family Assistance Program.
• Robust benefits package.

Extendicare is a leading provider of care and services for seniors across Canada, operating under the Extendicare, ParaMed, Extendicare Assist, and SGP Purchasing Network brands. We are committed to delivering quality care to meet the needs of a growing seniors’ population, inspired by our mission to provide people with the care they need, wherever they call home. We operate a broad network of long‑term care homes (both owned and under management contracts), deliver over 24 million hours of home health care services annually, and provide group purchasing services to third parties representing approximately 157,000 beds across Canada. Extendicare proudly employs more than 30,000 qualified, highly trained and dedicated team members who are passionate about providing high‑quality care and services to help people live better.