Senior Specialist, Analytics

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) Société canadienne d'hypothèques et de logement(SCHL); Ottawa; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

CMHC seeks a Senior Specialist, Analytics to translate data insights into actionable strategies. You will advance data development, oversight, and risk-management initiatives while influencing stakeholders to achieve organizational goals.

You’ll lead measurement frameworks, ensure data quality, and collaborate across teams to align analytics with corporate objectives in Ottawa.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in business administration, finance, or economics with seven years’ analytics experience.
• Seven+ years in data development, analysis and research methodologies.
• Experience designing data transformation workflows with SQL, Python or R.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and maintenance of performance measurement frameworks.
• Lead end-to-end insurance-in-force process, ensuring data quality and insights.
• Ensure use of analytical tools and models aligned with best practices.
• Ensure data governance and integrity across analytics processes and systems.
• Strategize with management and contribute to business strategy development.
• Identify analytics requirements changes through ongoing management communications.
• Oversee analysis of risks, issues and opportunities within CMHC’s risk appetite initiatives.

Skills

Data analytics

Data development

SQL

Python

R

Data governance

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business/finance/economics

Master’s degree

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Job description

About CMHC

The work you do and the work we do together matters. We come to work every day with a common purpose: to contribute to a well-functioning housing system. At CMHC, we hold ourselves accountable for our results and support our colleagues in their achievements. We thrive on collaboration, connecting across CMHC and involving the right people to get our work done. Our leadership style is guided by trust, where our leaders favour an adaptive approach based on the needs of their teams. Join us and be part of a team that's committed to making a real difference and be part of something meaningful.

Benefits

• Accrued vacation.
• Annual individual performance bonus.
• Support towards your personal and professional growth with training, mentorship and more.
• An inclusive workplace culture and environment.

About The Role

Join the Analytics, Commercial Solutions team, in the Senior Specialist, Analytics position. As an expert in translating valuable insights from data, your role will consist of data development, data oversight, as well as strategy and risk management. This is an individual contributor role without the responsibility of managing a team; however, the ability to influence and rally stakeholders behind a common goal are aptitudes that are key success drivers in the role.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of performance measurement frameworks, including identification of applicable indicators and data sources/linkages to increase the breadth and usefulness of data.
• Lead the end-to-end Insurance-in-Force process, including ensuring data quality and integrity, data validation, reporting accuracy, providing valuable insights, and maintaining up-to-date procedures and data governance.
• Ensure the use and deployment of strategic analytical tools, models and techniques used for data analysis and interpretation are aligned with industry best practices.
• Ensure data governance and integrity by implementing and maintaining standards, policies, and quality controls that safeguard data accuracy, consistency, and compliance across analytics processes and systems.
• Strategize with management, provide direction and input into the development of business strategy, and continuously act as oversight on progress of new corporate initiatives.
• Identify changes in strategic priorities and analytics requirements through ongoing communications with management.
• Oversee the analysis of risks, issues, and opportunities within CMHC's risk appetite initiatives and inform leadership team of concerns.

What You Should Have

• An undergraduate degree in a related field such as business administration, finance, or economics and seven years’ experience in data analytics. An equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered.
• A minimum of seven (7) years’ experience in data development, analysis and research methodologies; quantitative and market analysis; economic modeling and projection techniques.
• The ability to design and implement robust data transformation workflows using programming languages such as SQL, Python, or R to clean, structure, and enrich raw data for advanced analytics, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and alignment with business requirements.
• The ability to analyze transformation solutions and support their implementation.
• An expert ability to synthesize large amounts of data and translate into simple, plain language and provide actionable recommendations.
• Strong oral and written communication skills including presentation skills.
• The ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships at all levels of the organization.

It Would Be Great If You Also Had

• A Master’s Degree.
• Knowledge of the Insurance or Mortgage Lending business.
• Knowledge of CMHC’s insurance-in-force.

Posting Closing Date

Note, the competition will remain active until filled.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We’re committed to employment equity and encourage women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, veterans and persons of all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions to apply. We also welcome applications from non-Canadians who are eligible to work in Canada. CMHC is an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought – and of people – are recognized, valued, and considered essential to achieving our mission.