Manager, Data and Analytics

Location: Toronto

The Manager, Data and Analytics leads the business analytics practice and plans and implements the strategy, to help build new capabilities.

Responsibilities:

Identify and lead execution of innovative projects
Manage the Data and Analytics function
Develop and implement a roadmap for a data driven operating model
Communicate insights to key and non-technical group of partners and senior leaders
Partner with internal stakeholders to understand and analyze business needs and goals
Develop and execute the data and analytics platform strategy
Improve architecture to enable advanced analytics, AI, Machine Learning
Champion data governance, data advocacy, and master data programs to enhance data value in the organization
Lead various phases of the development and data lifecycle: requirements gathering, design, data-modelling, testing, tuning, deployment, and monitoring
Create detailed technical documents and requirement specifications
Author unit tests and assist with the quality assurance and testing process to ensure the platform functions as expected

Qualifications:

5+ years’ experience in data management or analytics
Experience leading cross-functional initiatives
Demonstrated strong teamwork and relationship skills
Strong desire to learn new technologies, languages, tools, and processes
Strong data literacy and experience with databases and data services
Experience with the tools and libraries in the data science and data analytics ecosystem
Proficient with relational databases
Demonstrated experience in using data mining, data science, and data visualization tools (e.g. SQL, R, Python, Tableau, PowerBI, etc.) to solve business problems