Lead, Data Governance & Analytics Architecture

Role Overview

• Act as the primary liaison between senior client-side business leaders, including executive sponsors and C-suite stakeholders, and a hybrid client/engineering delivery team.
• Facilitate structured decision-making, feedback loops, and alignment forums that connect business priorities to delivery realities.
• Translate ambiguous or evolving strategic objectives into clear governance, architecture, and analytics workstreams.
• Set the direction for operating the Data Governance program through ongoing advisory, process authorship, and operating-model refinement.
• Connect engineering and business teams around a shared data governance strategy and target-state roadmap, informed by structured feedback from client counterparts and executive stakeholders.
• Drive governance clarity across metadata, standards, business definitions, and downstream reporting integrity.
• Partner with client leadership to evolve governance practices using Microsoft Purview on Azure.
• Author gold-table specification documents that define target-state outputs for ETL pipelines within a medallion architecture.
• Translate KPI, reporting, drill-down, and business decision needs into structured, engineering-ready specifications.
• Guide architecture and semantic decisions that improve trust, reuse, and downstream analytical consistency.
• Lead portfolio rationalization as an explicit sprint activity using a defined retain/refactor/retire methodology.
• Review and contribute to analytics product definition and delivery planning, including use cases such as Scheduling Optimization.
• Shape KPI definitions, phased roadmaps, drill-down structures, and supporting architecture decisions.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading data governance, data architecture, analytics architecture, or governed data product work in client-facing environments.
• Strong executive stakeholder management experience, including the ability to work directly with business leaders, steering committees, and senior cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience translating business needs into structured target-state requirements for engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of data governance operating models.
• Strong understanding of metadata and data catalog approaches.
• Strong understanding of medallion architecture concepts.
• Strong understanding of semantic and reporting integrity considerations.
• Strong understanding of KPI and analytics product design.
• Experience authoring standards, frameworks, methodology documents, and reusable delivery artifacts.
• Ability to lead across architecture, engineering, and business conversations without needing to own every hands-on implementation detail.

Tech Stack

• Azure
• ETL

Benefits

• A comprehensive insurance plan, where you can choose the module that best suits your needs—Gold, Silver, or Bronze. The employer may contribute up to 80% of your coverage depending on the selected module. This plan includes short
• and long-term disability coverage.
• Dialogue via Sun Life provides virtual healthcare services, allowing you to consult with a healthcare professional for emergencies, prescription renewals, and more. You also have access to the Employee and Family Assistance Program, as well as a complete mental health support program.
• A $500 Personal Spending Account, which can be used for healthcare reimbursements, gym memberships, public transit passes, office supplies, or contributions to your RRSP through Valtech.
• A retirement plan where Valtech will match 100% of your RRSP contributions through a Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), up to a maximum of 4%. You can start contributing to your RRSP immediately, and to the DPSP after 3 months. The vesting of the DPSP will be after a 24 months of service.
• Access to a flexible vacation under Valtech's policy to support your work-life balance, with 5 days available during your probation period and a prorated amount calculated for the remainder of the year.
• Personal Technology Reimbursement – $30/month for every employee-offered on day 1.
• We close during the winter holidays and offer flexible scheduling throughout the year, so you can enjoy those sunny Friday afternoons—provided your weekly hours are completed.