Analyst, Data Governance

Job Title: Analyst, Data Governance

Location: Oakville, ON (Onsite)

Estimated Duration: Fulltime

About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

What You Will Do: 

• Data Governance Leadership: Support the development, implementation, maintenance, monitoring, and enforcement of data governance standards, policies, procedures, and controls to ensure adherence to privacy, compliance, risk, regulatory, and legal requirements. This includes AI Governance to ensure ethical use and compliance with regulatory standards for AI-driven processes. 

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate with leadership, IT departments, business units, Legal, Compliance, Privacy, Risk teams, data producers and consumers, and IT data platform teams to align on data governance goals and support the operationalization of a robust data governance framework. 

• Promote data literacy by developing materials and conducting training on best practices. 

• Policy Development: Assist in the creation and enforcement of data management policies to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. 

• Contribute to shaping the data governance accountabilities and operating model and enable data stewardship. 

• Data Quality Assurance: Contribute to the enhancement and implementation of robust data quality frameworks and conduct regular audits to maintain high data standards. 

• Support the development and evolution of data governance metrics and KPIs; monitor & measure the overall efficacy of the data governance program. 

• Proactively monitor data, metadata, and reference data to ensure quality across the CTB data lifecycle. 

• Implement and leverage data governance tools and platforms to enable capabilities; manage and maintain metadata and other data governance artifacts such as glossaries, classifications, and lineage. 

• Risk Management: Identify potential risks related to data governance and develop mitigation strategies. 

• Support data sharing and collaboration across teams and departments; ensure proper data access, usability, and monitoring of data sharing agreements. 

• Project Oversight: Contribute to large-scale data governance projects from inception to completion. 

• Stay updated on industry trends, standards, and regulatory requirements related to data governance; recommend appropriate modifications to existing policies and practices. 

 
What You Bring: 

• Post-secondary education in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or a related field. 

• Proven experience with corporate data environments supporting cross-functional governance. 

• Proficient in PLSQL and confident working in a structured data environment. 

• Knowledge of business intelligence, modern data warehousing techniques, cloud solutions such as Azure or GCP. 

• Experience with ETL/ELT processes and modern integration frameworks like API and event streaming. 

• Experience in IBM Cloud Pak for Data and/or Databricks Unity Catalog. 

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Visio, PowerPoint, and Excel. 

• Expertise in creating/enforcing data governance policies to ensure data integrity, privacy, compliance, security. 

• Ability to work with Legal, Privacy, Compliance, and Risk partners 

• Hands-on experience with data analysis, quality assessment, metadata management. 

• Excellent communication skills for presenting complex concepts to non-technical audiences. 

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; ability to problem-solve and handle ambiguity. 

• Effective stakeholder management; ability to build trusted relationships and influence decision-making. 

• Experience in process design/improvement initiatives and leveraging automation. 

• CDMP certification is an asset. 

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging 
We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.
 
Accommodations  
We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.