Senior Data Analyst
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Role Overview
The Senior Data Analyst is a senior technical contributor within SAIT’s Data Governance Office.
The role leads data quality, data management, analytics, and governance implementation activities across the institution.
The position supports trusted, well-governed data for decision-making, operational excellence, compliance, and institutional objectives.
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The Opportunity
The Senior Data Analyst is a senior technical contributor within SAIT’s Data Governance Office.
The role leads data quality, data management, analytics, and governance implementation activities across the institution.
The position supports trusted, well-governed data for decision-making, operational excellence, compliance, and institutional objectives.
Governance Documentation and Standards
- Develop and maintain business glossaries, metadata, data definitions, data quality rules, business rules, standards, procedures, and policy documentation.
- Collaborate with data stewards, trustees, and governance leads on data standards and documentation.
Data Profiling and Quality
- Conduct data profiling, analysis, and quality assessment activities for assigned institutional data domains.
- Identify trends, anomalies, root causes, risks, and opportunities for improvement and recommend remediation approaches.
- Develop, implement, and monitor data quality controls and coordinate stewardship activities.
Data Management and Stewardship
- Perform data cleansing, mastering, and management activities for assigned institutional datasets.
- Define business rules and validation logic to improve consistency, accuracy, and usability.
- Promote accountability for data assets and escalate unresolved ownership, quality, or compliance risks.
Stakeholder and Tool Support
- Translate complex business needs into data requirements, data quality rules, reporting needs, and governance solutions.
- Support configuration, testing, maintenance, issue resolution, and continuous improvement for Ataccama One and related tools.
- Partner with technical teams to align tool configuration with governance, data quality, MDM, metadata, and stewardship requirements.
Analytics and Continuous Improvement
- Develop analyses, dashboards, reports, and recommendations that identify data quality trends, operational risks, governance gaps, and improvement opportunities.
- Coordinate governance working groups and data quality discussions and improve governance processes, standards, procedures, and controls.
- Develop and deliver data literacy materials, working sessions, and stakeholder guidance.
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree or diploma in a related field.
- Five or more years of progressive experience in data governance, data analysis, data management, data quality, or related roles within large, complex organizations.
- DAMA Certified Data Management Professional certification or equivalent.
- Microsoft Data Analytics, Azure, Fabric, or related certification.
- Experience supporting data governance programs, stewardship initiatives, data catalogs, or business glossaries.
- Advanced knowledge of data governance, data quality, metadata, Master Data Management, data lineage, and data management tools.
- Experience with Transact-SQL, data warehousing concepts, analytics, and reporting tools is an asset.
- Experience conducting data impact analyses and risk assessments.
- Experience designing and implementing data policies, data standards, or standard operating procedures.
- Experience working with data stewards, trustees, business stakeholders, and technical teams to define data rules and resolve data quality issues.
Compensation and Schedule
- The salary range is CAD 85,000 to CAD 95,000.
- The role is scheduled for 37.5 hours per week.
- The position includes four weeks of vacation and 14 flex days per year.
About SAIT
SAIT describes itself as a community of problem-solvers, inventive thinkers, and collaborators focused on applied education.
The institution provides professional development, benefits, pension, campus dining, and fitness resources.
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