Lead, Data Governance & Analytics Architecture

Valtech

Senior client-facing data leader at Valtech serving as a strategic partner in data governance and analytics. Responsible for aligning business stakeholders and engineering teams on key data initiatives.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaSenior💰 CA$150,000 - CA$200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureETL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

data governancedata architectureanalytics architectureETL pipelinesmedallion architectureKPI designreporting integritymetadata managementdata catalogingstructured specifications

Soft Skills

executive stakeholder managementcross-functional collaborationdecision-making facilitationprocess authorshipstrategic translationleadershipcommunicationalignment facilitationadvisory skillsportfolio rationalization