Job Description

Job Requisition ID: 9232

Language Designation: English Essential

Language Skill Levels (Read/Write/Speak): ZZZ

Position Status: Permanent Full Time

Travel Requirement: Occasional

Office Location: Ottawa (ON); Calgary (AB); Halifax (NS); Montreal (QC); Toronto (ON); Vancouver (BC)

Salary: Our salaries generally range from $ 97692.52 to $ 122115.65 and are based on qualifications and experience.

At CMHC, we trust you to get the job done. We empower our employees to be fully autonomous and accountable in achieving their results.

Here are some of the reasons why we were chosen as one of Canada\'s top employers:

• Enjoy 5 weeks of vacation;
• An annual individual performance bonus;
• Defined benefit pension plan;
• Comprehensive group insurance to support your well-being from day one;
• Access to a catalogue of courses for individual learning;
• An inclusive workplace culture and environment with multiple Employee Resource Groups and much more!

Help make a difference for Canadians. CMHC\'s is that by 2030, everyone in Canada has a home that they can afford and that meets their needs. All of our programs and activities support this singular goal.

Be part of an inclusive workplace. guides everything we do at CMHC. We\'re taking to eradicate racism and advance equity within CMHC and the housing system.

Join the Business Transformation team in the Analytics Architect position. This is a technical role, developing architectures and designing solutions that leverage a state-of-the-art cloud-based analytics platform (including Azure DataBricks , Python, R, Spark, PowerBI and Azure ML) while providing guidance on its evolution. You will be responsible for the translation of the client\'s business and analytic requirements into future state architectures and solutions, including the business and technical roadmaps required to achieve the target state. As a team member, the role has individual specialization and accountability to advance Analytics architecture, technology, projects, and expertise at CMHC.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures all aspects of the analytics ecosystem\'s solution architecture are optimized by working with subject matter experts in the areas of analytics, IT enterprise architecture, business lines and external partnerships to understand needs and new opportunities. This role envisions, recommends and documents solutions to project leads and senior leadership.
• Leverages knowledge of the organization\'s information, application, and infrastructure architecture as well as the current technology landscape to design a holistic and optimized analytics platform. The incumbent understands architecture artifacts and can write/edit them.
• Optimizes solution environments that considers functional requirements (e.g., benchmarking systems, analyzing system bottlenecks, developing verification criteria and statistical analysis) as well as non-functional attributes (e.g., security, availability, performance and stability). The incumbent is responsible for planning, designing, and reviewing these key characteristics of the analytics platform to help ensure that it complies with enterprise standards and that it performs adequately as additional analytics solutions are implemented.
• Influences and oversees the industrialization of analytics ensuring high performance of solutions in the platform as well as maturing the analytics capability.
• Works with program and project managers in the design, planning and governance of implementing projects.
• Builds relationships with broader analytics community at CMHC and works with analytics practitioners and data architects to adopt best practices and standards for data and analytics.
• Performs a key management and thought leadership role in the areas of advanced data techniques, including data modelling, data access, data integration, data visualization, text mining, data discovery, statistical methods, database design and implementation.
• Optimization of solutions and analytics platform at enterprise level.
• Development of new value-added uses for CMHC data, information and analytical capabilities to audiences both internal and external to CMHC.
• Effective management of the budget and resources assigned to the development of analytical models and an analytics culture at CMHC.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in a quantitative field, such as Statistics, Economics, Commerce, Computer Science, Engineering.
• Minimum of 7 years of advanced experience in analytics, analysis, data management, data architecture, integrated database design, data security, performance tuning, optimization methods, industrialization of initiatives including functional leadership experience in a complex data-driven organization.
• Expert knowledge of Big Data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark), relational databases, programming (Python and/R with Spark), data preparation tools and data visualization (e.g., Power BI, R, Python).
• Experience in defining data standards, data governance and data lineage, and data migration between database technologies.
• Experience in handling large data volumes, deep understanding of data marts, data warehouse architecture, multidimensional databases, data lakes, and data model migration and program optimization and application scaleability solutions.
• Strong communication, presentation and influencing skills (written, verbal and cross-cultural communication skills), including the ability to speak and write clearly and succinctly in a variety of settings and styles as well as communicating messages at multiple levels in the organization.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities. Expert skill in identifying and analyzing trends, patterns or connections between issues, forecast impacts of change and recommend solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Financial services industry experience is an asset
• Master\'s degree is an asset.

Posting closing date: Note, the competition will remain active until filled.

CMHC is an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought - and of people - are recognized, valued, and considered essential to achieving our .

We are committed to employment equity and actively encourage applications from women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, veterans and persons of all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions. We also welcome applications from non-Canadians who are eligible to work in Canada.

We sincerely thank all candidates for their interest, however, please note that only applicants selected for further consideration will be contacted. If selected for an interview or testing, please advise us if you require an accommodation.

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