Job Description

Embark on a rewarding career with Sobeys Inc., celebrated among Canada's Top 100 employers, where your talents contribute to our commitment to excellence and community impact.
Our family of 128,000 employees and franchise affiliates share a collective passion for delivering exceptional shopping experiences and amazing food to all our customers. Our mission is to nurture the things that make life better - great experiences, families, communities, and our employees. We are a family nurturing families.
A proudly Canadian company, we started in a small town in Nova Scotia but we are now in communities of all sizes across this great country. With over 1,600 stores in all 10 provinces, you may know us as Sobeys, Safeway, IGA, Foodland, FreshCo, Thrifty Foods, Lawtons Drug Stores or another of our great banners but we are all one extended family.
Ready to Make an impact?
The Senior Data Solution Lead has direct responsibility for the design, implementation and evolution of data solutions supporting the Marketing, Loyalty & Digital business and AI teams. This leader applies a "Data as a Product" approach to managing, protecting and growing our data assets in this space, ensuring that our data is ready to support next generation Advanced Analytics, AI, Operations and business strategy execution.
Sobeys is full of exciting opportunities, and we are always looking for bright new talent to join our team! We currently have an opportunity for a Senior Data Solutions Analyst in our Enterprise Data Office (EDO) to support our Marketing, Loyalty & Digital business. This is role based out of our office located in Mississauga; ON.
Here's where you'll be focusing:
As a Senior Data Solution Analyst with Sobeys, you will:

• Execute on implementing Data Governance and Data Quality Improvements.
• Identify and classify Data Assets with our Business partners.
• Support workshops to identify and onboard Data Owners, Data Stewards and Technical Custodians.
• Define required data asset quality standards in partnership with business teams.
• Help business teams define new processes or update existing processes to build and maintain integrity in their data assets.
• Support cataloguing of data assets belonging to functional domain; setting correct classifications.
• Work with Data Quality engineer to build data quality dashboards to track data quality issues and improvement initiatives.
• Help define data quality rules and policies associated with Domain data assets.
• Has business functional knowledge and understanding to manage governance activities of data asset.
• Support investigation of Data Quality root causes and remediation.
• Engage and direct Data Governance and Data Engineering for required tasks.
• Identify business owners to execute data correction activities; engage correct business teams who may need to update their business processes to mediate data quality issues.
• Liaise with IT Product owners if data cleansing tasks require their involvement.
• Communication of approach, dependencies, risks and progress of data tasks.
• Support business data owners and stewards in Data Governance and quality tracking tasks.

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What you have to offer:

• Bachelor's Degree in Technology, Computer Science, Mathematics or a related discipline. A minimum of 6 years experience as a Data Engineer or Software Engineer professional.
• Knowledge of effective data management practices (governance, data quality, data standards).
• Understanding of retail data including Article, Planogram, customer etc. to set correct classifications.
• Ability to collaborate with business teams to understand data impacts and define data standards.
• Ability to collaborate across multiple functional areas simultaneously.
• Ability to design impactful quality metrics and tracking.
• Ability to work with business and technology teams to trouble shoot data quality root causes.
• Strong communication skills to engage both business and technical teams.

At Sobeys we require our teammates to have the ability to adhere to a hybrid work model that requires your presence at one of our office locations at least three days per week. This requirement is integral to our commitment to team collaboration and the overall success of our office culture.
We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package, which varies by role and designed to help our teammates to live better - physically, financially and emotionally.
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We will consider factors such as your working location, work experience and skills as well as internal equity, and market conditions to ensure the selected candidate is paid fairly and competitively. We look forward to discussing the specific compensation details relevant to this role with candidates who are selected to move forward in the recruitment process.
Our Total Rewards programs, for full-time teammates, goes well beyond your paycheque:

• Competitive Benefits Package, tailored to meet your needs, including health and dental coverage, life, short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Access to Virtual Health Care Platform and Employee and Family Assistance Program.
• A Retirement and Savings Plan that provides you with the opportunity to build and add value to your savings.
• A 10% in-store discount at our participating banners and access to a wide range of other discount programs, making your purchases more affordable.
• Learning and Development Resources to fuel your professional growth.
• Parental leave top-up
• Paid Vacation and Days-off

We are committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process and will work with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of this process.