Data Steward Analyst

What You'll Do

As a Data Steward within the Pro Hockey Life Team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy, integrity, and security of our data assets.

In This Role, You'll Do

• Data Governance: Develop and implement data governance strategies, policies, and procedures to ensure the effective management of data throughout its lifecycle. This includes defining data standards, data quality rules, and data classification guidelines.
• Data Quality Management: Monitor and assess the quality of data across various systems and databases. Identify and resolve data quality issues by collaborating with relevant stakeholders and implementing corrective actions. Implement data profiling techniques to identify patterns, anomalies, and inconsistencies.
• Data Security: Revise and enforce data access controls, privacy measures, and data protection protocols, for domains within the scope of the department.
• Metadata Management: Define and maintain metadata standards for various data elements, including data dictionaries, glossaries, and business glossaries. Establish processes for capturing, documenting, and organizing metadata to enhance data understanding and facilitate efficient data usage.
• Master Data Management: Oversee the creation, maintenance, and governance of master data assets. Collaborate with key stakeholders to define master data requirements, ensure consistency across systems, and enable accurate reporting and analytics.
• Data Documentation: Create comprehensive documentation of data sources, structures, mappings, transformations, and business rules. Ensure documentation is up-to-date and readily accessible to users within the organization.
• Data Transformation: Lead & execute the Data Transformation work for the Data Domains within the scope of the department, to get our banner source data into a new target state, as part of a larger enterprise initiative.
• Data Collaboration & Querying: Facilitate collaboration between different business units to promote cross-functional data sharing and integration. Identify opportunities for leveraging shared datasets to improve decision-making processes.
• Training and Education: Develop training materials and conduct training sessions to increase awareness among employees about proper data handling practices, including data entry standards, quality control measures, and adherence to data governance policies.
  
  

What You Bring

• Educational Achievements (Diploma, bachelor’s degree, or higher) in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• More than 3 years of proven experience in data management or related roles.
• Strong knowledge of data governance frameworks, principles, and best practices.
• Highly skilled in SQL, Python, and PySpark.
• Familiarity with data quality assessment techniques and tools.
• Understanding of regulatory requirements related to data security and privacy.
• Proficiency in using metadata management tools.
• Cloud computing experience, such as Azure or Google Cloud platform, would be considered an asset.
• Prior Merchandising experience is an asset.
• Excellent analytical skills with an eye for detail.
• Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to prioritize tasks effectively and work independently.
  
  

Join the Pro Hockey Life Team as a Data Steward if you are passionate about maintaining high-quality data assets, driving data governance initiatives, and ensuring the availability of accurate information for informed decision making throughout the organization.

About Us

At Pro Hockey Life, we want you to feel pride and passion in your work as much as you and our customers do for Canada's national sport. Whether played in backyards, highly competitive leagues or simply enjoying cheering on your favourite team, hockey is an integral part of life in Canada. It is this pride and passion that makes what we do at Pro Hockey Life truly special. Our strong connection to our customers allows us to offer Canadians wide selection of hockey equipment and apparel, including the latest makes and models of sticks, skates, protective and goalie gear, as well as fan wear and memorabilia. Being a part of the Canadian Tire family of companies, we get to share our passion and hockey expertise with our colleagues as we strive to have the best hockey assortment available to Canadians across our retail banners. Join us, where there's a place for you here.

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.