Manager, Data Engineering & Governance

Role overview

Work arrangement

• Hybrid role based out of the Surrey, BC head office.

Team and delivery leadership

• Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team spanning engineering, architecture, modelling, data quality, and governance.
• Set accountabilities, goals, delivery expectations, feedback, career development, and performance support.
• Plan hiring, onboarding, knowledge transfer, workforce capability, and succession.
• Translate strategy into quarterly roadmap outcomes and prioritize work by value, risk, dependencies, and capacity.
• Track plans, milestones, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, and capacity; escalate early and recommend options.

Platform, architecture, and governance

• Own Insurance Data Platform engineering practices, including Fabric, medallion architecture, pipelines, notebooks, orchestration, monitoring, deployment, and support.
• Ensure platform components and data products are scalable, secure, observable, supportable, and cost-conscious.
• Partner on environments, access, release management, resilience, and production operations.
• Own enterprise data architecture and modelling practices; ensure models are documented and aligned to business concepts and system realities.
• Oversee Purview catalog, glossary, domains, classification, scans, lineage, data quality, ownership, and stewardship workflows.
• Set governance standards for critical data elements, definitions, quality, issue management, access, privacy, retention, and auditability.

Partnership and vendor management

• Coordinate with Insights & Reporting and Analytics & AI leaders on trusted data foundations, priorities, handoffs, and service expectations.
• Explain technical decisions and trade-offs to business and executive stakeholders in plain language.
• Manage vendor and partner deliverables, knowledge transfer, architecture, quality, and documentation.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent education and experience.
• 6+ years across data engineering, data architecture, data management, or data governance, with depth in more than one area.
• 3+ years of formal people management, including coaching, performance management, and development of technical professionals.
• Experience building or materially growing a data team, function, or operating model.
• Leadership experience with Microsoft Fabric and modern cloud data platforms, including medallion architecture, pipelines, deployment, and production operations.
• Practical Microsoft Purview or related experience across catalogue, lineage, quality, ownership, and stewardship.
• Experience with enterprise data models using Erwin Data Modeler or a comparable tool.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary delivery across architecture, engineering, and governance.

Additional assets

• Certifications in Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Microsoft Purview, DAMA/CDMP, data architecture, or data management are an asset.
• Experience in benefits, insurance, healthcare, financial services, or another regulated environment is an asset.
• Experience integrating operational systems into a unified data platform, master data management, stewardship, privacy-sensitive data, Canadian data residency, or vendor delivery models is an asset.

Compensation

• Estimated annual base salary is CAD 120,000–135,000; individual compensation depends on skills, experience, and education or training.
• The stated range is base salary and excludes the broader total rewards package.

Benefits

• Benefits include paid time off, extended health and dental coverage, RRSP matching, flexible work options, and mental health resources.