Manager, Data Engineering & Governance

Role overview

Leadership and delivery

• Leads, coaches, and develops a multidisciplinary data team; sets accountabilities, goals, and delivery expectations.
• Plans workforce needs, hiring, onboarding, knowledge transfer, capability development, and succession coverage.
• Prioritizes platform, ingestion, modelling, quality, governance, and operational-support work; maintains delivery plans, milestones, risk reporting, and escalations.
• Owns engineering standards and delivery practices for Fabric, medallion architecture, pipelines, notebooks, orchestration, monitoring, deployment, and support.
• Ensures data products and platform components are scalable, supportable, secure, observable, and cost-conscious.
• Owns enterprise data architecture and conceptual, logical, and physical modelling practices, using Erwin as a core capability.
• Oversees Purview catalog, glossary, domains, classification, scans, lineage, quality, ownership, and stewardship workflows.
• Establishes standards for critical data elements, definitions, quality rules, access, privacy, retention, issue management, and auditability.
• Partners across functions to provide trusted reusable data foundations, communicate technical trade-offs, and manage vendor contributions.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent education and experience.
• 6+ years of progressive experience across data engineering, architecture, management, or governance, with depth in more than one area.
• 3+ years of formal people management, including goal setting, coaching, performance management, and technical-professional development.
• Experience building or materially growing a data team, function, or operating model, including hiring, role design, onboarding, and capability development.
• Hands-on or directly accountable leadership with Microsoft Fabric and modern cloud data platforms, including medallion architecture, pipelines, lakehouse or warehouse patterns, deployment, and production operations.
• Practical Microsoft Purview or related experience with catalog, glossary, classification, scans, lineage, quality, ownership, and stewardship.
• Experience governing enterprise data models using Erwin Data Modeler or a comparable enterprise modelling tool.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary architecture, engineering, and governance delivery, including roadmaps, priorities, dependencies, risks, and stakeholders.

Additional qualifications

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

Compensation

• Estimated annual base salary is $120,000 to $135,000 at the time of posting.
• Individual compensation depends on job-related skills, experience, and education or training; the range excludes the total rewards package.

Benefits

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