Data Engineering Expert - Master Data Management Director at Co-operators

Company: CGL
Department: Information Technology
Employment Type: Regular Full-Time 
Language: This role operates in English
Work Model: Remote
Additional Information: This/these role(s) is/are currently vacant

The Opportunity:

We are a leading Canadian financial services co-operative committed to being a catalyst for a sustainable and resilient society and our team is essential to deliver on this strategy. That’s why we prioritize our people, to ensure we provide a strong culture and development opportunities which enables our team to thrive and to live our purpose. The best part is that you will work with people that care passionately about you, our clients, and our communities.

Our Information Technology team aspires to be a leader in applying technology to power business strategies. We connect concepts with solutions to create value and efficiencies for our clients, employees, and communities. Our success is driven by our skilled and diverse team who are passionate about excellence, innovation, and agility.

The Data Engineering Expert is a critical role in the data organization, responsible for providing hands on Engineering Leadership by leading the design and build of data products that collect and store large datasets and leading the design and build of data platforms that underpin and accelerate the build of data products.

They ensure the data product is resilient and is readily accessible across various teams in a secure manner. They ensure that data products comply with the data access policies and rules that the governance team implements and leads the design and implementation of   robust security measures to protect sensitive information. They are also responsible for upskilling staff members in data tools and technologies and lead the implementation of new tools. They take end-to-end ownership of building, deploying and maintaining data products. They are a seasoned professional with deep understanding of Azure cloud infrastructure, automation principles and has a security-first mindset.

Data engineering expert will partner with the business, reporting specialists and with specialists from Advanced Analytics to drive the build of a product that satisfies the requirements of multiple stakeholders. They will also partner with networking, security, data governance, data engineering leaders and vendors like Microsoft and Databricks to drive the build of the data platform.

This role will empower Co-operators data community and the cloud community by contributing to the cloud catalog.

How you will create impact:

• Designing and implementing cloud MDM solutions: Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and implementation of the enterprise Master Data Management (MDM) platform, with a focus on cloud-native MDM. Plan capacity, create infrastructure including data flows, tools and networking aspects such as private endpoints, subnets and create and maintain detailed architectural diagrams to support business requirements.
• Design and oversee the segmentation of the MDM platform to support multiple business lines, ensuring that each has its own governance model, matching rules, and access controls while maintaining enterprise data consistency.
• Define and implement data models, survivorship rules, workflows, and integration patterns across master data domains (e.g., Client, Product, Advisor, Account, etc.).
• Data Modeling: Demonstrated expert knowledge and experience in data modelling and design, data mapping, ETL data transformation processes, and SQL, with a proven ability to implement physical and relational data models for various use cases.
• Oversee the migration of legacy on-prem MDM platforms to the modern cloud MDM environment, ensuring high data quality and minimal business disruption.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Build and Maintain robust CI/CD pipelines that include code quality and security scanning, vulnerability testing to automatically deploy data engineering pipelines to various environments.
• Security and Compliance: Integrate security principles throughout the development and deployment lifecycles, leveraging tools for vulnerability scanning, threat modeling, and compliance monitoring.
• Lead the build of Data Integrations templates: Lead a team of engineers in building robust batch and messaging data pipeline templates to automate the future development including automated reconciliation, data quality, technical metadata capture and monitoring.
• Performance Optimization: Define and implement automated process to generate alerts on failures or performance degradation of data products with a view of taking proactive steps in resolving issues before they become evident.
• Documentation and Maintenance: Define, lead and enforce a documentation system to capture the state of the existing implementation, and to ensure ongoing maintenance and updates.
• Process Improvement: Identify and implement engineering best practices and process improvements to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the data engineering team.
• Stakeholder Communication: Partner with business and technology stakeholders to identify and prioritize Customer centric data initiatives that address business challenges and support business value creation. Ensure that the data engineering team is aware of the priorities and communicate project goals, progress and outcomes.; Partner with security, governance and technology stakeholders to identify and implement changes to infrastructure platform code and ensure that data engineering teams are aware of the changes.
• Lead and coordinate security and platform updates to the underlying data infrastructure by collaborating with various data delivery teams and foster a working group to share best practices across the data engineering community at Co-operators.

How you will succeed:

• You have an innovative mindset to improve operational efficiencies and ability to influence change, with a primary focus on client needs.  
• You use critical thinking skills to recognize assumptions, evaluate arguments, draw conclusions and proactively propose solutions.
• You have strong communication skills to clearly convey messages and explore diverse points of view. 
• You build trusting relationships and provide guidance to support the development of colleagues.

To join our team:

• 10+ years’ experience in implementing multi-domain Master Data Management product implementation of cloud-based MDM tools
• 10+ years’ experience in defining Master Data Management strategy, developing the migration approach , Proof of Concepts and building an operational, end-to-end customer master data management system across multiple business units.
• Proven leadership experience at a Senior Technical Lead level, leading the build of complex, cross-enterprise data initiatives.
• Hands-on experience with the following Azure PaaS:  Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory (ADF), Azure Synapse, Event Hub, API Management (APIM), Azure Key Vault, Azure SQL, and Purview.  Have a good understanding of the backup, disaster recovery, and data recovery strategy and execution with the above services.  
• Excellent knowledge of Azure infrastructure such as cloud security and networking and experience in implementing best practices.
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple priorities simultaneously; Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience presenting to large and small audiences.

What you need to know:

• You will be subject to a Background check as a condition of employment, in the event you are the successful candidate.

What’s in it for you?

• Training and development opportunities to grow your career.
• Flexible work options and paid time off to support your personal and family needs.
• A holistic approach to your well-being, with physical and mental health programs and a supportive workplace culture.
• Paid volunteer days to give back to your community.
• In addition to our competitive salary and incentive programs, eligible employees also benefit from a comprehensive total rewards package including group retirement savings plans, pension and benefits (e.g., health and wellness, dental, disability and life coverage), mental health support and an employee assistance program.