Senior Analyst, Data & Analytics - Data Technical Lead

Description

Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America.

Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.

The Data technical Lead, Data & Analytics, will be responsible for leading the technical aspects of data projects and business projects that have a data component and establishing and documenting technical standards and best practices.

This role is responsible for data solution implementation, delivering, and maintaining data specifications and practices following the introduction of new projects.

The incumbent will constantly update the practices to enhance the evolution of our data ecosystem.

This position will be reporting to the Senior Manager, Data & Analytics.

Responsabilities :

• Manage the technical scope and architecture implementation of the project before, during, and after delivery.
• Prioritize critical tasks and conflicting requirements with a high attention to detail.
• Determine root cause for data integrity gaps and provide appropriate data resolution and process remedy solutions.
• Design and administer data collection tools, clean, merge and manage existing data sets as well as establish and maintain data quality procedures to ensure accuracy and timeliness of data.
• Recognized as a key technical resource in the team and will lead, guide, and mentor data engineering team members when needed, this includes helping to improve the team through code reviews, testing, documentation, and technical guidance.
• Review and document the decisions the team makes to ensure consistency and alignment with the vision.
• Responsible for working within a sub-functional area to ensure synergistic collaboration and attain shared goals.
• Responsible for actively supporting the development and enhancement of processes, priorities, and goals for a functional area.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of IT data analytics experience in a large company and experience leading a technical team.
• A relevant University degree / technical certification, and relevant experience commensurate to the role.
• Experience on cloud solutions (AWS, Azzure...), data vault approach and Datawarehouse (Snowflake).
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Python, SQL, Scala...
• Deep understanding of big data challenges and ecosystems.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and in rapidly changing environments or uncertain conditions.
• Ability to act as a leader for a development team, facing architects, data modelers, and the different IT and business stakeholders.
• Ability and willingness to learn new tools and technologies.
• Capable of solving complex problems by using a logical, systematic, and sequential approach
• Takes responsibility for the results and future direction of the organization.
• Comfortable working as both part of a high-performing, diverse team and as an independent performer.
• Able to approach a problem by using a logical, systematic, sequential approach.

Conditions of Employment :

Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest, at the time any offer of employment is made and seeking any required work permits / visas or other authorizations which may be required is the sole responsibility of the candidates applying for this position.

Linguistic Requirements

Based on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.

Diversity and Inclusion

Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees' unique contributions to our company's success.

As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.

Air Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.