IT Specialist, Enterprise Analytics

At Saputo, our best comes from our people. We’re a talented and caring team with a longstanding history of excellence. Since our first days delivering cheese on a bicycle, we’ve grown into a leading global dairy processor by staying true to the culture that defines us.

Each of our employees is committed to uphold our tradition of care, quality, and passion through food, and together, we foster an environment where we can all make contributions that matter from our manufacturing plants to our office locations and everywhere in-between.

Overview of The Role

The IT Specialist, Enterprise Analytics is a data engineer who provides reporting and analytic solutions to meet evolving business needs and drives through both strong technical and functional skills and experience with Microsoft Analytics tools and platforms.

This individual will help define and update our evolving BI strategy and deployment of the latest Analytics software platforms at Saputo.

How you will make contributions that matter...

Strong business acumen to work with business users and interpret business requirements into data models and analytic solutions with a focus on Microsoft Azure technologies (Fabric & Power BI)

Assist with the end to end design of a scalable BI architecture that supports efficient creation of BI solutions

Direct interaction with business SMEs and technical groups (Infra, SAP, Non-SAP) to design and implement sustainable analytic solutions

Preparation and facilitation of design workshops with documented outcomes (requirements, design, data models).

Contributes to work effort estimates when building new or enhanced BI solutions on the Azure platform

Ensure designs are scalable, on strategy, and deliver the expected business outcome

Development of complex solution components with exceptional performance capable of processing large volumes of data

Design and develop scalable, reusable data models using Azure development in line with architectural standards and best practices

Ownership, Administration & Governance of the MS Fabric platform

Define test plans and conduct performance tuning and data profiling

Ownership of incident resolution and day to day sustainment of MS Fabric BI solutions

Utilize Microsoft Analytics tools for seamless integration and efficient user interface development to enhance overall user experience

Troubleshoot and optimize SQL queries to ensure top performance of analytic processes

Coach and mentor Business Analytics and Functional teams on MS Fabric technologies and processes

Supervision

Works independently ensuring alignment to our BI Strategy

Capable of directing a team

Oversee project activities (design, develop, test deploy)

Support activities (troubleshoot, enhance, capacity plan, upgrade, migration).

Ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects / initiatives simultaneously

Ability to successfully communicate and collaborate with colleagues and functional SME’s.

As part of his duties, the incumbent will have to communicate and collaborate in English, both orally and in writing with colleagues or other stakeholders in Quebec as well as in the rest of Canada or in North America.

You are best suited for the role if you

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems or Software Engineering

• 8+ years of hands on project and support experience in Microsoft Analytics with Azure developments;
• Microsoft Azure certifications - nice to have;
• Bilingual - English and French (nice to have);

Proficient in Data ingestion and integration, Data transformation, Data storage and management, Data Warehousing, Data Modeling and Analysis

Solid understanding of system administration for Microsoft Analytics platforms

Experience in data lake / data warehousing concept and methodologies

Power BI administration Workspace management, Security management

Tabular model Power BI Dataset development

• Experience with enterprise estimating tools and delivery methodologies;
• Strong written and verbal technical design skills;

Ability to operate in complex, fast pace project environment with interdependencies spanning multiple work-streams, teams, business divisions, geographies, time zones, & language.

Up-to-date knowledge of industry trends and best practices in data analytics

Technical Requirements

Proficient Data Engineer with experience in Azure Data factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Data bricks

Azure development with ADF pipelines

Azure development with notebooks (Python / Spark)

Data modelling, Dimensional modelling - Kimball methodology (star schema)

Strong SQL kills

Basic Power BI skills (including DAX)

Understanding of MS Fabric tools

We support and care for our employees by providing them with

Competitive salaries

A hybrid work environment with the possibility to work from home 2 days a week

Advantageous corporate agreements

Full range of group insurance benefits

Group retirement pension plan with employer contribution

Purchase option of company stocks

Group RRSP

Health and wellness program in the workplace

Assistance program for employees and their families

Saputo products at a discounted price

We support employment equity. Saputo strives to embed diversity and inclusion in its operations and invites candidates from all horizons to join its family.

Our story began in Canada in 1954, when the Saputo family's hard work and dedication created a thriving dairy business. More than 65 years later, our roots in this country remain strong with our Corporate Headquarters in Montréal.

Today, we are a leading cheese manufacturer and fluid milk and cream processor in Canada with well-loved brands, such as Saputo, Alexis de Portneuf, Armstrong, Baxter, Dairyland, Joyya, Milk2Go, Milk2Go Sport, Neilson, Nutrilait, Scotsburn* and Woolwich Goat Dairy.

Thanks to our national footprint, we're proud to bring our best to our customers and consumers, and have plenty of opportunities for our employees to grow in their own way.

And we do it while also striving to build a healthier future for our people and the communities where we operate, guided by our values and the Saputo Promise.