• Strategy & Roadmap: Partner with business and technology teams to design and execute a scalable analytics roadmap; translate goals into prioritized use cases with requirements, milestones, and measurable outcomes.

• Solution Delivery: Lead the development and enhancement of BI solutions (dashboards, KPI frameworks, self‑service datasets) and analytics assets that drive merchandising, supply chain, eCommerce, stores, finance, and marketing decisions.

• Architecture & Scalability: Collaborate with data engineering/platform teams to ensure semantic layers, curated datasets, and pipelines are performant, governed, and reusable.

• UAT & Adoption: Manage user acceptance testing for analytics solutions; improve testing documentation, resolve defects, and run training/office hours to drive adoption and business continuity.

• Stakeholder Management: Facilitate cross‑functional forums, align on priorities and trade‑offs, and communicate progress/risks to leaders; ensure timely delivery of milestones.

• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of analysts and BI developers; set standards for analysis quality, visualization, documentation, and stakeholder engagement.

Data Governance

• Operating Model & Alignment: Contribute to a phased governance roadmap for Walmart Canada, aligned with stakeholders across Walmart Canada and Walmart International; participate in governance councils and domain working groups.

• Policies & Standards: Help define and socialize standards for business definitions, metadata, lineage, access, retention, and data sharing; ensure these are embedded in analytics workflows and tooling.

• Stewardship: Identify data owners/stewards for priority domains; establish RACI and accountability for definitions, data quality rules, and issue remediation.

• Metadata, Lineage & Catalog: Drive onboarding of analytics assets (dashboards, metrics, curated tables) into the catalog; ensure business glossaries and technical lineage are maintained and discoverable.

• Data Quality Management: Define critical data elements (CDEs) for analytics use cases; implement monitoring, issue management workflows, and executive scorecards to track data quality trends.

• Access, Privacy & Risk: Partner with Security/Privacy/Legal to identify and manage sensitive information (such as PI) within analytics datasets, apply least‑privilege access and data minimization, and ensure regulatory compliance.

Program & Vendor Management

• Lead end‑to‑end delivery for high‑priority analytics and governance initiatives—scope, planning, risk mitigation, change management, and value realization.

• Manage product/technology partners and vendors (contracts, budgets, and SLAs) supporting analytics platforms, BI tools, and governance solutions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Management, Data Science, Computer Science, or related discipline.

• Experience with data governance, data management, or data quality programs within a corporate or regulated environment.

• Proficient in data tools and technologies, along with strong SQL and data analysis skills.

• Experience working with BI reporting tools like Tableau, Looker and Power BI.

• Familiarity of regulatory and compliance standards is a plus.

• Familiarity with Walmart systems and technology stack is a plus.