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Leads institutional data governance, quality, management, and analytics initiatives. Responsibilities include data profiling, quality investigations, remediation, metadata and glossary management, mastering, governance controls, stakeholder requirements, Ataccama One support, dashboards, reporting, risk analysis, and data literacy. The role collaborates with data stewards, trustees, engineers, and business stakeholders to establish standards, resolve data issues, improve governance processes, and ensure accurate, compliant, decision-ready data.
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The Opportunity
Job classification: P2041 - Systems Analyst II
Salary range: $85,000 - $95,000
Placement within the range is typically based upon a review of skills, experience, and internal equity.
Hours per week: 37.5
Paid leave: 4 Weeks Vacation / 14 Flex Days per year
Deadline to apply: 4:00 PM, September 15, 2026
The Senior Data Analyst is a senior technical contributor within SAIT’s Data Governance Office, responsible for leading assigned data quality, data management, analytics, and governance implementation activities across the institution.
Reporting to the Supervisor, Data Management, the Senior Data Analyst is responsible for the assessment, improvement, and monitoring of institutional data quality. The position ensures trusted, well-governed data is available to support decision-making, operational excellence, compliance, and institutional objectives.
This role combines data governance, analysis, and data quality responsibilities to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and integrity of institutional data. Responsibilities include handling data profiling, complex data quality investigations, remediation initiatives, stewardship activities, metadata management, and governance process improvements.
The role facilitates collaboration with data stewards, trustees, business stakeholders, data engineers, and technical teams to resolve data quality issues, gain alignment on business rules and data standards, promote data literacy, and ensure compliance with institutional data policies and standards.
How you'll contribute
- Develop and maintain business glossaries, metadata, data definitions, data quality rules, business rules, standards, procedures, and supporting policy documentation in collaboration with data stewards, trustees, and governance leads.
- Conduct data profiling, analysis, and quality assessment activities for assigned institutional data domains.
- Identify trends, anomalies, root causes, risks, and opportunities for improvement, and recommend remediation approaches.
- Perform data cleansing, mastering, and management activities for assigned institutional data sets in collaboration with data stewards, data trustees, engineers, and business stakeholders.
- Define business rules and validation logic to improve consistency, accuracy, and usability.
- Develop, implement, and monitor data quality controls, and coordinate stewardship activities for assigned data domains.
- Promote accountability for data assets and escalate unresolved ownership, quality, or compliance risks with recommendations.
- Facilitate stakeholder discussions to translate complex business needs into data requirements, data quality rules, reporting needs, and governance solutions.
- Gain alignment across business and technical stakeholders to support data-informed decision-making.
- Support configuration, testing, maintenance, issue resolution, and continuous improvement activities for Ataccama One and related data management tools within assigned work.
- Partner with technical teams to ensure tool configuration supports governance, data quality, MDM, metadata, and stewardship requirements.
- Develop complex analyses, dashboards, reports, and recommendations that identify data quality trends, operational risks, governance gaps, and opportunities to improve institutional data use.
- Coordinate and facilitate assigned governance working groups and data quality discussions.
- Maintain and improve governance processes and contribute recommendations to governance initiatives, standards, procedures, and controls.
- Develop and deliver data literacy materials, working sessions, and guidance for stakeholders.
- Identify and implement process improvements that enhance data quality, stewardship practices, governance adoption, and effective use of data management tools.
Governance Documentation, Business Glossary and Data Standards:
Data Profiling, Analysis and Quality Management:
Data Mastering and Management:
Data Quality Assurance and Stewardship Support:
Business Requirements and Stakeholder Engagement:
Data Pipeline and Data Management Tool Support:
Data Analytics and Insights:
Data Governance Activities:
Data Literacy and Continuous Improvement:
What you bring
- Bachelor's Degree or Diploma in a related field.
- 5+ years of progressive experience in data governance, data analysis, data management, data quality, or related roles within large, complex organizations, preferably in Higher Education.
- DAMA Certified: Data Management Professional Certified or equivalent.
- Microsoft Certified: Microsoft Data Analytics, Azure, Fabric or related.
- Demonstrated experience in supporting data governance programs, stewardship initiatives, data catalog or business glossaries.
- Advanced knowledge of data governance, data quality, metadata, Master Data Management, data lineage, and data management tools (Ataccama One preferred).
- Experience with Transact-SQL, data warehousing concepts, analytics and reporting tools (Power BI preferred) is an asset.
- Experience conducting data impact analyses and risk assessments.
- Experience designing and implementing data policies, data standards, or standards operating procedures.
- Experience working with data stewards, trustees, business stakeholders, and technical teams to define data rules, resolve data quality issues, support governance processes, and implement data standards.
We sincerely thank all applicants for their interest in this opportunity. We understand how important communication is, and we are committed to following up with every candidate. Please know that each application is thoughtfully reviewed, and you will hear from us either way.
Together, we build bold futures
At SAIT, we equip you with the resources you need to shape bold futures for yourself and our communities. We offer a comprehensive package including:
- Generous time off to pursue other passions and support your wellbeing
- SAIT paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision benefits so you, and your family, are well supported
- Benefits supporting mental health and access to Greenshield + for virtual therapy at a reduced rate
- Access to a Health Spending or Taxable Spending Account
- Professional development opportunities through our Free Seat Program, tuition support, access to LinkedIn Learning and discounted Continuing Education & Professional Studies courses
- Defined Benefit pension through LAPP to help you retire with confidence
- Excellent dining options on campus
- Free access to our fitness facilities and group fitness classes
And the perks keep on coming!
About SAIT
At SAIT, we’re building bold futures. We’re a community of tenacious problem-solvers, inventive thinkers, and passionate collaborators who believe in doing work that matters.
Named one of Alberta’s Top Employers, we’re driven by a desire to create an impact in our community. If you’re looking for a place where purpose meets possibility, you’ve found it here.
We’re committed to community and belonging
Community and belonging is essential to achieving SAIT's vision to be a global leader in applied education. We encourage applications from women, Indigenous people, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Learn more about Community and Belonging at SAIT.
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