Senior Manager, Data Services & Platforms
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Mississauga - Canada
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Job Summary
As Canadas leading integrated freight package and logistics provider weve been helping promises get where they need to be for more than 60 years. How does the magic happen The journey starts with you. The places we go the elements we brave the promises we deliver its all possible because of our people. So whether youre looking to build new skills make an impact in your community or inspire your team we go there for you.
The Senior Manager Data Services & Platform is a newly established leadership role within the Data Governance & Analytics (DG&A) Hub at Purolator. This role owns two connected capabilities that form the technical backbone of the D&A organization: Data Services (architecture and engineering) and Platform Services (optimization and operational support of enterprise data platforms).
This role provides dedicated ownership for platforms architecture and engineering by establishing the technical standards scalability and sustainability that the rest of the D&A Hub and its Spoke partners depend on. The role reports to the Senior Director Enterprise Data & AI Strategy and leads a team of Data Architects Data Engineers and Data platform owners and support teams.
Data Architecture & Engineering
- Develop and maintain the enterprise data & AI architecture blueprint aligned to Purolators D&A strategy and AI-first principles
- Design and standardize data ingestion transformation and distribution patterns across source systems and analytical platforms
- Lead the build and evolution of data pipelines on AWS (Glue Step Functions S3) and Azure Data Factory ensuring reliability observability and testability
- Define data modelling standards in conceptual logical physical and canonical data models for Finance Operations and Customer domains
- Oversee the SAP BDC semantic layer POC and guide integration architecture between SAP S/4HANA and enterprise Agentic BI/analytics platforms
- Ensure engineering practices are reusable well-documented and aligned with the governed Data Product lifecycle
- Collaborate with Data Governance on metadata management lineage and data quality integration within the architecture
- Own the semantic model layer tabular models DAX(Data Analysis Expressions) at enterprise scale calculation groups row-level and object-level security incremental refresh and Direct Lake as the single source of consumption semantics for enterprise Power BI
- Set DAX standards semantic model version control and CI/CD promotion using Fabric deployment pipelines and XMLA endpoint governance
- Define and enforce a certified-dataset strategy that eliminates scattered Power BI dataset copies across business units
Platform Management & Optimization
- Own the operational health and performance of key D&A platforms and AI components: Azure Fabric Azure Power BI (tenant administration capacity optimization gateway management) AWS (Glue Redshift S3 IAM) Ataccama DQ/MDM modules and related tooling
- Define and execute platform roadmaps including migration upgrade and consolidation initiatives.
- Establish and enforce platform governance: access controls cost management usage monitoring and SLAs
- Lead DevOps and CI/CD implementation for data platform deployments ensuring consistent and repeatable release management
- Manage relationships with platform vendors and negotiate technical support arrangements in partnership with Procurement and Vendor Management
- Drive ITS collaboration on infrastructure cloud provisioning network and security requirements for data platforms and AI components
- Govern Microsoft Fabric capacity CU sizing workload balance and auto-scale policies across Finance Operations and Customer workspaces
- Own Power BI tenant governance end-to-end: workspace hygiene gateway estate deployment pipelines Dev-Test-Prod endorsement (Certified / Promoted) and Copilot enablement
- Rationalise dataflows and datamarts against a Fabric-first target state as part of the Qlik Exit and legacy BI modernization
People Leadership
- Lead coach and develop a team of Data Architects and Data Engineers setting clear goals performance expectations and growth paths
- Build team capability in modern cloud data engineering platform operations and AI-ready architecture patterns
- Foster a culture of standardization documentation and engineering excellence within the team
- Collaborate closely with Delivery Management Data Governance and Analytics teams to ensure the technical foundation supports business outcomes
Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Engagement
- Act as the primary technical liaison between the D&A Hub and ITS (Infrastructure Cloud Security) teams
- Represent the Data Services & Platform tower in D&A SteerCo and portfolio planning forums
- Support Finance Operations and other Spoke partners in understanding platform capabilities and architectural direction
- Contribute technical input to business cases RFPs and SOW evaluations for data platform investments
- A post-secondary degree or diploma in Data Science Computer Science Information Technology Statistics Mathematics or a related field.
- 8 years of progressive experience in data engineering data architecture or data platform management
- 3 years in a people leadership role (manager or senior manager level) with direct reports
- Demonstrated expertise in cloud data platforms AWS (Glue S3 Redshift Step Functions) and/or Azure (ADF Power BI ADLS)
- Familiarity with data governance platforms such as Ataccama (or similar: Alation Collibra Informatica)
- Hands-on experience designing and building enterprise-scale data pipelines and integration architectures
- Strong background in data modelling conceptual logical and physical across operational and analytical contexts
- Practical experience with platform administration: Power BI tenant management capacity planning performance optimization
- Track record of driving platform standardization DevOps enablement and release management in a data context
- Strong stakeholder communication skills able to translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences
- Expertise in Microsoft Fabric Semantic Models such as tabular modelling DAX at enterprise scale calculation groups row-level and object-level security incremental refresh Direct Lake and composite models
- 5 years leading enterprise Power BI development - canonical semantic models deployment pipelines XMLA endpoint governance gateway estate and Copilot-enabled analytics
- Demonstrated experience defining and enforcing a certified-dataset strategy across multiple business domains
Preferred
- Experience with SAP integration architectures (S/4HANA BW BDC ODP) and semantic layer design
- Exposure to BI migration initiatives
- Understanding of DataOps and MLOps practices and tooling
- Experience in logistics supply chain or parcel delivery industry environments
- Relevant cloud certifications: AWS Solutions Architect Azure Data Engineer Associate or equivalent
- Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600) and/or Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)
- Familiarity with Ataccama Fabric Data Activator OneLake shortcuts and cross-cloud mirroring (Semantic Models OneLake Direct Lake DAX XMLA)
- Experience running BI rationalisation programs (dataset consolidation workspace re-organisation endorsement rollout)
Language Requirement: Proficiency in English is required for this position due to the frequent communications that must be conducted in English with various stakeholders. This requirement is justified by the nature of the responsibilities and operational needs.
POSTING DETAILS
Location: 530 - Corporate
Working Conditions: Office Environment
Reports to: Senior Director Data & Artifcial Intelligence
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About Company
To succeed and grow, small business owners need a courier they can trust. Rely on Purolator for time-definite shipping, so you can focus on your business.
