Senior Data Governance & Resiliency Analyst

EllisDon•Mississauga, ON

2d•CA$95,000 - CA$110,000

About The Position

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Requirements

10+ years in Data Governance, Enterprise Backup, and Hybrid Infrastructure Resiliency.
Deep expertise in data governance, data classification, retention, and regulatory compliance
Proven ability to translate policy into technical controls
Experience with Microsoft Purview (or similar) and ransomware resilience strategies
Strong governance and policy mindset
Analytical, detail-oriented, and audit-focused
Strong documentation, communication, and cross-team influence
Extensive hybrid recovery experience
Veeam Backup & Replication (mandatory)
AvePoint, Commvault (asset)
Strong: VMware, Windows/Linux, Azure (required)
AWS/GCP (preferred)
Experience: Immutable backups, SAN/NAS/object storage, Microsoft 365 protection

Nice To Haves

Certifications (Preferred): Data governance / compliance. Veeam (VMCE), Azure, AWS, VMware, Commvault, ITIL

Responsibilities

Lead the development and evolution of enterprise data governance frameworks, policies, and standards.
Define and enforce data classification, retention, lifecycle, and defensible deletion practices aligned with regulatory requirements.
Establish governance standards for data protection, including backup, recovery, immutability, and ransomware resilience.
Implement data ownership and stewardship models, ensuring accountability across business domains.
Govern critical data elements and enable enterprise data visibility through cataloging, metadata, and lineage practices.
Serve as a subject matter expert, ensuring alignment with Legal, Risk, and Compliance, and maintaining audit-ready governance artifacts.
Drive enterprise adoption of data governance and resiliency standards, providing leadership with insights on data risk posture, governance maturity, and resiliency readiness.
Translate governance requirements into enforceable technical controls across data protection platforms, ensuring compliance with retention, immutability, and archival standards.
Partner with infrastructure and business stakeholders to embed governance into system design and operations, and to classify and prioritize critical data assets.
Ensure consistent governance across structured, unstructured, and SaaS data environments.
Continuously assess, monitor, and remediate gaps between defined policies and implemented controls.
Design and operate enterprise backup, recovery, and cyber-resiliency solutions aligned with governance standards.
Optimize backup performance, replication, lifecycle policies, and storage utilization.
Implement immutable architectures and ransomware defense strategies.
Lead Restore Testing and Recovery Simulations to validate readiness.
Serve as escalation lead for backup, recovery, and data integrity issues, including RCA and remediation.
Ensure consistent policy application across hybrid environments (on-prem, cloud, SaaS).
Align data protection with classification, compliance, and resiliency requirements, eliminating single points of failure.
Define enterprise RTO and RPO standards aligned to business criticality and risk tolerance.
Establish and govern DR and BCP frameworks, ensuring alignment with data classification and resiliency objectives.
Lead disaster recovery exercises, recovery validation, and audit readiness activities.
Identify, assess, and remediate gaps in resiliency and recovery capabilities.
Ensure DR practices are fully documented, regularly tested, and compliant with enterprise and regulatory requirements.
Establish monitoring and reporting for backup performance, policy compliance, and data retention adherence.
Drive continuous improvement across performance, capacity planning, and governance enforcement.
Leverage automation to standardize operations, strengthen compliance, and enhance reporting consistency.
Serve as a trusted advisor to IT, Security, and business leadership on data governance and resiliency strategy.
Partner cross-functionally with Security, Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to drive aligned outcomes.
Influence architecture, tooling, and investment decisions related to data protection and governance.
Provide strategic guidance on cloud adoption, migrations, and enterprise data protection approaches.
Support audit readiness and mentor team members on governance standards and resiliency best practices.
Maintain audit-ready documentation (policies, backup procedures, DR plans, runbooks).
Ensure alignment with SLAs, OLAs, and compliance frameworks.
Support internal and external audits with defensible evidence.