Senior Manager, Data Analytics - Governance

Walmart•Mississauga, ON

1d•$109,400 - $150,480•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Data Analytics – Governance leads the design and delivery of decision-ready analytics that drive business performance while establishing foundational data governance practices in partnership with various stakeholders in Walmart Canada, Walmart International, and Global Technology teams. This role also owns high-impact analytics roadmaps, BI solutions, and adoption; and helps define governance standards, stewardship, and tooling so our data and reporting are trusted, secure, and compliant across business units.

Requirements

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.
Age – 16 or older

Nice To Haves

Familiarity of regulatory and compliance standards is a plus.
Familiarity with Walmart systems and technology stack is a plus.

Responsibilities

Analytics Strategy and Delivery 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.