Senior Manager, Business Analysis and Insights - Governance
About the role
Position Summary...
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 help define governance standards, stewardship, and tooling so our data and reporting are trusted, secure, and compliant across business units.
What you'll do...
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.
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Age – 18 or older
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.
Primary Location…
1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada
About Walmart
Sixty years ago, Sam Walton started a single mom-and-pop shop and transformed it into the world’s biggest retailer. Since those founding days, one thing has remained consistent: our commitment to helping our customers save money so they can live better. Today, we’re reinventing the shopping experience and our associates are at the heart of it. When you join our Walmart family of brands, you’ll play a crucial role in shaping the future of retail, improving millions of lives around the world.
We are ecstatic to have been named a Great Place to Work® Certified May 2023 – May 2024, Disability: IN 2023 Best Places to Work, and Fast Company 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators 2023.
This is that place where your passions meet purpose. Join our family and build a career you’re proud of.
Senior Manager, Business Analysis and Insights - Governance
About the role
Position Summary...
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 help define governance standards, stewardship, and tooling so our data and reporting are trusted, secure, and compliant across business units.
What you'll do...
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.
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Age – 18 or older
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.
Primary Location…
1940 Argentia Rd, Mississauga, ON L5N 1P9, Canada
About Walmart
Sixty years ago, Sam Walton started a single mom-and-pop shop and transformed it into the world’s biggest retailer. Since those founding days, one thing has remained consistent: our commitment to helping our customers save money so they can live better. Today, we’re reinventing the shopping experience and our associates are at the heart of it. When you join our Walmart family of brands, you’ll play a crucial role in shaping the future of retail, improving millions of lives around the world.
We are ecstatic to have been named a Great Place to Work® Certified May 2023 – May 2024, Disability: IN 2023 Best Places to Work, and Fast Company 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators 2023.
This is that place where your passions meet purpose. Join our family and build a career you’re proud of.