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The Senior Data Governance Specialist will be a key member of the Enterprise Data Governance Team, responsible for implementing and supporting data governance solutions. This technical role will focus on developing, configuring, and maintaining enterprise data governance and data quality capabilities to ensure the integrity, accessibility, and usability of OMERS critical data assets. The ideal candidate brings hands-on expertise with metadata management tools such as but not limited to Collibra, Alation, Microsoft Purview, and Horizon, as well as data quality solutions including Informatica and Azure Data Factory. A strong understanding of data governance concepts, metadata management, and data quality frameworks is essential. This position offers the opportunity to shape OMERS enterprise data practices by building and scaling the technical foundation for data governance and quality. The successful candidate will lead data initiatives that support evolving business requirements, drive data enhancements, and deliver innovative solutions for internal partners and stakeholders..

Responsibilities

Configure and maintain Collibra workflows, domain models, and metadata structures.

Enable business glossary management, critical data element (CDE) definitions, lineage, and metadata capture.

Develop integrations between Collibra and other enterprise systems (e.g., ETL, BI, and cloud platforms).

Administer Collibra environments, ensuring performance, access control, and ongoing enhancements.

Design, develop, and optimize ETL pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and integration of data.

Build and deploy data quality rules, scorecards, and monitoring dashboards.

Perform data profiling and cleansing to detect and remediate anomalies and inconsistencies.

Implement best practices for error handling, reusable components, and secure data handling.

Partner with Data Governance Leads and Data Stewards to operationalize governance policies across OMERS and Oxford

Support metadata repositories, data dictionaries, business glossary, and classification of sensitive data.

Contribute to the definition and tracking of governance KPIs, data quality metrics, and compliance dashboards.

Provide technical training and guidance to business and technology stakeholders on Collibra and Informatica capabilities.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.

Minimum of 5–7 years of technical experience with data management and governance solutions.

Strong understanding of metadata management, data lineage, data cataloging, and business glossary management.

Experience in data quality design and implementation (profiling, parsing, standardization, cleansing, enrichment).

Proficiency in SQL and relational databases (MS SQL, Oracle) with ability to query and analyze data.

Exposure to cloud data platforms (Azure, Snowflake, AWS, or GCP) and concepts such as data lakes, data warehouses, and big data pipelines.

Familiarity with visualization/reporting tools (Power BI, Tableau) for data quality and governance dashboards.

A people- first focus with a desire to develop meaningful, positive relationships with key D&T stakeholders and business partners (Investment Teams, Corporate, Pensions, Oxford) to make governance real.

Proactive and results oriented with good time management skills and the ability to work well under pressure and focus on multiple tasks concurrently.

A desire to drive debate, to speak candidly and to listen empathetically.

Strong orientation towards strategy and changes and ability to drive results..

Understanding of Agile and Change Management practices.

Certifications in Collibra, Informatica, or Data Governance frameworks are a plus.

We believe that time together in the office is important for OMERS and Oxford, the strength of our employees, and the work we do for our pension members. In delivering on our pension promise, keeping us connected to our work and each other, our flexible hybrid work guideline requires teams to come in to the office 4 days per week.

As one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities where we live and work — and the members we proudly serve.

From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.