Sleep Country Canada is seeking a Director, Data Engineering to lead the enterprise data platform strategy across all business units. This critical role ensures standardised, reliable, and scalable data to support reporting, analytics, and decision-making, while driving consistency across data models, KPIs, and tools. You will enhance team efficiency through modern data practises and oversee reporting platforms, including governance, vendor management, and cost optimisation.
As Director, Data Engineering, you will lead, coach, and mentor a high-performing team, setting clear expectations and fostering their development to achieve business objectives. You will own and evolve enterprise data platforms, ensuring their scalability, reliability, and alignment with business and technology strategies. This role defines and enforces standardised data models, KPI definitions, and business logic across all reporting and analytics platforms, providing a consistent and trusted view of business performance. You will also own the enterprise reporting platform strategy, including tooling, governance, vendor relationships, and cost management, ensuring solutions are standardised, cost-effective, and aligned with business needs. Furthermore, you will improve data delivery velocity by establishing scalable engineering practises, development standards, and automation across data teams, while also establishing and maintaining pragmatic data quality, governance, and monitoring practises to ensure data accuracy, reliability, and transparency across the organisation. You will partner with Business Intelligence, Digital, Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations teams to deliver high-quality data products and drive operational excellence through continuous improvement in reporting delivery processes, data quality monitoring, issue resolution, and service levels.
What You'll Bring
You will possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, Business, Information Systems, or a related field. We are looking for candidates with over ten years of progressive experience in business intelligence, analytics, reporting, data engineering, or data enablement, with experience in retail being a definite asset. You will also have more than five years of experience leading and developing BI, reporting, or analytics teams, demonstrating proven leadership with the ability to coach and scale teams while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Strong experience with BI tools, including PowerBI and Qlik, is required, and experience with Domo or other modern BI platforms is an asset. You should have experience working with retail data domains, including sales, inventory, customer, finance, digital, and supply chain, along with a strong understanding of data models, data warehousing, data pipelines, and how BI depends on trusted data engineering practises. Experience implementing data governance frameworks and data quality management solutions is also essential. Additionally, you will have strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and translate business needs into scalable data solutions, as well as experience managing vendor relationships, including contract negotiation, performance management, and cost optimisation. Excellent communication, organisation, influencing, negotiation, and time management skills, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities, are also highly valued.
Why Join Our Team
At Sleep Country Canada/Dormez-vous?, this is not just a job but a career with opportunities for growth and advancement in a diverse and inclusive work environment. We are committed to investing in you, providing extensive training, mentoring, and continuous development, along with access to training and development platforms. Our comprehensive benefits package includes full medical and dental benefits, a Deferred Profit Sharing Program, and an annual Wellness Credit of up to $250.00 for products or services that improve your health and well-being.
You will also enjoy an Associate Discount Program on some of the world’s best sleep products, maternity/parental leave top-up benefits, and a Tuition Reimbursement Program that covers both professional and personal development. We celebrate our team members with long service awards, various celebrations, and social events. Additionally, we offer an Associate Referral Program and a paid day off to volunteer at your local charity of choice, fostering a culture of community and support.
