Data Design Lead

Some of what you will do:

We are seeking a hands-on Data Design Lead with strong technical skills in data governance implementation, data modelling, SQL/NoSQL databases, and cloud data platforms. This role partners closely with Data Engineers, BI teams, and business stakeholders to ensure high-quality, well-governed data is available for reporting, analytics, and operational use across Staples Canada’s retail and e-commerce systems.

The successful candidate will design robust data models, implement governance processes, define and enforce data standards, improve data reliability, and support GCP-based analytical solutions.

Specifically, You Will:

• Design and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models to support retail analytic workloads.
• Partner with analytics teams to expose clean, accurate, governed datasets in BigQuery, Power BI, and Looker.
• Work daily with data engineers to ensure data pipelines meet governance, quality, and modelling standards.
• Contribute to the design of ETL/ELT pipelines for onboarding new datasets.
• Support architecture/design reviews for new data integrations and Power BI semantic models as required.
• Continuously improve modelling practices, governance processes, and data reliability.

Some of what you need:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Management, or related field.
• 7 + years in data management, data modelling, data governance, or data engineering support roles.
• Experience working in a retail or e-commerce environment is strongly preferred.
• Strong SQL expertise across RDBMS (MS SQL Server, BigQuery) and exposure to NoSQL environments.
• Hands-on experience with dimensional modelling, analytical modelling, and retail data structures.
• Working knowledge of GCP data products (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Dataplex, etc.).
• Understanding of ETL/ELT concepts and pipeline design.
• Familiarity with BI tools: Power BI, Looker.
• Experience with data governance or data quality tools and principles.
• Strong understanding of retail and e-commerce data flows and KPIs.

Physical demands/working conditions:

• Office environment – Hybrid, with 4 days onsite in Richmond Hill, subject to the hybrid policy.
• Some travel may be required

Some of what you will get:

• Associate discount
• Health and Dental benefits
• RRSP/DPSP
• Performance bonuses
• Learning & Development programs
• And more...

We value transparency in our hiring processes. Please note, artificial intelligence may be used in certain stages to screen, assess, or select applicants, however, a human reviewer makes all final decisions. This posting is for an existing vacancy.