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World Vision Canada
World Vision Canada
201 – 500 Employees
CharityNon-profitSocial Impact
World Vision Canada is a Christian humanitarian non-profit focused on reducing child poverty and strengthening the wellbeing of vulnerable children, families, and communities. The organization supports child sponsorship, disaster and emergency response, community-led development, and advocacy, with programs addressing clean water, education, health, protection, and food assistance. Funded through donations and membership support in Canada, World Vision Canada works with churches, corporations, and individual donors to advance children’s rights and respond to humanitarian needs, including emergency situations such as Sudan.
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Senior Data Architect, Canada Remote

Lead enterprise data architecture at World Vision Canada, shaping cloud platforms, data governance, security and reusable data products. This remote role is based in Canada and focuses on setting standards across teams and vendors.

CACanadaRemoteFull-timeSeniorLeadEnglish RequiredData Engineer
CloudPythonSQL

Description

  • Shape the enterprise data architecture, including conceptual, logical and physical designs, platforms, canonical models and standards.
  • Present architecture direction, roadmaps and significant design decisions to senior leaders.
  • Set integration and interoperability standards for interfaces, schema contracts, contract-first patterns and secure data exchange.
  • Design governed, reusable data products, master data structures, consolidated records and analytical models.
  • Set standards for data quality, master data management, retention and remediation.
  • Define standards for AI and machine learning data use and platform portability.
  • Set security, classification, protection and access-control standards for sensitive data.
  • Create and maintain data models, reference architectures, data-flow diagrams, decision records and standards documentation.
  • Guide solution and vendor designs through delivery, align reviews, support implementation and revise architecture when needed.

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Enterprise architecture or cloud data platform certification, such as TOGAF or a recognized cloud data credential, is preferred.
  • At least 10 years of experience in data management, including data modelling, data engineering or data science.
  • At least five years in data architecture, including lakehouse or warehouse-native approaches and batch and streaming flows across Snowflake and other cloud data platforms.
  • Experience owning enterprise data architecture, setting standards adopted across teams and vendors, and presenting direction to senior leaders.
  • Experience delivering master data and golden record solutions, governed reusable data products and warehouse-native customer data platforms.
  • Experience setting data design direction for solution architects and delivery partners.
  • Experience designing data protection, classification and access controls for sensitive information.
  • Experience in a nonprofit or mission-driven organization is preferred.
  • Experience defining data and API contracts, schema registries and contract testing.
  • Advanced conceptual, logical and physical data modelling skills, including relational and dimensional modelling, plus strong SQL.
  • Familiarity with dbt, ELT approaches and orchestration tools.
  • Familiarity with Python or a comparable scripting language.
  • Understanding of CI/CD and automated data testing, including contract and schema tests.
  • Knowledge of data mesh, data fabric and lakehouse approaches.
  • Familiarity with data catalog and metadata management tools.
  • Proficiency with ArchiMate or UML and architecture modelling tools.
  • Experience working within Enterprise Agile frameworks.
  • Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Ability to build agreement across technical and business teams.
  • Sound judgement when addressing complex, ambiguous design challenges.
  • Ability to document design decisions, apply standards consistently and support recommendations with evidence.

Benefits

  • Health spending account.
  • Pension contributions matched up to 6%.
  • Parental leave top-up.
  • Generous paid vacation, sick leave, wellness days and personal days.
  • Six additional office closure days each year before long weekends.
  • Recognition among top employers in Canada and the Greater Toronto Area.
  • An agile-minded workplace.

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