Director, Data & Analytics - Corporate Services

Graham

  • Calgary, AB
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 1 day ago
Build What MattersAt Graham, one of North America’s largest general contractors, we don’t just build projects, we enable the systems and services that make construction possible. As part of our Corporate Services team, you’ll support impactful work across the region through expertise in HR Advisory, Communications, Supply Chain, Finance, and more.Here, your work has purpose. Your growth is supported. And your impact is lasting.Join a team that builds with commitment, reliability, and integrity. Apply today and help us build what matters.Your Impact Starts HereGraham is actively recruiting for a Director, Data & Analytics supporting the Corporate Services Division. The Director, Data & Analytics, is accountable for advancing the organization’s data and analytics capabilities to a trusted, strategic, and business-owned data ecosystem. Reporting to the VP of IT, this role leads enterprise Data & Analytics strategy, delivery, and operating model while building strong, durable partnerships with business leaders.Success in this role requires a leader who previously led an organization through similar challenges, improving speed to value, clarifying accountability, modernizing ways of working, and elevating data from a technical service to a business asset.This role is critical to transforming how the organization uses data to run the business. It is not about producing more reports, it is about building clarity, accountability, and execution discipline so data becomes a trusted, decision-driving asset.This is a hands-on leadership role focused on strategy, execution, and organizational maturity, not just technology. This role exists to improve decision quality and speed across the organization by elevating data from reporting to decision enablement. By working upstream with business leaders to clarify decisions, outcomes, and measures before solutions are built, the Director, Data & Analytics ensures analytics efforts drive action, accountability, and results.Your Role in Building What Matters – From Office to Site
  • Lead the Data & Analytics function, including Data Engineering and Analytics & Visualization
  • Own the enterprise Data & Analytics roadmap, delivery model, and budget
  • Establish a clear operating model for how analytics demand is managed, prioritized, funded, and delivered
  • Improve speed, predictability, and transparency of delivery
  • Establish accountability across the organization for data, definitions, and outcomes, with IT as an enablement partner
  • Reduce complexity and duplication across data sources through pragmatic architecture and governance
  • Build trust with senior leaders and business leaders by delivering insights that directly support operational and financial decisions
  • Develop managers and senior technical leaders who can execute independently and consistently
Strategy & Operating Model
  • Define and own the enterprise Data & Analytics strategy and roadmap, aligned to business priorities and value realization
  • Design and implement a scalable delivery that supports iterative delivery without constant re-prioritization or failure
  • Establish clear roles, responsibilities, and decision rights between IT, Data & Analytics, and business stakeholders
  • Enable insights that drive actionable results to improve areas of the business
  • Balance central standards with federated execution where appropriate
Business Partnership & Accountability
  • Act as a senior partner to executive and operational leaders to clarify business outcomes before solutions are built, establish data ownership, stewardship, and accountability in the business and set realistic expectations on scope, timelines, and trade-offs
  • Introduce structured approaches to demand intake, prioritization, and backlog management
  • Establish ways of working that shift focus from the status quo to outputs and outcomes that drive enterprise business value
  • Ensure analytics initiatives are explicitly tied to business outcomes, not just reports or dashboards
Delivery & Execution Leadership
  • Lead leaders: coach and develop managers to plan, execute, and deliver consistently
  • Improve estimation, dependency management, and delivery forecasting
  • Ensure solutions are production-ready, supported, and adopted—not just delivered
Data Architecture & Platforms
  • Provide pragmatic leadership across a complex, multi-platform data environment (Azure Data Lake, Databricks, SAP S4/HANA, Power BI, MS Fabric)
  • Partner with Enterprise Architecture to reduce unnecessary complexity, establish clear platform usage patterns and guardrails, and guide platform evolution based on business value, not vendor trends
Governance, Quality & Trust
  • Establish and mature data governance, quality, and standards in a way that enables, not blocks, delivery
  • Introduce consistent definitions, metrics, and master data practices for critical business domains
  • Increase confidence in analytics outputs across the organization
Capability Building & Culture
  • Build a high-performing Data & Analytics leadership team
  • Develop technical talent while reinforcing business thinking and accountability
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and ownership
Financial & Vendor Management
  • Own the Data & Analytics budget, including platforms, tools, and external partners
  • Ensure spend is aligned to outcomes and value realization
  • Manage strategic vendor and partner relationships
The Right Tools for the JobExperience
  • 10+ years in Data, Analytics, or Business Intelligence roles, including senior leadership
  • Proven experience maturing a data & analytics organization in a complex, multi-business environment
  • Demonstrated success improving delivery speed and predictability, business partnership and trust, and data ownership and accountability
  • Experience operating in environments with competing priorities and constrained capacity, multiple data platforms and sources, and many organizational changes initiatives occurring simultaneously
Leadership & Influence
  • Strategic thinker who can translate vision into executable plans
  • Strong executive presence and credibility with senior leaders
  • Comfortable challenging business partners constructively
  • Able to lead leaders, not just individual contributors
Technical & Domain Knowledge
  • Strong understanding of:
  • Data engineering, analytics, and visualization
  • Modern cloud data platforms and architectures
  • Agile and iterative delivery models
  • ERP experience required; SAP experience is a strong asset
  • Experience with Power BI and enterprise analytics platforms required
  • AI/ML experience is beneficial but not the primary focus
Education
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics, Business, or related field
#LI-HYBRIDLay the Foundation for Your Next Career Move. Apply Today.At Graham, we’re building more than structures, we’re building futures. Join a team that delivers excellence from the ground up and makes a lasting impact across Canada.We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and are committed to an inclusive, accessible workplace. Accommodations are available throughout the hiring process when requested. Please contact hiring@jardeg.com for accommodation requests.Unsolicited resumes or candidate profiles will not be accepted and will become the property of Jardeg/Graham.As Graham’s trusted recruitment partner, Jardeg supports the hiring of skilled professionals across Buildings, Industrial, Infrastructure, Water, Development, and Services projects nationwide.

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