Data Consultant, Enterprise Data & Analytics

Your Opportunity 

At Stantec, we design with community in mind. Our team of 34,000 employees across six continents collaborates to bring innovative solutions to life. Are you passionate about collaboration and innovation? Do you want to be part of a global team committed to make community impact? Join our Enterprise Data & Analytics team as a Data Consultant to support data-driven decision-making and contribute to the future of our organization.

We are a forward-thinking Enterprise Data & Analytics team dedicated to empowering decision-making across Stantec through accurate, actionable insights. With data at the core of our operations, we are committed to fostering collaboration, innovation and excellence in everything we do.

This role will support data solution design and development from business requirement intake and assessment, transforming business data into useful insights, supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities, and working with Corporate stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle and post-production support periods under general direction.

Key Responsibilities:

• Requirement Gathering and Management: Work closely with Corporate stakeholders to gather business and user requirements, capture acceptance criteria, and build user stories that can be translated into test cases.
• Data Analysis, Insights & Storytelling: Analyze defined datasets to identify trends, patterns, and insights, and translate findings into clear narratives that support business decisions and stakeholder understanding.
• Data Visualization: Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and visualizations using tools like Power BI, Oracle Data Visualizer, or similar platforms.
• Collaboration: Work with internal team members and cross-functional teams, including IT, Finance, HR, and Operations, to understand data needs and contribute to data solutions that support business value.
• Data Management: Support data quality, integrity, and security by following established data governance and management practices.
• Data Analysis Support: Apply established analytical methods to support business questions and identify practical insights.
• Data Culture Support: Contribute to how we work with data and people, and support a culture of continuous learning and development.

Capabilities & Credentials: 

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Able to capture business requirements and translate to test-driven user stories.
• Able to support source-data profiling analysis and proof-of-concept artifacts to help clarify requirements and contribute to data solutions.
• Able to support the translation of business processes into secure, flexible, and adaptable data models within established standards.
• Able to produce data insights that are easy to consume by our Corporate audience.
• Able to contribute to deliverables using an iterative and incremental approach.
• Working knowledge of SQL, relational databases, and data modelling methodology.
• Strong analytical, organizational, time management, and problem-solving skills.
• Detail-oriented with high-degree of critical thinking. 
• Able to work independently on assigned tasks and escalate when guidance is needed.
• Able to provide and receive feedback.
• Excellent team player with strong sense of responsibility and accountability.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Commerce majoring in Business Technology Management or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 2+ years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, or a similar role.
• Working knowledge of SQL, Power Query, DAX, Python, R, or related programming languages.
• Experience supporting data modelling activities.
• Experience supporting testing activities for data solutions.
• Experienced in participating in UAT workshops with partners and stakeholders.
• Familiarity with citizen-level data wrangling tools such as Excel; exposure to ETL/ELT environments such as Azure Databricks would be an asset.
• Experience using data visualization platforms such as Power BI or Oracle Data Visualizer.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to translate data into clear, practical insights.
• Experience in Agile development methodology and Scrum framework. 
• Familiarity with source-control and document-control tools, such as Git, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Lists, Jira, Confluence.

Bonus:

• Certification in Oracle platform, Microsoft or Azure platforms will be an asset.
• Experience with ERP systems, particularly Oracle is highly desirable. 
• Experience with finance, HR, and project related data would be an asset. 

At Stantec, we have some of the world’s leading professionals passionate about enabling our business to be its best. Our business teams include finance, procurement, human resources, information technology, marketing, corporate development, HSSE, real estate, legal, and practice services. We bring diverse backgrounds, skills, and expertise and create a caring culture where everyone can thrive. Through teamwork and collaboration, we’re building a stronger, more resilient Stantec every day.