About CMHC

At CMHC, the work you do and the work we do together matters. We come to work every day with a common purpose: to realize a future where everyone in Canada has a home that they can afford and meets their needs.

Our people are second to none. We lean in with courage, band together as a community and try new things to make a lasting impact on housing from coast to coast to coast.

Join us and be part of a team that's committed to making a real difference and be part of something meaningful.

What’s in it for you

We’ve got the purpose, the people and the perks you need for a fulfilling career. Here’s what you get when you’re a permanent employee:

• 5 weeks of vacation
• Annual individual performance bonus
• Defined benefit pension plan
• Comprehensive group insurance plan to support your well-being from day one
• Support in your personal and professional growth with training, mentorship and more – because when you thrive, we thrive
• An inclusive workplace culture and environment with Employee Resource Groups and more
• A hybrid work model that lets you balance working from home and nurturing in-person connections by coming into your region’s office at a minimum of 4 times a month.

About the role

Join the Enterprise Architecture and Advanced Analytics team. This is a technical role, developing architectures and designing solutions that leverage a state-of-the-art cloud-based analytics platform (including Microsoft Azure, Data Bricks, Azure ML, Azure Cognitive Services and PowerBI) while providing guidance on its evolution. You will be responsible for the translation of the client's business and analytic requirements into future state architectures and solutions, including the business and technical roadmaps required to achieve the target state. As a team member, the role has individual specialization and accountability to advance Analytics architecture, technology, projects, and expertise at CMHC.

What you’ll do:

• Ensures all aspects of the analytics ecosystem’s solution architecture are optimized by working with subject matter experts in the areas of analytics, IT enterprise architecture, business lines and external partnerships to understand needs and new opportunities. This role envisions, recommends and documents solutions to project leads and senior leadership.
• Leverages knowledge of the organization’s information, application, and infrastructure architecture as well as the current technology landscape to design a holistic and optimized analytics platform. The incumbent understands architecture artifacts and can write/edit them.
• Optimizes solution environments that considers functional requirements (e.g., benchmarking systems, analyzing system bottlenecks, developing verification criteria and statistical analysis) as well as non-functional attributes (e.g., security, availability, performance, and stability). The incumbent is responsible for planning, designing, and reviewing these key characteristics of the analytics platform to help ensure that it complies with enterprise standards and that it performs adequately as additional analytics solutions are implemented.
• Influences and oversees the industrialization of analytics ensuring high performance of solutions in the platform as well as maturing the analytics capability.
• Works with program and project managers in the design, planning and governance of implementing projects, as much as new value-added uses of CMHC data, information, and analytical capabilities to audiences both internal and external to CMHC.
• Builds relationships with broader analytics community at CMHC and works with analytics practitioners and data architects to adopt best practices and standards for data and analytics.
• Performs a key management and thought leadership role in the areas of advanced data techniques, including data modeling, data access, data integration, data visualization, text mining, data discovery, statistical methods, database design and implementation.
• Effective management of the budget and resources assigned to the development of analytical models and an analytics culture at CMHC.

What you should have:

• Undergraduate degree in a quantitative field, such as Statistics, Economics, Commerce, Computer Science, Engineering.
• Minimum of 7 years of advanced experience in analytics, analysis, data management, data architecture, integrated database design, data security, performance tuning, optimization methods, industrialization of initiatives including functional leadership experience in a complex data-driven organization.
• Expert knowledge of Big Data technologies (e.g., Hadoop, Spark), relational databases, programming (Python and/R with Spark), data preparation tools and data visualization (e.g., PowerBI, R, Python).
• Experience in defining data standards, data governance and data lineage, and data migration between database technologies.
• Experience in handling large data volumes, deep understanding of data marts, data warehouse architecture, multidimensional databases, data lakes, and data / model migration and program optimization and application scalability solutions.
• Strong communication, presentation and influencing skills (written, verbal and cross-cultural communication skills), including the ability to speak and write clearly and succinctly in a variety of settings and styles as well as communicating messages at multiple levels in the organization.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities. Expert skill in identifying and analyzing trends, patterns, or connections between issues, forecast impacts of change and recommend solutions.

It would be great if you also had:

• Master's degree.
• Financial services industry experience.

Posting closing date: Note, the competition will remain active until filled.

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

We’re committed to employment equity and encourage women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, veterans and persons of all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions to apply. We also welcome applications from non-Canadians who are eligible to work in Canada.

CMHC is an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought – and of people – are recognized, valued, and considered essential to achieving our mission.

Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion

What happens after you apply

We know that applying for a new job can be both exciting and daunting, and we appreciate your effort. Learn more about our hiring process . If you are selected for an interview or testing, please advise us if you require an accommodation.

If you applied before and you were not successful don’t worry – we're always posting new positions, so don’t hesitate to give it another shot. We’re excited to see what you bring to the table this time around!