Data Analyst

Location: Mississauga, ON, Hybrid, 2 days on-site

Language: Strong written and spoken English/ French communication skills

Duration: 6-month contract to start, with potential to transition to permanent

About the Opportunity

Join an innovation-focused team where new ideas are tested against real data before they move forward. This Data Management Analyst role is ideal for someone who enjoys digging into unfamiliar and sometimes messy data, uncovering how it works, and turning complexity into insight that teams can confidently act on.

Working within a large healthcare and pharmaceutical environment, youll collaborate closely with business and technical stakeholders to understand data across legacy platforms, dashboards, extracts, spreadsheets, and back-end systems. Youll be the person who gets into the data early, challenges assumptions with evidence, and helps determine whether an idea has the foundation to succeed.

Whats In It for You

Youll gain exposure to high-impact innovation initiatives while working across diverse business and technical teams. This is an opportunity to build deep organizational knowledge, influence important decisions, and create reusable data documentation that makes future projects faster and smarter.

Your Responsibilities

• Youll profile unfamiliar datasets and assess data quality, feasibility, and readiness for new initiatives.
• Youll investigate and reconcile data across AS400 environments, user interfaces, BI extracts, Excel files, DataHub environments, and other systems.
• Youll reuse, adapt, combine, and validate SQL queries and data extracts, explaining discrepancies across sources.
• Youll own data discovery, lineage, definitions, data dictionaries, documentation, and business rules.
• Youll identify data gaps, inconsistencies, dependencies, and ambiguities before they impact project delivery.
• Youll partner with business and technical stakeholders to understand data sources, calculations, processes, and usage.
• Youll translate findings into clear, decision-ready insights that help determine which ideas move forward.

Skills and Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Data Analyst, Business Data Analyst, or Data Management Analyst in complex data environments.
• Strong hands-on SQL, data profiling, exploratory analysis, data quality, and validation skills.
• Experience working with legacy platforms such as AS400 and fragmented or in-house data environments.
• Strong documentation skills covering data lineage, dictionaries, definitions, governance, and business rules.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to bridge business and technical audiences.
• Familiarity with Alation or similar data governance tools, Power BI, Tableau, data warehouses, or data lakes is an asset.
• Healthcare, pharmaceutical, distribution, innovation, discovery, or R&D experience is considered an asset.

We appreciate the time and effort all applicants invest in their submissions. Please note that only candidates shortlisted for this role will be contacted directly. However, your profile will remain under consideration for future opportunities that align with your experience and career goals.

All qualified applicants will receive fair consideration for employment. We welcome individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities including those who identify as women, members of racialized groups, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.

If you require an accommodation, please review our accessibility policy and reach out to our accessibility officer with any questions.

Our human recruiters review all applications and always make the final hiring decision. On occasion, we also use AI-assisted tools to help review applications.