Role: Senior Data Analyst
Location: Downtown Toronto, Canada
Hybrid: (3 days office, 2 days remote)
Job Summary
We are seeking a Senior Data Analyst to play a pivotal role in a large-scale enterprise migration from GCP BigQuery to Azure Databricks. This position will focus on data discovery, source-to-target mapping, data lineage analysis, migration planning, reconciliation, and business validation activities across various enterprise data domains. The successful candidate will be instrumental in migrating BigQuery datasets, Airflow/Composer workloads, and analytics assets to an Azure Databricks Lakehouse platform.
Responsibilities
Lead data analysis, profiling, discovery, and migration assessment activities.
Perform source-to-target mapping for BigQuery datasets, pipelines, and reporting assets.
Analyze Airflow/Composer workflows and downstream dependencies.
Define migration, reconciliation, and data quality requirements.
Collaborate with Business SMEs, Architects, and Engineering teams to validate migration outcomes.
Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect analysis, data validation, and migration sign-off activities.
Create data lineage, business rules, data dictionaries, and governance documentation.
Mandatory Skills
GCP BigQuery
Apache Airflow / Cloud Composer
Azure Databricks
Spark / PySpark
Data Migration & Data Reconciliation
SQL & Data Analysis
Data Profiling & Data Mapping
Data Lineage & Data Governance
Preferred Skills
Experience with Enterprise Data Lake / Lakehouse architectures
Familiarity with data governance frameworks
Knowledge of data visualization tools
Qualifications
12+ years of Data Analysis experience
Proven experience supporting large-scale cloud data migration programs
This role is critical to the success of our data migration initiative, and we are looking for a candidate w