The Technical Standards and Safety Authority (TSSA) is a not‑for‑profit regulator dedicated to enhancing public safety across Ontario. TSSA’s team of over 450 professionals delivers safety oversight across multiple regulated sectors through technical expertise, compliance, and collaboration with industry partners. At TSSA, safety is embedded in our culture and all aspects of our work. Each role at TSSA has an impact on keeping Ontarians safe through engagement, evidence, enforcement, and education. We help build a safer community
Data analytics is central to TSSA’s vision for a safer Ontario. As part of the Data Analytics team, you’ll harness advanced analytics to guide priorities, solve complex problems and influence decisions to ensure our actions have the greatest impact on public safety. Here, your skills will help deliver a proactive, risk-informed and outcome-based approach that truly matters. If you thrive on collaboration, experimentation, and continuous learning, you’ll find the support and environment to grow with us.
Your Key Contributions:
- Support Enterprise Data Architecture: Design and maintain enterprise data architecture, including conceptual, logical, and physical data models that align with business requirements and support scalable analytics and reporting.
- Support Data Modelling & Optimization: Develop and optimize data models and storage solutions in collaboration with infrastructure teams to enhance performance and cost efficiency.
- Support Requirements & Solution Alignment: Partner with business and technical stakeholders to gather, document, and translate data requirements into effective architectural solutions.
- Support Data Governance & Compliance: Contribute to data governance frameworks, supporting initiatives related to data security, classification, privacy, and regulatory compliance.
- Support Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend enhancements to improve data platforms, architecture, and overall system capabilities.
- Support Standards & Best Practices: Provide guidance to Data Engineers, BI Analysts, and Data Scientists to promote consistent use of data standards, models, and governance practices.
- Support Project Delivery: Contribute to ongoing data initiatives and project‑based work, providing architectural expertise as required.
Your Qualifications & Key Strengths:
Education:
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science or a related quantitative field.
Experience:
- Minimum 5 years experience designing and maintaining data architecture, with 10 years of working in enterprise data architecture, data modelling, or data engineering.
- Experience with data governance policies and compliance standards.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Possess or working towards Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) designation preferred.
- Strong ability to design scalable data systems that meet business and technical requirements.
- Skilled in documenting data pipelines, catalogues, and lineage for analytics and reporting.
- Excellent communication skills to translate technical concepts for diverse audiences.
- Ability to work independently and make decisions that impact enterprise data strategy.
- Working experience with tools such as Python, Microsoft Azure, Fivetran, DBT, Knime, and Dataiku.
Helpful Information That Matters:
Hiring Range Details: The hiring range for this role is $98,460 – 135,383. The annual salary may vary within this range depending on a number of factors, including the candidate's qualifications.
Fostering a Strong Safety Culture: TSSA has earned the 5-Star Safety Cultures Award from Canadian Occupational Safety magazine for three consecutive years (2022-2024). For more information on TSSA and our values, please visit TSSA Careers (https://www.tssa.org/tssa-careers).
Equal Opportunity Employer: TSSA is committed to diversity and inclusion. We are committed to building and maintaining collaborative, caring, and positive work environments so that our employees bring their whole selves to work each and every day. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply without regard to race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status or disability. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Accommodation: TSSA is pleased to offer accommodation for applicants with disabilities. If you are interested in applying for a job opportunity, or are contacted by us regarding a job opportunity, please advise of any accommodation you may require.
Posting Details: This job posting is for an existing vacancy within TSSA. We are actively seeking a qualified candidate to fill the current position. We encourage all interested applicants to apply. TSSA uses AI to support the screening of pre-screening question responses. Even if an application is flagged by the system, our team endeavours to review all candidates' qualifications and experience.
