Responsibilities

- Lead the development and evolution of enterprise data governance frameworks, policies, and standards. Define and enforce data classification, retention, lifecycle, and defensible deletion practices aligned with regulatory requirements.
- Establish governance standards for data protection, including backup, recovery, immutability, and ransomware resilience. Implement data ownership and stewardship models, ensuring accountability across business domains.
- Govern critical data elements and enable enterprise data visibility through cataloging, metadata, and lineage practices. Serve as a subject‑matter expert, ensuring alignment with Legal, Risk, and Compliance, and maintaining audit‑ready governance artifacts.
- Drive enterprise adoption of data governance and resiliency standards, translating governance requirements into enforceable technical controls across data protection platforms.
- Partner with infrastructure and business stakeholders to embed governance into system design and operations, classify and prioritize critical data assets, and ensure consistent governance across structured, unstructured, and SaaS data environments.
- Continuously assess, monitor, and remediate gaps between defined policies and implemented controls. Design and operate enterprise backup, recovery, and cyber‑resiliency solutions aligned with governance standards.
- Optimize backup performance, replication, lifecycle policies, and storage utilization. Implement immutable architectures and ransomware defense strategies. Lead restore testing and recovery simulations, serve as escalation lead for backup, recovery, and data integrity issues.
- Define enterprise RTO and RPO standards aligned to business criticality and risk tolerance. Establish and govern DR and BCP frameworks, ensure alignment with data classification and resiliency objectives, and lead disaster recovery exercises.
- Establish monitoring and reporting for backup performance, policy compliance, and data retention adherence.



Drive continuous improvement across performance, capacity planning, and governance enforcement.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to IT, Security, and business leadership on data governance and resiliency strategy. Partner cross‑functionally with Security, Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to drive aligned outcomes and influence architecture, tooling, and investment decisions.
- Maintain audit‑ready documentation (policies, backup procedures, DR plans, runbooks). Ensure alignment with SLAs, OLAs, and compliance frameworks, and support internal and external audits with defensible evidence.

Qualifications

- 10+ years in Data Governance, Enterprise Backup, and Hybrid Infrastructure Resiliency.
- Deep expertise in data governance, data classification, retention, and regulatory compliance.
- Proven ability to translate policy into technical controls.
- Experience with Microsoft Purview (or similar) and ransomware resilience strategies.
- Strong governance and policy mindset, analytical, detail‑oriented, and audit‑focused.
- Strong documentation, communication, and cross‑team influence.
- Extensive hybrid recovery experience.
- Advanced expertise in Veeam Backup & Replication (mandatory), AvePoint, Commvault (asset).
- Solid familiarity with VMware, Windows/Linux, Azure (required), AWS/GCP (preferred).
- Experience with immutable backups, SAN/NAS/object storage, Microsoft 365 protection.
- Preferred certifications: Data governance / compliance, Veeam (VMCE), Azure, AWS, VMware, Commvault, ITIL.

Salary range: $95,000 - $110,000.

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants of any age, culture, subculture, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnicity, race, size, mental or physical status, veteran status, religion, language, political opinion, working‑style preference, family status, education, and socio‑economic status. Accommodation for applicants with disabilities will be made during the recruitment process when requested.

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📌 Senior Data Governance & Resiliency Analyst (Mississauga)
🏢 J EllisDon
📍 Mississauga