22 Oct
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Allied
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Toronto
About Allied
Allied is a leading owner-operator of distinctive urban workspace in Canada’s major cities. Our work is grounded in a clear purpose: to provide knowledge-based organizations with distinctive urban environments that support creativity,connectivityand human wellness.
Our vision is more expansive. Weseekto make a continuous contribution to cities and culture that elevates and inspires the humanity in all of us.Thisvision informs how weoperate, how wedesignand how welead.
Real estate, for us,is not a passive investment. Itis a profoundly human endeavour,one that must promote wellness, sustainability,diversityand creativity—today and for generations to come.
Allied is also a place to build a career of consequence. If you are looking for work that is thoughtful,tangibleand enduring—work that contributes meaningfully to cities and the people who inhabit them—you will find purpose here.
For more information on Allied’s approach to city-building, visit our Insights page.
Purpose
Support and evolve Allied’s enterprise data environment to enable secure, scalable, and insight-driven business operations. As a Data Solutions Architect, Technology, you will provide technical leadership across Allied’s data platform, including enterprise data architecture, integration, data modelling, governance, reporting modernization, and AI enablement. You will help ensure Allied’s data solutions are reliable, well-governed, and aligned with business needs across the organization.
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Data Strategy and Transformation, you will collaborate with Technology, Finance, Leasing, Portfolio Operations, Property Management,
and other business stakeholders to evolve Allied’s Microsoft-centric data ecosystem, including Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Power Platform, Yardi integrations, and related tools. Through solid technical ownership, stakeholder engagement, documentation, and continuous improvement, you will help scale Allied’s data foundation, support the transition to modern reporting and analytics, and enable informed decision-making across the business.
Responsibilities
Area of Work 1: Enterprise Data Architecture and Platform Evolution
- Continue to evolve and scale Allied's enterprise data platform built on Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform, and Power BI, ensuring it remains secure, performant, and aligned with business needs.
- Maintain and advance the target-state architecture, standards, and technology stack; update roadmaps and reference designs as the platform matures.
- Optimize existing data pipelines and ingestion processes from Yardi, Excel, and other operational sources into Fabric.
- Evaluate and implement modern data tools that fit our Microsoft-centric ecosystem while remaining open to complementary solutions (e.g., AWS services, Amazon QuickSight) when they offer faster deployment or better fit.
- Define and enforce standards for documentation, testing, monitoring, and ongoing platform evolution.
Area of Work 2: Data Integration and Engineering
- Own and improve data integration across Yardi ERP, Microsoft services (Power Platform, Fabric, SharePoint, Power BI), smart building systems (BAS, access control, IoT), and third-party applications.
- Build on the streamlined Yardi data extraction and SQL query processes already in place; continue to improve efficiency and reliability.
- Develop and maintain Power Apps for data ingestion and Power BI dashboards for data delivery, building on existing solutions.
- Lead the transition of Yardi reports into Power BI, working closely with end users to manage change and ensure adoption. This requires someone who can introduce new reporting approaches in a way that teams can absorb.
- Work with stakeholders to prioritize new ingestion pipelines, data products, and real-time analytics capabilities.
- Champion data quality, security, lineage, cataloging, and observability; optimize performance and cost of cloud services.
Area of Work 3: Data Governance and Data Modelling
- Work closely with the Data Governance Committee and Data Stewards to advance Allied's Data Governance framework, including data ownership, access controls, sensitivity classification, and retention requirements.
- Continue building and refining the enterprise Data Model so the organization has a clear understanding of what data exists, who owns it, and how it should be managed.
- Champion data quality and ensure governance practices are practical, sustainable, and adopted across the business.
- Support data retention and lifecycle managem
📌 Data Solutions Architect (Toronto)
🏢 Allied
📍 Toronto