30 Oct
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Ian Martin Group
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Calgary
30 Oct
Ian Martin Group
Calgary
Senior Analytics Advisor
- Contract Length : 6 Months
- Work Type : Hybrid
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Location:
Calgary, AB Job Overview:
- As a Senior Advisor, Analytics, you will translate operational and financial data into actionable insights that directly influence pipeline performance, safety, regulatory compliance, and business unit financial outcomes. This role serves as a bridge between pipeline operations, advanced analytics, and AI-enabled decision support, ensuring leaders have access to timely, accurate, and impactful intelligence to optimize system performance.
- You will act as a senior technical advisor, leveraging up-to-date analytics platforms such as Databricks, advanced programming capabilities in Python, SQL, and VBA, and AI-powered tools including Copilot agents to scale insight generation, scenario modeling, and decision support across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead advanced analytical problem-solving by transforming operational, financial, and market data into decision-ready insights using Python, SQL, and Databricks.
- Design, develop, and interpret complex analytical outputs, including trends, anomalies, forecasts, and scenario analyses, to identify performance improvement opportunities, strengthen risk controls, and support strategic decision-making.
- Build and maintain AI-enabled analytics solutions, including Copilot agents, to automate recurring analyses, explain metrics, and accelerate insight delivery.
- Perform financial and economic analyses, including revenue impact assessments and marginal cost evaluations, to support strategic planning and capital allocation decisions.
- Partner with data engineers and analytics teams to define data requirements, enhance data quality, and improve dashboards, self-service analytics capabilities, and decision-support tools.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across Customer Service & System Performance, Finance, Strategy, and Investor Relations to align analytics initiatives with business objectives.
- Monitor emerging technologies, industry trends, AI advancements, and regulatory developments to continuously evolve analytics practices and capabilities.
- Support team development through mentoring, knowledge sharing, documentation, training materials, and promotion of analytics and AI best practices.
- Provide analytical leadership and expert guidance on complex operational and business challenges with significant financial and operational implications.
- Communicate complex analytical findings and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership. Scope and Impact
- Provides technical leadership, mentorship, and analytical guidance to junior and intermediate team members without direct supervisory responsibility.
- Serves as a key contributor within a collaborative analytics and operations environment supporting enterprise-wide optimization initiatives.
- Exercises independent judgment in evaluating and resolving complex analytical and operational issues.
- Maintains a broad understanding of business operations, technical systems, financial performance drivers, customer impacts, and regulatory requirements.
- Supports major pipeline systems across Canada and the United States,
including liquids pipeline operations and related business entities.
- Influences senior stakeholders by translating complex metrics, operational trade-offs, and system behaviors into meaningful business insights and recommendations. Qualifications
- Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in pipeline operations, midstream energy, operational analytics, or a related field with increasing levels of responsibility.
- Experience analyzing operational and near real-time data from systems such as AVEVA PI System, SCADA platforms, or similar operational technologies.
- Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python, with hands-on experience developing analytical workflows in cloud-based analytics environments, preferably Databricks.
- Strong Excel expertise, including automation and analysis using VBA.
- Demonstrated experience developing dashboards and analytics solutions using Power BI or similar business intelligence tools.
- Practical experience utilizing AI-enabled analytics solutions and Copilot agents to automate analysis, explain metrics, and support scenario modeling.
- Strong capability in developing what-if analyses and sensitivity models to assess operational, market, and regulatory impacts.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to translate complex analytics into executive-level insights and recommendations.
- Proven ability to work independently on complex initiatives while collaborating effectively across cross-functional teams.
- Preferred
- Industry-recognized certifications in cloud analytics, data engineering, or applied analy
📌 Senior Analytics Advisor (Calgary)
🏢 Ian Martin Group
📍 Calgary