(Senior) Data Product Analyst (12-month Contract)

(Senior) Data Product Analyst (12-month Contract) Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, CA, V6C 2T8 Job Summary BC Financial Services Authority (“BCFSA”) helps protect British Columbians during the biggest financial decisions in their lives. We regulate B.C.’s financial services sector, including credit unions, real estate licensees, registered pension plans, insurance and trust companies and mortgage brokers. Through modern, effective and efficient oversight, BCFSA protects consumers by impartially setting and enforcing standards across the entire sector ensuring the prosperity of the province.

BCFSA is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all groups, including Indigenous Peoples, women, visible minorities, persons with disabilities, persons of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (LGBTQ2S+), and others who may contribute to diversity at BCFSA. We recognize unique styles, perspectives, beliefs, and creativity that support a diverse, respectful, inclusive and collaborative work environment. To achieve this, we are committed to: Hiring team members who represent the population we serve; Removing barriers that may prevent equitable employment; and Supporting respectful work environments where everyone feels included and able to produce excellent results.

BCFSA is proud to be selected as one of BC's Top Employers (2025) in recognition of our competitive compensation, work-life balance, and progressive programs. What We Offer When you join us, you become part of a high‑performing team. Here, each Team Member can bring their unique talent to make outstanding contributions as we work towards the common goal of protecting British Columbians during the most important financial transactions in their lives.

Healthy living and work-life balance Comprehensive health and wellness benefits plan Opportunities for personal and professional development Competitive compensation A challenging and engaging team environment Defined benefits pension plan Flexibility of a hybrid work model. They can choose where they want to work to be most effective. Position Overview We are recruiting for a temporary (Senior) Data Product Analyst role within the British Columbia Financial Services Authority (BCFSA) on a 12‑month contract.

Candidates applying through this competition may be considered for two levels based on demonstrated strengths across business intelligence, data‑product development, and reporting/analytics delivery: Senior Data Product Analyst (L4) (salary band: $90,069–$140,235) Data Product Analyst (L3) (salary band: $73,182–$107,310) This role is central to advancing BCFSA’s data strategy and enabling high‑quality, reliable, and standardized data reporting and analytics across the organization. The analyst will support and lead the consolidation of semantic models and front‑end logic into a centralized, governed data layer, ensuring consistency and a single source of truth across the organization. They will translate reporting and analytics needs into clear requirements and usable analytical products for regulatory functions.

Our Data Product Analysts play a critical role in enabling evidence‑based decision‑making, strengthening regulatory insight, and supporting BCFSA’s mandate to protect consumers and promote a stable, transparent, and fair financial services marketplace. Accountabilities Engage with business stakeholders to understand strategic and operational needs and translate requirements into clear data and reporting specifications aligned with enterprise data strategy, providing recommendations on measurement and adoption as needed. Own end-to-end lifecycle of analytical data products (vision, backlog, roadmap, release, maintenance), including defining product KPI and tracking adoption/value.

Lead report development and semantic standardization – design/build dashboards and analytical data products, migrate front‑end logic into a governed semantic layer, and define conceptual and logical data models to standardize entities, metrics, and hierarchies for a single source of truth. Collaborate with data engineering to design and validate data structures within the Lakehouse, ensuring transformations are performed in the platform. Define and maintain standardized KPI definitions, business rules, metric logic, and prepare clear documentation of these requirements and semantic structures.

Conduct data profiling, validation, and reconciliation to ensure data accuracy, quality, and fitness for purpose. Promote and champion data product thinking across the organization, guiding business partners on appropriate request scoping, measurement, and reuse of standardized data assets. Influence and operationalize data governance – lead metric rationalization, shape rules for definitions and semantic assets, and ensure adherence to privacy, security, and quality standards.

Apply visualization and UX best practices to create clear, intuitive, and insight‑driven analytical experiences. Champion data literacy and enablement by mentoring business users, facilitating training, and supporting adoption of self‑service analytics practices, providing functional/practice guidance. Job Requirements Progressive experience in business intelligence, data analysis, data product development, or related fields that combine stakeholder engagement with analytical delivery.

Expertise and hands‑on experience in cloud analytics platforms preferably Microsoft Azure Synapse, Databricks, Azure Data Factory (including Data Flow), GIT‑based version control, and SQL Server. Demonstrated experience gathering, clarifying, and translating business requirements into actionable data specifications, metric definitions, and analytical product requirements. Hands‑on experience developing analytical data products or dashboards using modern BI and analytics tools (e.g.

Power BI). Proficiency in DAX, Power Query, and SQL and experience validating, profiling, and interpreting data from relational databases or cloud data platforms. Strong capability in conceptual and logical data modeling, including defining business entities, relationships, hierarchies, and metric logic.

Understanding of modern data platform concepts (e.g. ETL/ELT, multi‑hop architecture, curated layers, governed data marts) and ability to collaborate effectively with data engineers. Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to challenge assumptions, evaluate data needs, and guide the organization toward value‑driven analytics.

Excellent communication and relationship‑building skills, with demonstrated ability to engage business and technical audiences, facilitate discussions, and influence decision‑making. Experience supporting organizational uplift, including mentoring, training, documentation, and the promotion of data literacy and self‑service analytics practices. Familiarity with financial services industry regulations and compliance requirements is an asset.

Familiarity with predictive analytics or ML‑enabled analytics is an asset. Education Bachelor’s degree in Business/Commerce, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, or related analytical or technical field. Certifications in analytics, business analysis, data modelling, or BI tools are considered strong assets.

Provisos Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada and living in British Columbia or intent to settle in the province. Internal candidates are kindly requested to use their BCFSA email address when applying for this position. This will help us identify and streamline the internal application process.

Hiring Process Accommodation BCFSA wants to ensure every job applicant is treated fairly and with respect and encourages applications from all candidates, including those with diverse abilities. We welcome you to inform us confidentially if you may require any special support in the application process, including disability accommodation, in order to participate fully in our recruitment experience. Email us at [email protected] to notify us of any needs related to your job application. #J-18808-Ljbffr