Senior Manager- Enterprise BI

Job Description

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., (ACT) is a global Fortune 200 company. A leader in the convenience store and fuel space, it has footprints across 31 countries and territories. Circle K India Data & Analytics team is an integral part of ACT’s Global Data & Analytics Team and the Senior Manager- Enterprise BI will be a key player on this team that will help grow analytics globally at ACT.

The hired candidate will partner with multiple departments, including Global Marketing, Merchandising, Global Technology, and Business Units.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced individual to lead design, development, and maintenance of BI solutions that drive business insights. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Power BI, and UI/UX design principles to enhance user experience and interface for business reporting. This role will require working closely with business stakeholders to provide data-driven insights that influence decision-making at an enterprise level. You will lead a distributed team of BI professionals including engineers, developers, analytics.

Roles & Responsibilities

BI Architecture & Development

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather reporting needs and translate them into effective BI solutions

• Own the BI solution architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise data platforms (e.g., Azure Synapse, Databricks, Snowflake)

• Deep understanding of data modelling techniques, ETL/ELT processes, and database technologies (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, cloud-based data warehouses like Snowflake, Databricks,)

• Experience with various BI and analytics tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, looker)

• Experience with cloud-based BI and analytics services (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) is highly desirable

• Excellent SQL skills and experience in optimizing complex queries

• Understanding multiple data sources and putting together practical and viable data models to support analytical analysis. This would include understanding data mapping and translation from source to target state

BI Governance

• Oversee end-to-end design, development, and deployment of scalable dashboards, semantic models, and advanced data visualizations using Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools

• Managing a backlog of work for the team while also working with the team to effectively move through our backlog

• Define and enforce standards for report catalogue and governance framework for triage/decommission

• Work closely with business teams and engineering to ensure seamless data integration and accessibility

Performance Optimization & Scalability

• Tune complex DAX, SQL queries, power query and data models for performance across large retail datasets

• Implement and monitor BI SLAs and refresh strategies, ensuring high availability and consistency

• Define performance baselines for visual loads, dataset refresh times, and user concurrency

• Optimize Power BI dashboards for performance, including query optimization, data caching, and report rendering

• Develop and implement best practices for Power BI development, deployment, and maintenance

Tooling & Automation

• Automation C Innovation: Identify opportunities to automate reports, improve efficiency, and enhance visualization techniques

• Lead implementation of CI/CD pipelines for BI (e.g., using Git, Azure DevOps, or Power BI deployment pipelines)

• Drive standardization and templating of visuals, themes, and KPI frameworks across the org

Operational Excellence

• Develop and standardize programming code for analytics solution and leverage version control systems

• Follow industry standards in coding solutions and follow programming life cycle to ensure standard practices across the project

• Structure hypothesis, build thoughtful analyses, develop underlying data models, and bring clarity to previously undefined problems

People Management and Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead a distributed team of 5–15 BI professionals including engineers, developers, and analysts, product owners

• Define KPIs for delivery, report usage, and business adoption

• Drive stakeholder alignment across tech and business to ensure BI initiatives are outcome-driven and tightly integrated with business processes

• Stay updated on reporting trends, and emerging technologies that could improve the reporting process

Job Requirements

Education

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably with a quantitative focus (Statistics, Business Analytics, Data Science, Math, Economics, etc.)

• Master’s degree preferred (MBA/MS Computer Science/MTech Computer Science, etc.)

Relevant Experience

• 10+ years of BI experience with deep expertise in Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools

• 3+ years managing technical BI teams in an enterprise

Technical Skills

• Advanced skills in Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Power Query, DAX, SQL, and dimensional modelling

• Strong understanding of data architecture concepts, including data Lakehouse,

• Hands-on experience with Azure (e.g., Data Factory, Synapse, Key Vault, ADLS Gen2),

• Databricks, or Snowflake

• Proven ability to work effectively in a global environment with people at all levels,

Behavioural Skills

• Delivery Excellence

• Business disposition

• Social intelligence

• Innovation and agility

• Purposeful leadership

Knowledge

• Knowledge of governance frameworks for KPI alignment, report standardization, and data security

• Exposure to Python, Spark, SQL for BI-related data wrangling or integration

• Familiarity with Agile / DevOps delivery models and tools (JIRA, Confluence, Git)

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