Data Manager

**Data Manager**:

- Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, CA, B3B 1E6 Victoria, British Columbia, CA, V8Z 0B9 Ottawa, ON, CA, K1P 5E7- Onsite or Hybrid:
**Data Manager (Permanent)**

**Halifax, NS / Ottawa, ON / Victoria, BC**

Underpinned by a deep understanding of technology integration, asset management, and specialist training, Babcock International works with customers around the world to improve the capability, reliability, and availability of their most critical assets within the key market sectors of Marine, Land, Aviation, and Nuclear.

In Canada, Babcock works in the Marine sector, where our teams provide critical and complex support to Canada’s submarine fleet. Our Canadian team is proud to be trusted to deliver key naval in-service support for the Royal Canadian Navy. We also operate in the Aviation sector, where Babcock ensures that the aircrew trainees of our partner nations receive the world’s best flying training. We deliver vital aerial emergency services and are proud to have been selected by the Government of Manitoba to deliver their wildfire suppression services, as well as key components of their critical air ambulance services.

Whether it is providing technical training instruction, developing training materials or maintaining critical training assets, Babcock is trusted by its customers to deliver world-class training solutions.

Babcock’s Purpose is to **create a safe and secure world, together**. Our Principles create the foundation for how we will do this. They keep us on the right course, unify the way we work and guide us towards success. By thinking, connecting, and acting in line with these Principles, we’ll deliver better outcomes for our Culture, Customers and Communities. Collectively at Babcock, our employees embody the Principles that help make us great at what we do:

- Challenge the status quo, **Be Curious**, and ask, ‘how might we?’
- Whenever measuring success, **Think: Outcomes** and positive impacts.
- **Be Kind** to ourselves, each other, and our planet.
- Babcock employees **Collaborate** - we are greater than the sum of our parts,
- **Be Courageous** - be brave, ambitious, and determined.
- Everyone has a part to play -** Own** and **Deliver** to be successful.
- In this role, you will: _
- Operate at an Enterprise Level to develop a company wide data strategy.
- Work with Configuration Management (CM) group and Enterprise stakeholders to provide effective data management solutions.
- Examine existing data pools and assess how that data is used in order to propose effective improvement to both.
- Support Configuration Management and other Enterprise stakeholders in championing beneficial change.
- Propose improvements to existing Configuration Management (CM) and Data Management (DM) procedures based on lessons-learned from own experiences.
- Work directly with enterprise stakeholders to ensure the required interface support is in place to meet program obligations.
- Update existing Configuration Management (CM) & Data Management (DM) processes to comply with standards, as required.
- Define a vision statement and guiding principles for company-wide data management and determine an implementation strategy.
- Operationalize the data strategy plan through defined goals and processes.
- Post-secondary education credentials in a software-focused technical field.
- 8+ years’ experience with complex data management solutions.
- A demonstrable understanding of data management processes and their importance in managing configurations effectively.
- Excellent organizational skills and an ability to work effectively within a team environment and individually.
- Experience in developing modern data-management solutions.
- A proven ability to assess existing data repositories and architecture against work-processes and propose changes that will bring improvements in efficiency, accessibility, and security in regard to the data.
- Demonstrated ability to work with Enterprise stakeholders for needs-capture and translate those needs into requirements on data architecture.
- A proven ability to work within Configuration Management to ensure solutions will allow for effective baselining and change control.
- An ability to work with IT to define and then deploy agreed solutions.
- Experience with ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 32 Data Management and Interchange would be an asset.
- Previous experience with data management for complex platforms with extended life cycles (e.g. ship, aircraft) would be an asset.
- Excellent written and communication skills.
- Proof that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, meaning that you must have received the full series of a COVID-19 vaccine approved by the Government of Canada with the final dose at least 14 days prior to your start date as well as any COVID boosters recommended by public health authorities
- You are eligible for a Canadian Secret Security and ITAR Clearance

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