Supervisor, Enterprise Data Services

Position Details

• Service Area: Corporate Services
• Department: Information Technology
• Work Location: City Hall, 1 Carden Street
• Work Mode: Hybrid
• Job Type and Duration: Permanent, Full Time Vacancy
• Position Availability: 1 existing vacant position
• Affiliation: Non-Union
• Posting Period: October 2, 2026 to November 1, 2026 11:59 p.m.

When you join the City of Guelph, you join a team of over 2000 employees who deliver services the community relies on every day. Together, we are bringing to life Guelph’s vision of an inclusive, connected, and prosperous city where we look after each other and our environment. As a single tier municipality, we offer a variety of occupations and career specialities within our organization. Guided by the goals and objectives of the Future Guelph: Strategic Plan and committed to the Corporate Values of integrity, service, inclusion, wellness and learning, the candidate will aid in the achievement of the Community Vision for an inclusive, connected, prosperous city.

What We Offer

We offer competitive wages and comprehensive benefits to meet the needs of our diverse employees. Many of our positions offer:

• Paid vacation days, increasing with years of service
• Paid personal days;
• Defined benefit pension plan with OMERS, including 100-per-cent employer matching;
• Extended health and dental benefits, including Health Care Spending Account;
• Employee and Family Assistance Program;
• Parental leave top up program;
• Learning and development opportunities including tuition assistance
• Employee recognition programs.

Position Overview

Resumes are being accepted for the position of Supervisor, Enterprise Data Services in the Information Technology department. This leadership position manages the corporate IT data team, provides both strategic and technical oversight for the City’s enterprise data and AI foundation. The successful candidate shall co-chair the Data Governance Steering Committee to implement City’s corporate data governance framework, and deliver the enterprise knowledge structures for seamless consumption by staff and AI-enabled tools. Guided by the goals and objectives of the City of Guelph Corporate Strategic Plan and committed to the Corporate Values of integrity, service, inclusion, wellness and learning, the candidate will aid in the achievement of the Community Vision for an inclusive, connected, prosperous city.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

People & Culture Leadership

• Provide visible, positive leadership to the IT Data team—consisting of Data and AI Engineers, Integration Specialist, and Database Administrator—consistent with the City’s Leadership Charter to cultivate an inclusive, respectful, and motivating work environment.
• Manage formal recruitment, onboarding, training, mentoring, and performance evaluations for team members to foster professional growth and technical excellence.
• Promote and grow the internal Data Community of Practice to increase cross-departmental collaboration and advance city-wide data literacy.
• Lead an inclusive culture by resolving internal conflicts, mediating team disputes, and enforcing collaborative problem-solving.

Strategy, Governance & Policy

• Co-chair the Data Governance and Steering Committee to drive the implementation, execution, and performance tracking of the operationalization plan aligned with the corporate data governance framework
• Define, enforce, and communicate enterprise data policies, management standards, and integration governance mechanisms to continuously improve data quality, regulatory compliance, and overall information readiness for analytics and AI systems.
• Model and govern the corporate data architecture, ensuring clear guardrails are in place to safeguard the integrity, security, and long-term sustainability of integration pipelines, data structures, and associated services.
• Collaborate with the IT Operations team to secure City systems against unauthorized data modifications, destruction, or disclosure.

Metadata Management & Enterprise Data Catalog

• Lead the design, implementation, and governance of Enterprise Data Catalog to ensure data assets are fully discoverable, well-documented, and properly classified across the organization.
• Establish robust metadata management practices, data lineage tracking, and business glossaries to bridge the gap between technical data structures and business operations.
• Govern unstructured data assets (such as corporate documents, records, and media) to ensure they are properly indexed, categorized, and compliant with corporate retention and privacy policies.

Enterprise Integration & Digital Transformation

• Oversee the enterprise integration strategy utilizing the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) iPaaS platform to eliminate data silos and accelerate digital transformation.
• Design, implement, and manage secure connections between disparate cloud (SaaS) and on-premises applications to automate workflows and optimize cross-departmental business processes.
• Lead application and data integration initiatives that bridge operational data with analytical and AI systems, enabling seamless knowledge transformation across the corporation.

Technical Execution & AI Readiness

• Provide strategic leadership for the design, implementation, and evolution of the City's greenfield enterprise data ecosystem, transitioning from legacy environments to modern architectures including data lakehouses (e.g., Microsoft Fabric), vector stores, semantic knowledge layers, and AI-ready data platforms.
• Establish governance frameworks, metadata standards, and knowledge architectures that enable advanced analytics, machine learning, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), AI agents, multi-agent systems, enterprise copilots, and future AI-enabled digital services.
• Optimize corporate data lifecycle initiatives spanning acquisition, storage, management, sharing, and enterprise application integration in strict compliance with data residency requirements, Records Information Management, and data privacy policies.