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.
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Department: Global Data & Analytics
Location: Cyber Hub, Gurugram, Haryana (5 days in office)
Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time (40 Hours)
Reports To: Director of Global Analytics & Data Science
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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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