At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive enterprise data strategy and governance for large organizations while leading transformation programs.
- Company: Electric Mind, a fast-growing AI-native advisory and digital engineering firm.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, mentorship opportunities, and a culture that values innovation and diversity.
- Other info: Join a dynamic team where your ideas matter and career growth is accelerated.
- Why this job: Shape technology strategy for industry leaders and influence the future of engineering.
- Qualifications: 15+ years in data architecture, governance, or strategy with strong consulting skills.
The predicted salary is between 135000 - 165000 $ per year.
At Electric Mind, Engineering is where strategy meets action. Our team helps organizations cut through complexity - aligning business ambition with technology execution to unlock real, lasting change. You'll work alongside curious, driven people tackling high-impact challenges for everyone from scaling startups to global enterprises. Each engagement is different, pushing you to learn, adapt, and grow. Electric Mind's Technology Practice brings together deep engineering expertise, modern delivery disciplines, and pragmatic architectural thinking to help clients execute complex, mission-critical transformation. We design and implement scalable, secure, high-impact technology solutions that accelerate business outcomes.
Role Overview
We are seeking a senior hands-on leader to drive enterprise data strategy, architecture, and governance initiatives for large organizations. This role combines strategic advisory with implementation leadership and requires strong communication skills, deep architecture knowledge, and real-world governance execution experience.
What You'll Do
- Strategy & Advisory
- Assess and define enterprise data strategies and roadmaps
- Conduct executive workshops and stakeholder alignment
- Design AI-ready data operating models
- Understand, align and translate business objectives into data capabilities
- Data Governance Leadership
- Conduct data governance maturity assessments
- Design governance frameworks
- Data ownership and stewardship models
- Data quality management
- Metadata and lineage strategies
- Policy-as-code approaches
- Architecture
- Develop enterprise cloud data architectures
- Lakehouse architectures
- Data Mesh / Data Products
- Event-driven architectures
- Align architecture with strategy, governance and security models
- Delivery Leadership
- Lead enterprise transformation programs
- Guide technical teams
- Define reusable methodologies and accelerators
What You'll Bring
- 15+ years in data architecture, governance, or strategy
- Experience implementing governance programs at scale
- Strong consulting and communication skills
- Experience with modern cloud data platforms
- Demonstrated architecture design experience
- BFSI domain experience
- Exposure to tools such as Collibra, Alation, Purview, Informatica, Snowflake Horizon, Databricks Unity Catalog
- Knowledge graph or semantic modeling experience
What You'll Gain
You will help shape enterprise technology strategy for industry-leading clients while influencing the growth of Electric Mind's engineering culture. You will work on high-impact, high-visibility programs and help mentor the next generation of technical leaders.
Electric Mind is committed to diversity in the workplace. We are an inclusive employer and welcome and encourage applications from all qualified candidates. Applicants' needs will be accommodated during our recruitment and selection process so please advise us if you require accommodation.
Data Strategy, Advisory & Architecture – Associate Director in Toronto employer: Electric-Mind
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