AI Engineer (Data Scientist)

52257 - Toronto - Regular .

Hiring Salary Range: $110,500.00-143,000.00 / year

Hydro One is proud to be the largest electricity transmission and distribution provider in Ontario, serving nearly 1.5 million customers. We have a long history in the industry with our roots dating back over 110 years to 1906. Since then, we have worked to grow and evolve to meet the changing needs of our customers and communities across Ontario. Today, we’re focused on providing exceptional customer service and ensuring we are building safe communities where we live, work and play.

It’s an exciting time to join the team at Hydro One!

Job Function:

Develop and execute comprehensive data governance strategy to ensure effective data management across organizational domains. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, implement data driven solutions, and promote adoption of governance tools and best practices through training and consultation. Provide leadership in establishing stewardship roles, governance committees, and KPI frameworks while guiding issue resolution and communicating policies and standards organization-wide.

Job Description:

Planning and Monitoring Data Activities

• Develop, execute and maintain a complete data governance strategy and capabilities to analyze, design, develop, maintain and enhance data for various domains across the organization.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to scope data requirements and build data driven solutions to solve data problems.
• Facilitate, educate and promote the usage and adoption of the data governance tools, processes and procedures among all users via formal training, continual coaching and consulting.
• Manage, support and educate data services staff while promoting growth and excellence of staff.
• Coordinate, establish and define data stewards, owners and creators in the business.
• Coordinate and establish the Data Stewardship Council and other Data Governance Committees to ensure they meet their mandate.
• Guide and facilitate the data issue resolution process in the lines of business.
• Provide leadership on governance best practices for data creation and partner with the line of business to evaluate KPI measurement needs.
• Communicate the data strategy, policy, standards, procedures (Framework) to Hydro One.
• Enforce compliance with internal data governance policies and procedures.

Improve Data Quality

• Measure data quality for the most important business data.
• Define data quality metrics and provide ongoing reporting.
• Define data quality business rules.
• Establish periodic monitoring of data quality.
• Review business policies to identify data requirements.
• Provide guidance to remedy operational issues, cleanse and correct data quality defects.

Define Important Master and Meta Data.

• Understand master data and meta data requirements.
• With team support, design, develop, and deploy master data repository / environment.
• Develop, deploy meta data repository / environment.

Data Architecture

• Support and collaborate with cross functional teams to define the data structures needed by the business to address data storage needs and the movement of data through business systems.

Data Analytics

• Support and collaborate with team to:
• Define and analyze the information needed for business decisions (including benchmarking).
• Perform fit / gap analysis of decision data.
• Evaluate quality of data, level of accuracy needed and metrics to measure ongoing quality.
• With support from change management, manage data analytics training to business to increase understating of data techniques and processes and to ensure adoption of the analytics apps.

Selection Criteria

• 5 - 10 yrs of experience in data governance management roles, leading cross functional team and data stewardship, data modelling, data architecture and master data/metadata management.
• Experience with change management and driving adoption of data practices.
• Experience with data governance frameworks and proficiency with data governance tools like Collibra, Informatica, Alation, Talend, or IBM InfoSphere.
• Proficient in data analytics and visualization tools, such as Power BI, Tableau or Looker.
• Strong strategic thinking skills. #Effective communication and training skills.
• Strong problem-solving abilities, especially in resolving data quality or governance issues.
• Ability to align data initiatives with business objectives.
• Ability to coordinate with multiple departments and manage interdepartmental collaboration.

Education:

• Undergraduate university degree in a related field such as Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, or Business Administration.

At Hydro One we understand that the success and strength of our business rests with our people. When we develop their skills, we are investing in both their success and ours. To secure the best talent, we seek to create a workforce that reflects the diverse populations of the communities where we live and work and to create a culture based on safety, innovation and inclusiveness.

We are honoured to be recognized by Forbes in its list of Canada’s Best Employers for 2026.

Thank you for considering a career with Hydro One, we welcome applications from all qualified candidates. If you are having difficulty using our online application system and you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email [email protected]. Hydro One will provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in the job application process.

Please note this email is only for accommodation requests. Resumes sent to this email address will not be considered.

"Employer of the year 2026"

Deadline: November 16, 2026

The base salary for this role considers a variety of factors, including candidates' knowledge, skills, experience, education, and any applicable collective agreement requirements for union-represented positions. Hydro One provides an extensive offering of programs to promote a culture of safety, wellbeing, inclusivity, and sustainability to enable our employees to be the best version of themselves. For management roles, compensation is based on the principle of pay-for performance compensation philosophy, and the amount of annual adjustments and incentive payments depends on how well you and the company perform (subject to plan terms). We encourage open dialogue about compensation with our Talent Acquisition Team, who can provide more detailed information specific to this role.

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