Posted 3 months ago
Data Strategy, Advisory & Architecture - Associate Director
@ Electric Mind
Downtown Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Electric Mind is hiring an Associate Director for its Technology Practice to lead enterprise data strategy, architecture and governance for large organizations. The role combines strategic advisory with hands-on implementation leadership and guiding technical teams through transformation programs.
Pay:
$170,000–$220,000 a year
Responsibilities:
- Define enterprise data strategies and roadmaps
- Design governance frameworks and stewardship models
- Develop enterprise cloud data architectures
- Lead enterprise transformation programs
- Guide technical teams and define reusable accelerators
Requirements summary:
- 15+ years in data architecture, governance or strategy
- Experience implementing governance programs at scale
- Experience with modern cloud data platforms
- Demonstrated architecture design experience
- BFSI domain experience
- Strong consulting and communication skills
Tools & skills
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-08-19
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-09
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Job details
| Seniority | Lead |
| Department | Data & analytics |
| Experience | 15+ years |
| Manages people | Yes |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Work setting | Office, Client sites |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
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Electric Mind
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Full company description
Electric Mind is an engineering-first consulting firm. Built for the AI era, we help enterprises design and implement AI transformation, from strategy through production delivery. Grounded in decades of engineering delivery experience for financial services and complex enterprise. Technology isn't a workstream for us. It's how we think. For more information on Electric Mind visit www.electricmind.com.
- LinkedIn followers
- 16,130
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 283
- Reported office locations
- 200 Adelaide Street West, Suite 100, Toronto, Ontario M5H 1W7, CA
- Business categories
- Consulting
- Data Management
- Software
- Retail
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Other recorded names
- Electric Mind
- Specialties
- Platform migration
- Legacy system analysis and re-design
- Data and processing optimization
- Portals
- Roadmaps
- Technical assessments
- Mobile applications
- Business consulting
- app development
- consulting
- digital
- consulting services
- finance
- operations
- retail
- banking
- agile
- software development
- Advisory services
- AI
- and cybersecurity
- Profile identifies a recruitment agency
- No
- Reported total investment
- 100,000,000
Currency and observation date were not supplied; this is not a current valuation or a funding round.
Electric Mind is an engineering-first consulting firm. Built for the AI era, we help enterprises design and implement AI transformation, from strategy through production delivery. Grounded in decades of engineering delivery experience for financial services and complex enterprise. Technology isn't a workstream for us. It's how we think. For more information on Electric Mind visit www.electricmind.com.
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Business Consulting and Services |
| Company size | 201-500 employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 1990 |
| Specialties | Platform migrationLegacy system analysis and re-designData and processing optimizationPortalsRoadmapsTechnical assessmentsMobile applicationsBusiness consultingapp developmentconsulting |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 13 |
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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.
About Electric Mind
Electric Mind is a fast-growing, AI-native advisory and digital engineering firm built for those who want to shape the future, not just watch it happen. We blend premium strategy expertise with cutting-edge AI-centric engineering to solve complex, meaningful problems for industry-leading clients.
We pride ourselves on a high-touch delivery model and a culture that values diverse talent, innovation, and true client partnership — creating an environment where your ideas matter and your impact is visible.
If you’re looking for a place where you can grow fast, collaborate with exceptional teammates, and help build a company scaling its capabilities and global footprint at speed — Electric Mind is the place to ignite your career. The future is bright!
For more info on Electric Mind, check out our Careers Page and Instagram.
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.
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