# Data Strategy, Advisory & Architecture - Associate Director

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

- **Id**: 730746
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/electric-mind-data-strategy-advisory-architecture-associate-director>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Toronto, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-19T19:05:28Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-19
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T21:37:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 83
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1898
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Custom Software Development

## Company

- **Id**: 58136
- **Name**: Electric Mind
- **Domain**: electricmind.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/electric-mind>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.25
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 38
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 170000
- **Max**: 220000
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 154763

## Technologies

- **Alation** — Optional: no
- **Collibra** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **Informatica** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: no
- **Snowflake** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 82

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T09:42:10Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 18
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.639
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 82
- **Expected fill days**: 38
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 154763
- **Is top pay**: no

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