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# Data Strategy, Advisory & Architecture - Associate Director at Electric Mind

- **Company:** Electric Mind
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Compensation:** $170k–$220k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/electricmind/02d90927-3957-4811-8404-2b8dc1048018

## Job description

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.

## About Electric Mind

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Electric Mind is an engineering-first consulting firm that helps enterprises design and implement AI transformation, from strategy through production delivery.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Private Equity-backed)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- **Founded**: 1990 (originally as Intelliware, rebranded to Electric Mind in 2024)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (founded by a small team of software engineers)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Business Consulting and Services, Technology Consulting, AI Transformation
- Target customers: Financial services, healthcare, and technology enterprises; also serves start-ups and global organizations
- Mission or purpose statement: "Energized by diversity and delivered through connectivity, we transform challenges into practical, actionable results."

## Products & Services
- **Strategy Consulting**: Advisory practice that helps clients establish practical, implementable strategies "shift left" to guide strategy and design change programs.
- **Design Services**: Business, product, and solutions design to define experiences, products, and delivery systems aligned to business strategy and grounded in technology feasibility.
- **Engineering Delivery**: Custom software development and platform delivery, with deep expertise in agile methodologies (Scrum, Extreme Programming) and AI-era engineering.
- **AI Enablement**: AI transformation services including strategy, design, and production delivery for enterprise clients.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $20M (estimated); Total Funding of $100M (Private Equity round led by Motive Partners, November 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Motive Partners (lead investor in $100M PE round)
- **Growth Signals**: 33.8% headcount growth year-over-year; opened first U.S. office in Chicago in 2024; workforce distributed across 6 countries (Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, India, Portugal)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Engineering-First DNA**: Founded in 1990 as a custom software development shop with decades of engineering delivery experience, especially in financial services and complex enterprise environments.
- **Agile Pioneers**: Early adopters of agile methodologies (Scrum, XP) since 2000, with deep expertise in iterative development and platform delivery.
- **Full-Stack Consulting**: Unique ability to span strategy, design, and engineering—allowing seamless transition from strategic vision to production implementation.
- **AI Era Positioning**: Explicitly built for the AI era, combining decades of engineering credibility with modern AI transformation capabilities.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Transformation**: Helping enterprises design and implement AI-driven change, from strategy through production.
- **Geographic Expansion**: Growing presence in the U.S. following the 2024 Chicago office opening.
- **Advisory Growth**: Scaling advisory practice to "shift left" and engage earlier in client transformation programs.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Active hiring across technical and consulting roles, with strong recruiting from top financial and consulting firms (RBC, Scotiabank, Capco, Deloitte, TD).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Rated 4.0/5.0 on employer review sites (47 reviews). Culture rated 4.4/5.0, Work-Life Balance rated 4.3/5.0.
- **Flexibility**: Hybrid work model with office in downtown Toronto. Flexible working hours offered to maintain work-life balance.
- **Learning**: Dedicated time and budget for self-driven and company-hosted training, R&D, and knowledge sharing (Centers of Excellence, hands-on labs, lunch-and-learns, research weeks, hackathons).
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive health and dental plans, mental health support, Employee & Family Assistance Program, parental leave top-up, short- and long-term disability, life insurance.
- **Environment**: Office designed for collaboration with snacks, comfortable seating, secure bike storage, lockers, and showers for active commuters.
- **DE&I**: Committed to diversity in the workplace; actively supports underrepresented groups within the Toronto tech community.
- **Team Dynamic**: Open, honest, cooperative environment with shared ownership and cohesive, cross-functional teams. Work with business, technical, and subject matter experts on varied projects across industries.
- **Current Openings** (as of search date): Technical Director, Azure & Dynamics 365 Developer, Senior Consultant, Controller, Advisory Consultant, Consultant.

## Sources
1. [electricmind.com](https://www.electricmind.com/about-us)
2. [electricmind.com](https://www.electricmind.com/life-as-a-mindster)
3. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/electricmind)
4. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/electricmind)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/electric-mind)

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