Data Strategy, Advisory & Architecture - Associate Director

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! 
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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.