Director, Data Enablement

Scotiabank; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Scotiabank seeks a Director of Data Enablement to define and lead the enterprise data enablement strategy for ingestion and transformation platforms. You will establish onboarding standards, platform usage patterns, governance adoption, and cross-functional engagement to scale trusted data delivery across the enterprise.

The role is highly technical in orientation but focuses on enablement, governance, and stakeholder alignment, with leadership across cloud data ecosystems and data platforms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in enterprise technology, data platforms, cloud data ecosystems, or related leadership roles.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience managing cross-functional teams or platform enablement functions.
• Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise-scale data ingestion, data transformation, analytics, reporting, or data platform modernization.
• Strong understanding of modern data platform concepts including data lakes/lakehouses, medallion architecture, metadata, data quality, lineage, access control, and governed consumption patterns.
• Experience working with Azure, Databricks, Unity Catalog, ADLS, cloud-native data services, orchestration, metadata/cataloging, or similar enterprise data technologies.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across technology, data, security, risk, governance, and business organizations.
• Strong executive communication, structured problem solving, operating model design, and change enablement skills.
• Ability to lead enablement for technical platforms without requiring day-to-day hands-on coding ownership.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise data enablement vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for data ingestion and transformation platforms.
• Establish scalable enablement frameworks for onboarding to enterprise data platforms.
• Create playbooks, intake models, readiness checklists, decision frameworks, and operating procedures.
• Ensure enablement activities align with security, privacy, compliance, architecture, and governance processes.
• Drive alignment between centralized platform teams and federated line-of-business delivery teams.
• Lead enablement across data ingestion, transformation, quality, lineage, observability, and consumption readiness.
• Establish onboarding models for domains, data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML consumers.
• Develop executive reporting on enablement progress, risks, and adoption maturity.

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Title: Director, Data Enablement

Requisition ID: 269936

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Global Banking and Markets
Global Banking and Markets (GBM) is a leading Canadian Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a growing platform in the US and Latin America, operating globally for over 100 years. Scotiabank's strong U.S. presence provides our clients an important bridge to this key global market for trade and investment flows across the Americas and the world.
Global Banking & Markets provides a full range of investment banking, credit and risk management products and services relevant to the financing and strategic development needs of our clients. Our products include debt and equity financing, mergers & acquisitions, corporate banking, institutional equity sales, trading and research, fixed income products, derivatives, energy, foreign exchange and precious & metals. We also cross-sell the full range of wholesale products and services offered by the Scotiabank Group.
Be part of an innovative, Global Capital Markets and Investment Banking business with a unique geographic footprint that puts capital to work for our clients across industries! We work together to drive ambition for every future!

Purpose

The Director, Data Enablement is responsible for defining and leading the enterprise data enablement strategy for the organization’s data ingestion and transformation platforms. This role ensures that enterprise data platforms are understood, adopted, operationalized, and used consistently by business, technology, analytics, and AI teams.

The role is highly technical in orientation but not limited to hands-on engineering. The Director establishes the enablement operating model, onboarding standards, platform usage patterns, governance adoption, and cross-functional engagement needed to scale trusted data delivery across the enterprise.

This role requires strong leadership across enterprise technology, data platforms, cloud data ecosystems, data governance, operational readiness, stakeholder management, and organizational enablement.

What You'll Do

Enterprise Data Enablement Strategy

• Define and execute the enterprise data enablement vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for data ingestion and transformation platforms.
• Establish scalable enablement frameworks that help teams onboard to enterprise data platforms safely, consistently, and efficiently.
• Define standards for platform usage, onboarding readiness, operating guidance, support paths, and capability maturity across domains and business lines.
• Partner with senior technology, data, architecture, security, risk, and business stakeholders to align platform enablement with enterprise priorities.
• Represent the enablement function in executive forums and translate platform capabilities, constraints, and adoption needs into clear business and technology recommendations.

Platform Enablement & Operating Model

• Lead enablement across data ingestion, transformation, curation, medallion-layer workflows, data quality, lineage, observability, access patterns, and consumption readiness.
• Establish repeatable onboarding models for domains, source-system teams, data engineering teams, analytics teams, and AI/ML consumers.
• Create common playbooks, intake models, readiness checklists, decision frameworks, and operating procedures for enterprise data platform usage.
• Ensure enablement activities are integrated with security, privacy, compliance, architecture, support, and operational governance processes.
• Drive alignment between centralized platform teams and federated line-of-business delivery teams.

Enterprise Technology & Data Platform Leadership

• Provide leadership across modern enterprise data ecosystems such as Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, ADLS, cloud-native ingestion services, orchestration tooling, data catalogs, metadata platforms, and enterprise observability capabilities.
• Guide teams on approved patterns for source onboarding, landing zones, bronze/silver/gold data flows, transformation standards, and data product readiness.
• Partner with platform engineering teams to identify usability gaps, support issues, documentation needs, and capability enhancements that improve adoption and operational consistency.
• Ensure platform enablement supports advanced analytics, reporting, AI, machine learning, and enterprise decommissioning objectives.
• Ensure enablement practices reinforce governance-by-design, access controls, data classification, lineage, data quality, operational controls, and auditability.
• Partner with data governance, security, privacy, risk, compliance, and architecture teams to convert policy expectations into practical platform usage guidance.
• Support platform readiness for regulated data workloads by ensuring teams understand required controls, responsibilities, and escalation paths.
• Promote clear separation of responsibilities between platform operations, source-system ownership, data domain ownership, and consuming teams.
• Define enterprise data enablement success measures, adoption metrics, onboarding KPIs, platform utilization indicators, and value-realization reporting.
• Track onboarding progress, adoption barriers, support trends, training effectiveness, platform readiness gaps, and business outcomes enabled by trusted data delivery.
• Develop executive reporting that communicates data enablement progress, risks, capacity needs, and platform adoption maturity.
• Identify repeatable patterns that accelerate data ingestion, transformation, data product creation, analytics delivery, and AI readiness.
• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing data enablement organization with strong enterprise technology and platform fluency.
• Develop the capabilities required to support onboarding, stakeholder engagement, platform documentation, training, operating guidance, and adoption analytics.
• Foster a culture of practical enablement, clear communication, continuous improvement, and accountable execution.
• Manage priorities, staffing, vendor support, and cross-functional dependencies required to scale enterprise data enablement.

What You'll Bring

Required

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise technology, data platforms, cloud data ecosystems, data engineering enablement, platform adoption, digital transformation, or related leadership roles.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience managing cross-functional teams or platform enablement functions.
• Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise-scale data ingestion, data transformation, analytics, reporting, or data platform modernization efforts.
• Strong understanding of modern data platform concepts including data lakes/lakehouses, medallion architecture, metadata, data quality, lineage, access control, and governed consumption patterns.
• Experience working with Azure, Databricks, Unity Catalog, ADLS, cloud-native data services, orchestration, metadata/cataloging, or similar enterprise data technologies.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across technology, data, security, risk, governance, and business organizations.
• Strong executive communication, structured problem solving, operating model design, and change enablement skills.
• Ability to lead enablement for technical platforms without requiring day-to-day hands-on coding ownership.

Preferred

• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated enterprise environment.
• Experience with enterprise data platform migrations, legacy platform decommissioning, or large-scale data modernization programs.
• Experience developing onboarding guides, operating playbooks, standards, training materials, and adoption dashboards.
• Advanced degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Spanish fluency is an asset.

Interested?
If your experience is closely related but doesnt align perfectly with every qualification, you might be the right candidate for this or other roles at Scotiabank!
At Scotiabank, every employee is empowered to reach their fullest potential, respected for who they are and, embraced for their differences. That’s why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture.

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