Director, Data Enablement & Platform Strategy

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.

Job description

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.