Data Strategy, Advisory & Architecture - Associate Director
Medium, California, MD, United States
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.
$170,000 - $220,000 a year
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.
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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.
$170,000 - $220,000 a year
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.
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