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. Scotiabanks 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 organizations 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 Youll 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.

Governance Risk & Controls Enablement

• 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.

Adoption Value Realization & Metrics

• 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.

Team Leadership & Talent Development

• 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 Youll 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 we do encourage you to apply - 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. Thats why we work to grow and diversify talent and engage employees in a performance-oriented culture.

Whats in it for you

Scotiabank wants you to be able to bring your best self to work and life every day. With a focus on holistic well-being our many flexible benefit programs are designed to help support your unique family financial physical mental and social health needs.

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Location(s): United States : Texas : Dallas

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