Senior Director, Enterprise Architecture Data & AI

Accelerate your success at Colliers.

Why Colliers

As one of Canadas leading commercial real estate services firms we are driven by our mission to accelerate success for our people clients and communities.

A career at Colliers gives you the opportunity to make an impact advance your career and collaborate with top-tier talent. Dont just take our word for it weve been recognized as a top employer on a number of prestigious lists including Best Workplaces in Canada Best Workplaces for Women Best Workplaces with Most Trusted Executive Teams among others.

Accelerate your success at Colliers.

Hybrid Role Toronto Ontario or Vancouver BC

Why Colliers

As one of Canadas leading commercial real estate services firms we are driven by our mission to accelerate success for our people clients and communities. A career at Colliers gives you the opportunity to make an impact advance your career and collaborate with top-tier talent. Dont just take our word for it weve been recognized as a top employer on a number of prestigious lists including 2024s Best Workplaces in Canada Best Workplaces with Most Trusted Executive Teams and Best Workplaces for Inclusion among others.

About the role:

We are hiring a transformational yet pragmatic leader to architect and scale Colliers data-to-AI platform on Google Cloud. This role is central to our digital transformation. You will turn our GCP standardization and Gemini Enterprise initiatives into durable capabilities that deliver trusted data governed GenAI and measurable business impact without accruing technical debt.

As the Senior Director of Data & AI Architecture you will set the multi-year strategy make rigorous architecture decisions and guide cross-functional teams to ship outcomes that executives can trust and frontline teams can use. You will have strategic autonomy executive support and a global team committed to innovation.

• Define own and champion the enterprise data & AI architecture vision and roadmap ensuring direct alignment with strategic business priorities.

• Lead the architectural design of a cloud-native data & AI platform on GCP (BigQuery Vertex AI Pub/Sub Dataflow) incorporating reference patterns for Snowflake Databricks and Kafka where appropriate.

• Establish and govern the financial operations (FinOps) for the platform driving cost-optimization budget predictability and tracking unit economics (e.g. LLM request cost BigQuery slots).

• Accelerate the enterprise adoption of Gemini on Google Cloud by defining the technical architecture for governance usage analytics and secure integration with enterprise data.

• Architect grounded AI patterns (Vertex AI Search RAG) with context caching and cost controls to balance innovation with sustainability.

• Standardize LLMOps practices and responsible AI guardrails aligned to NIST AI RMF and EU AI Act including patterns for automated evaluation red-teaming and jailbreak defenses. Act as a key technical leader within the AI Governance forum shaping policy in partnership with Legal Compliance and Risk.

• Institutionalize the Google Cloud Dataplex Universal Catalog to publish certified data products enforce column-level lineage and automate data quality rules with alerting

• Adopt OpenLineage to capture runtime pipeline lineage from tools like Dataflow and Spark accelerating root-cause and impact analysis.

• Architect a defense-in-depth security posture using VPC Service Controls private ingress/egress and Sensitive Data Protection (DLP) to mitigate data exfiltration risks.

• Apply Confidential Computing (Confidential VMs/GKE) for data-in-use protection during sensitive analytics and ML workloads.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders translating complex strategies into clear outcome-oriented plans.

• Build lead and mentor a high-performing community of practice for architects and engineers across Data Enterprise Architecture and AI/ML functions.

What you bring:

• 1215 years across data architecture engineering and analytics with 3 years in an enterprise leadership role leading large-scale modernization.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Data Science Engineering or a related field.

• A proven track record of delivering governed GenAI and data platform capabilities from strategy through execution.

• Deep hands-on knowledge of GCP data services (BigQuery Vertex AI Dataplex Pub/Sub Dataflow) and multi-cloud awareness (Azure/AWS).

• Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer/Architect TOGAF DAMA CDMP.

• Experience with enterprise enablement admin controls adoption analytics long-context RAG patterns and cost optimization.

• Mastery of Dataplex for creating data products and enforcing column-level lineage supplemented by OpenLineage for runtime analysis.

• Demonstrable expertise in VPC Service Controls DLP Confidential Computing and fine-grained BigQuery security.

• Practical LLMOps experience (TEVV safety filters adversarial testing) and operating AI governance aligned to frameworks like NIST AI RMF or the EU AI Act.

Pursuant to the laws regarding job postings where the position is located in Colliers is disclosing the following information:

Area/Location Specific: Hybrid Toronto ON or Vancouver BC

Approximate Salary Range for Role: $157500 to $175000 CAD.

Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location. The range displayed on this job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all Canada locations. Within the range individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors including job-related skills experience and relevant education or training.

This posting is for an existing vacancy within our organization.

Colliers does not use AI-enabled tools to sort or decline applications. All decisions are made by our talent acquisition team.

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