AI Data Lead

You know those big cities that still feel like small towns? Where everyone’s friendly and helps each other out? That’s like Doane Grant Thornton. Except here we’re all professionals and there isn’t a mayor or a general store. What we’re trying to say is that we’re a large and growing professional services firm that still feels like a community. We employ about 3000 people across Canada, and we truly care about our colleagues, our clients and the communities where we work and live. That’s what’s most important to us. We’re building a thriving organization that’s purpose driven and still want to remember what your favourite milkshake flavour is.

The AI Data Lead is a senior hands-on technical leader responsible for designing, building, governing, and evolving the firm's modern data and AI platform. This role combines deep expertise in Microsoft data engineering technologies with practical experience implementing AI-enabled solutions that deliver measurable business value.

This role will be responsible for establishing the foundational data capabilities required for successful AI implementation. The AI Data Lead will help define and execute the firm's data strategy, ensuring enterprise data is discoverable, governed, centralized, protected, and AI-ready.

Working across a diverse landscape of business systems, applications, and repositories, the AI Data Lead will lead efforts to identify, catalog, classify, cleanse, integrate, and govern data assets while enabling secure access to information for analytics, automation, Copilot, AI agents, and future AI initiatives.

This role is ideal for a highly technical professional who enjoys being hands-on with data engineering, architecture, governance, and AI implementation while influencing the organization's long-term data and AI strategy.