About the Role
Drive the execution of Allied’s AI and Data Strategy by translating an established foundation into a coordinated, scalable, and results-driven enterprise program. Lead the delivery of data, AI, and technology initiatives, ensuring they are effectively prioritized, governed, and implemented to generate measurable business value. Partner across business, Technology, Cybersecurity, and external partners to advance practical use cases from concept to production, while strengthening data governance, improving adoption, and enabling informed decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Lead the AI and Data Strategy execution from the established foundation.
- Own and maintain the AI and Data Strategy roadmap, priorities, milestones, and delivery plan.
- Coordinate data, AI, automation, and technology innovation initiatives into a single program.
- Track use cases, risks, dependencies, decisions, adoption, and business value.
- Provide clear progress updates and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Strengthen the enterprise data foundation by partnering with the Data Solutions Architect to mature data models, reporting structures, governance standards, and platform direction.
- Identify and help resolve data quality, ownership, access, and lifecycle issues.
- Support practical governance practices that improve confidence in enterprise data.
- Ensure data initiatives are usable, sustainable, and aligned to business needs.
- Deliver practical, governed AI and technology innovation solutions.
- Partner with the Manager, Enterprise Transformation to advance AI use cases, adoption, and business engagement.
- Support the intake, assessment, delivery, and scaling of AI-enabled and automation solutions.
- Help reduce unmanaged or shadow AI by creating clear pathways for approved experimentation and adoption.
- Evaluate new tools and vendors, balancing innovation, security, privacy, and operational fit.
- Create structure for program governance and delivery without unnecessary bureaucracy.
- Define and maintain the operating model for use case intake, prioritization, approval, delivery, measurement, and retirement.
- Clarify roles, accountabilities, and decision points across business, Technology, Cybersecurity, and vendor teams.
- Maintain visibility into intelligent tools, platform access, permissions, and solution lifecycle controls.
- Ensure new solutions are introduced in a controlled, documented, and supportable way.
- Align people around one strategy through team leadership and stakeholder management.
- Lead, coach, and support the Data Solutions Architect and Manager, Technology Transformation.
- Build on completed work and help the team operate as one integrated function.
- Translate technical roadmaps into plain-language business cases, updates, and decisions.
- Manage vendor relationships and hold partners accountable for delivery, quality, timelines, and knowledge transfer.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in data, AI, technology transformation, digital innovation, enterprise platforms, or related roles.
- Experience leading or coordinating data, AI, automation, analytics, or technology-enabled transformation initiatives.
- At least 2 years of people leadership, team lead, or program leadership experience.
- Strong ability to execute an existing strategy, improve it where needed, and move work forward without unnecessary reset.
- Strong practical knowledge of data, including data governance, data quality, access management, reporting, integration, and platform lifecycle concepts.
- Experience working with senior business stakeholders and translating technical work into business outcomes.
- Strong vendor management, communication, prioritization, and delivery management skills.
- Comfort working with Technology, Cybersecurity, business teams, and external partners in a governed enterprise environment.
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Copilot Studio, Azure, or related Microsoft platforms.
- Exposure to Amazon QuickSight, Amazon Bedrock, or related AWS data and AI services.
- Experience with responsible AI, AI governance, data privacy, cybersecurity controls, or enterprise risk management.
- Experience delivering business use cases from concept to pilot to production.
- Experience creating roadmaps, dashboards, intake processes, governance frameworks, or executive status reporting.
- Experience in commercial real estate, property management, operations, finance, or other asset-intensive environments.
- Experience supporting change management, adoption planning, training, and measurement for new technology solutions.
Skills
- Data Strategy
- AI Strategy
- Technology Transformation
- Data Governance
- Data Quality
- Access Management
- Reporting
- Data Integration
- Platform Lifecycle Management
- Vendor Management
- Communication
- Prioritization
- Delivery Management
- Microsoft Fabric
- Power BI
- Microsoft 365
- Copilot
- Copilot Studio
- Azure
- Amazon QuickSight
- Amazon Bedrock
- Responsible AI
- AI Governance
- Data Privacy
- Cybersecurity Controls
- Enterprise Risk Management
- Change Management
- Adoption Planning
- Training
- Measurement
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- In-person
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- 7+ years experience
- 2+ years leadership experience
Salary/Compensations
- $125,000 - $140,000 a year
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus programs
- Retirement savings program
- Vacation
- Six personal days
- Half-days before statutory holidays
- Comprehensive, company-paid health benefits
- Vision and dental coverage
- Healthcare spending account
- Employee assistance program
- Paid volunteer day
About the Company
- Allied is a leading owner-operator of distinctive urban workspace in Canada’s major cities.
- Our work is grounded in a clear purpose: to provide knowledge-based organizations with distinctive urban environments that support creativity, connectivity and human wellness.
- Our vision is more expansive. We seek to make a continuous contribution to cities and culture that elevates and inspires the humanity in all of us.
- Real estate, for us, is not a passive investment. It is a profoundly human endeavour, one that must promote wellness, sustainability, diversity and creativity—today and for generations to come.
- Allied is also a place to build a career of consequence. If you are looking for work that is thoughtful, tangible and enduring—work that contributes meaningfully to cities and the people who inhabit them—you will find purpose here.
Equal Opportunity
- Allied uses technology, including AI-enabled tools, to support administrative efficiency, all screening, assessment and hiring decisions are made by people.
- We are committed to hiring the most qualified candidates with a dedication towards supporting diversity, equity and inclusion across our organization.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, ethnicity, origin, sexual orientation, disability and socioeconomic background.
- Diverse perspectives strengthen our organization and help us deliver better outcomes for our tenants, partners and communities.
- All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.
- We strive to provide an accessible recruitment experience and welcome reasonable accommodation requests at any stage of the recruitment process. Please reach out to talent@alliedreit.com if support is needed.
