Data and AI Governance Specialist

About ENMAX

ENMAX is driven by its purpose of lighting the way to a brighter energy future, fostering a workplace where belonging and possibilities thrive. They offer meaningful opportunities, strong collaboration, and a career aligned with individual aspirations, committed to supporting communities and customers.

Role Overview

As the Data and AI Governance Specialist at ENMAX Corporation, you will play a crucial role in advancing enterprise data and AI strategy. This involves leading change and enablement efforts, contributing to governance framework development, establishing data protection standards, and ensuring compliance with AI ethics and regulatory requirements. Your initiatives will directly support ENMAX’s commitment to innovation and operational excellence by building a secure, trusted, and AI-ready data backbone for the organization.

This role enables secure, compliant, and trusted use of enterprise data and AI by operationalizing governance controls and processes across Data and AI platforms, specifically Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. You will implement and continuously improve data classification, protection, retention, risk posture management, and investigation workflows to support responsible data sharing and AI adoption across the organization. This position requires a pragmatic and enablement approach to driving governance practices across structured and unstructured data systems and AI systems.

Major Responsibilities

• Design and enable governance frameworks for unstructured data, supporting emerging AI cases and ensuring adherence to responsible AI and data governance principles, as well as compliance with existing and emerging AI and data privacy regulations.
• Enable AI visibility and protections (recommended policies, AI activity insights, AI-focused risk assessments) and coordinate with stakeholders to reduce oversharing in AI scenarios.
• Lead training efforts and strategic initiatives to foster adoption of new frameworks and capabilities within the enterprise AI strategy, enabling teams to integrate appropriate governance controls into the AI delivery lifecycle.
• Deliver and continuously improve AI enablement services aligned to ENMAX’s AI Strategy, AI Standard, and risk appetite.
• Establish and operate the enterprise AI Agent and AI Solution inventory, including discovery, registration, classification, and lifecycle status management, working with solution owners to assess and mitigate risks.
• Facilitate AI intake and evaluation activities by helping business teams understand AI options, risks, and required governance steps.
• Coordinate AI compliance and risk management activities, including risk tiering, documentation, decision support, and escalation to appropriate governance forums.
• Establish and maintain information protection controls (classification and labeling standards, publishing approaches, insider risk, protection behaviors) using Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels, including integration considerations with cloud apps.
• Run and mature data security posture management (DSPM) by monitoring dashboards, interpreting posture insights, and driving remediation actions to reduce sensitive data exposure across the digital estate.
• Contribute to enterprise governance standards and council effectiveness by producing practical guidance, adoption toolkits, and metrics aligned to the Practice Lead’s mandate as the center-of-enablement for governance.
• Monitor cloud discovery and app governance insights for non-compliant or risky apps; partner with security teams to recommend appropriate governance and remediation actions.
• Deliver data and AI governance training programs for both business and technical stakeholders to promote comprehensive understanding and adherence to data governance standards.

Education & Qualifications

Education Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Data/Analytics, Business, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Relevant certifications such as SC-400 (Information Protection), SC-300/Entra fundamentals, SC-900, or equivalent experience would be considered an asset.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience in data governance, security/compliance operations, risk management, or related roles (including hands-on policy/process implementation).
• 2+ years experience implementing or administering Microsoft Purview capabilities such as Data Governance, Information Protection (sensitivity labels), and Data Lifecycle Management (retention) experiences.
• Knowledge of industry data and AI governance frameworks (e.g., DAMA, EDM Association DCAM, NIST AI RMF etc.).
• Expertise in data privacy regulations, compliance requirements, and risk management.
• Experience with enterprise grade governance programs involving structured and unstructured data.
• Experience supporting data security posture and/or incident workflows, including investigation support and remediation coordination.
• Experience with SaaS security visibility and app governance concepts; exposure to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional stakeholders and produce practical standards, job aids, and operational runbooks aligned to a central enablement function.

Competencies

• Proven communication skills with the ability to translate and present data for senior decision-makers as well as present information at all levels of the organization in a professional manner.
• Data driven with strong analytical skills and the ability to create a clear and concise message from a variety of data sources.
• The ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline driven and constantly changing environment.
• Embraces the competencies and core values of ENMAX Corporation.

The ENMAX Advantage

ENMAX offers competitive compensation including a comprehensive flexible benefits program, non-downtown location that includes great building amenities such as free onsite fitness facility, onsite massage, onsite child care centre (upon availability, offered from their ENMAX Place location), and free parking.

ENMAX Values: Safety, Integrity, Accountability, Service, Teamwork, Agility, Innovation.

Key skills/competency

• Data Governance
• AI Governance
• Microsoft Purview
• Data Protection
• Compliance Management
• Risk Management
• Data Security Posture
• AI Ethics
• Cloud Security
• Stakeholder Collaboration