Director, Digital Platforms and Data

Fengate’s Information Technology team is seeking an experienced Director of Digital Platforms and Data. This role will partner with the business to shape the application portfolio strategy, drive adoption, enable data capabilities, and serve as an IT business partner across all business units.  This role ensures that the firm's software applications and data solutions deliver value to the organization, support growth objectives, and enable innovation.

The Director will collaborate closely with the business units and stakeholders across Private Equity, Infrastructure, Real Estate, and Corporate divisions to align technology with business goals.

This individual will also serve as the primary liaison between the IT department and the Infra/PE/RE/CS functions, with an exciting opportunity to be a strategic consultant and advisor for portfolio companies.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Application Strategy and Portfolio Management

• Support the firm in developing and executing a strategy for software platforms and applications to meet the evolving needs of the business and their objectives, partnering with business units to ensure alignment and collaboration.
• Lead application portfolio management to identify applications to retire, sustain, replace, or optimize, ensuring alignment with business needs and cost efficiency.
• Partner with business units to define, prioritize, and deliver enterprise applications that enhance productivity and enable strategic outcomes.
• Monitor third-party providers and ensure compliance with industry regulations, security standards, and internal policies.

Data Strategy, Management and Enablement

• Support the development of a comprehensive data strategy, ensuring the organization’s data infrastructure and analytics capabilities support business decision-making.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure access to high-quality data for insights, reporting, and analytics.
• Lead the implementation of enterprise data management and governance practices to ensure data quality, consistency, and security across the organization.

Business Partnership and Stakeholder Management

• Act as a trusted IT business partner, collaborating across business units to understand their strategic goals and technology needs.
• Facilitate the gathering of business requirements to inform IT solutions, ensuring that application and data initiatives align with business priorities.

Application Selection and Implementation

• Guide and support the evaluation, selection, implementation and optimization of enterprise applications to ensure value delivery and scalability.
• Oversee implementation projects, ensuring solutions are delivered on time, on budget, and meet stakeholder expectations.

Portfolio Company Support

• Provide technology advisory and consultation to portfolio companies on best practices for application and data management.
• Enable scalable and standardized technology solutions to support portfolio companies' operational and growth strategies.

Innovation and Emerging Technologies

• Drive innovation by staying abreast of emerging technologies, trends, and industry standards in asset management and data analytics.
• Identify opportunities to modernize and streamline the application and data landscape to enhance performance, reduce costs, and enable business growth.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of experience in IT leadership roles with a focus on applications, data, and SaaS platforms.
• Strong experience in alternative asset management and related industries such as private equity, infrastructure, and real estate.
• Demonstrated expertise in application portfolio management, including selection, implementation, and optimization of enterprise applications.
• Experience with industry-specific applications such as Yardi, Argus, DealCloud, and portfolio monitoring/analytics platforms.
• Proven ability to define and execute data strategies, supporting analytics and decision-making capabilities across business units.
• Strong understanding of AI technologies and their strategic applications in asset management
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms like Microsoft Azure and modern application and data platforms and services
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build strong relationships and act as a strategic advisor to business leaders.
• Strong project management skills, with a track record of delivering complex initiatives on time and within budget.
• Proven experience managing third-party vendors, including evaluating vendor performance, negotiating contracts, and ensuring alignment with business objectives and service-level agreements (SLAs).
• Experience with leading discussions, establishing outcomes, and negotiate paths forward with stakeholders. 
• Ability to work collaboratively with senior leadership and key stakeholders in all departments.
• Proficiency in project management and successfully delivering complex initiatives
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills with business stakeholders.

LOCATION

This position will work out of our Oakville or Toronto office and is required to be in office 3 – 4 days a week.

Fengate is an equal opportunity employer, we strive to attract and retain a diverse workforce and are committed to promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in the workplace. It is a core priority at Fengate to create, operate with, and continuously grow and sustain an inclusive culture that respects and connects the diversity of our team, our clients, our partners, and the communities we work in. 

We are committed to providing accommodation for persons with disabilities. If you require accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.

We thank all applicants for their interest in this position; however only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.