Sr Director, Enterprise Data and AI Platform

Dayforce is a global human capital management (HCM) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.

Our award-winning Cloud HCM platform offers a unified solution database and continuous calculation engine, driving efficiency, productivity and compliance for the global workforce.

Our brand promise - Makes Work Life Better™ - Reflects our commitment to employees, customers, partners and communities globally.

About the Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Sr. Director, Enterprise Data and AI Platform to define and execute the strategy, architecture, and delivery of Dayforce's enterprise data, AI, and contextual intelligence capabilities. This leader will drive the evolution of our modern data ecosystem, enabling trusted, scalable, and AI-ready data solutions that support business functions across Sales, Marketing, Finance, HR, Customer Success, Support, Services, Legal, and other enterprise organizations.

This role is responsible for architecting and evolving our Enterprise Data Foundation on Microsoft Fabric and Azure, enabling advanced analytics, machine learning, and enterprise reporting. In addition, this leader will architect and build the Enterprise Context Layer—a trusted semantic and knowledge platform that unifies business context, metadata, governance, permissions, and enterprise knowledge to power analytics, intelligent automation, AI agents, and next-generation conversational experiences.

As part of this transformation, the role will lead the strategy and implementation of the Enterprise Agentic AI Platform, enabling employees to interact with enterprise data through secure, AI-powered conversational experiences that complement and, over time, transform traditional dashboards and reporting.

The successful candidate will lead a global organization of data, AI