Seeking a seasoned Director, Data Strategy & Transformation, responsible for defining and executing the enterprise-wide data strategy, ensuring seamless integration between data lake & data marts to support business needs across APAC.
Responsibilities
- Define, implement the data strategy, ensuring alignment with global data governance frameworks and business objectives.
- Partner with business stakeholders & technology to gather data requirements specific to banking products, transactions, customers, reporting and analytics.
- Design scalable data architectures, enabling efficient data integration from multiple regional sources into a unified enterprise data lake.
- Design and maintain logical and physical data models that reflect core banking operations, risk management, compliance, financial reporting / analytics needs.
- Translate complex business use cases into normalized and de-normalized data structures optimized for both operational and analytical workloads.
- Collaborate with development teams on physical data model deployment and performance optimization for large financial datasets.
- Ensure data models adhere to data governance, data quality, and metadata management standards across banking domains.
- Contribute to data integration strategies to enable seamless access to core banking systems, regulatory systems, and analytical platforms.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field. Masters degree preferred.
- Over 15 years of experience in data architecture, data modelling, or data management, preferably in the banking or financial services industry. (Must have)
- Deep knowledge of data governance (DAMA-DMBOK), data modelling, and metadata management.
- Deep expertise in logical and physical data modelling for core banking, risk, compliance, and financial reporting domains and various analytics use cases.
- Proficient in data modelling tools (e.g., Erwin, PowerDesigner, or similar).
- Solid understanding of relational and dimensional modelling, data warehousing, and data integration techniques.
If you hold experience in driving Data Strategy & Transformation, within financial services technology, do reach me at [Confidential Information] for a discussion.
EA License no: 16S8066 | Reg no.: R1657935
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