Chief Data Officer

We are seeking a highly skilled professional to join our Data Management team in Mumbai. This role is a hybrid position that requires at least three days of office work per week.

This is an exceptional opportunity for a visionary leader to establish and lead a brand-new Data Team with significant responsibilities supporting our business in all critical processes. The ideal candidate will be a tech-savvy individual who can blend people, process, and technology to deliver high-impact solutions directly driving business value. The position will partner closely with the Global Head of Data and the Global Data Team, enabling day-to-day operational excellence while innovating to meet evolving needs.

1. Strategic Leadership:

• Establish and lead a high-performing Data Team from scratch, instilling a culture of accountability and excellence.
• Develop and execute a data strategy aligning with business priorities and delivering measurable impact.
• Serve as a trusted partner working with the Global Data Team, senior business leaders, anticipating needs, and proactively offering solutions.

• Design and deliver pragmatic, scalable solutions leveraging a balanced mix of people, processes, and technology.
• Collaborate with technology teams to build both tactical and strategic solutions ranging from quick-win tools to enterprise-scale platforms.
• Oversee data pipelines, sourcing, and management for investment advisory and OCIO business areas, ensuring timely, accurate, and high-quality data delivery.
• Introduce and oversee a lightweight development capability to quickly design and deploy targeted end-user solutions using low-code, no-code, and scripting tools.

• Design, implement, and mature core data management practices across governance, quality, lineage, metadata, and stewardship.
• Establish policies, standards, and controls to ensure data is accurate, consistent, and fit for purpose across the investment lifecycle.
• Implement data quality monitoring and remediation processes, ensuring issues are proactively identified and addressed.

• Act as the voice of the data team, effectively communicating the team's value and impact to business leaders.
• Present data-driven recommendations to influence strategic decisions.

• 12+ years of experience in Information Systems Management or a related discipline with a focus on domain (Investment Banking/Asset Management).
• Familiarity with designing data models and defining data architecture schema for Investment Banking or Asset Management purposes.
• Proficiency in data processing and working with data warehouse/big data environments relevant to Investment Banking or Asset Management.
• Excellent skillset in Reference Database Management System (RDBMS) to ingest, maintain, and distribute data for Equity, Fixed Income, Alternatives, and other Asset Classes.
• Proficiency in project management tools such as Jira Kanban and Confluence or similar tools.
• Experience in business process improvement, including conducting data investigations to determine the root cause of data issues.
• Familiarity with ETL tools for efficiently and accurately importing new data from various external/internal sources, as well as data sourcing and data mapping specifically to Investment data.
• Good analytical and technical abilities to spot anomalies and create processes to put control on them.
• Good communication skills to ensure issues are clearly identified and explained to various interested stakeholders.
• Ability to work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary and global teams to ensure goals are met.

• Professional development opportunities and interesting work.
• A vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients, and communities.
• A range of career opportunities, benefits, and rewards to enhance your well-being.