
Director - Investments
1 day ago
Director - Investments
Company:Mercer Description:Director – Data Management
We are seeking a talented individual to join our Data Management team at Wealth Investments. This role will be based in Mumbai. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.
We are seeking a dynamic and entrepreneurial leader to establish and lead a brand-new Data Team with a significant mandate to support our business in all critical processes. This role is ideal for a visionary with a tech-first mindset who can blend people, process, and technology to deliver high-impact, pragmatic solutions that directly drive business value. The position will partner closely with the Global Head of Data and the Global Data Team and business stakeholders, enabling day-to-day operational excellence while innovating to meet evolving needs.
The ideal candidate will think and act like a business owner—focusing on ROI, mitigating risks, and ensuring value delivery. They will have deep expertise in the Investment Domain and a proven track record in managing data analysts, implementing robust data management practices, and delivering creative solutions that scale
We will count on you to:
1) Strategic Leadership
- Establish and lead a high-performing Data Team from the ground up, instilling a culture of accountability and excellence.
- Develop and execute a data strategy that aligns with business priorities and delivers measurable impact.
- Serve as a trusted partner working with the Global Data team, senior business leaders, anticipating needs and proactively offering solutions.
2) Solution Delivery
- 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.
Data Management Excellence
- 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.
Business Partnership & Communication
- 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
What you need to have:
- 12 years of experience in Information Systems Management, or a related discipline with a focus on domain i.e. Investment Banking/Asset Management (Middle Office/Back office).
- 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 identifying process flow mapping and process redesigning specifically for Investment Banking or Asset Management data.
- Proficiency in project management tools such as Jira Kanban and Confluence or similar tool is plus.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 as the role would involve ability to spot anomalies and create processes to put control on them.
- Good communication skills to ensure issues clearly identified and explained to various interested stakeholders.
- Ability to work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary and global teams to ensure goals are met
What makes you stand out?
- Experience and/or familiarity in no-code, low-code solutions and latest AI-based coding tools
- Knowledge and experience gained in implementing financial data solutions such as S&P EDM, Alpha Data Platform, and/or FactSet. Industry qualifications - CFA or CIPM or DAMA
- Demonstrated willingness to support and mentor colleagues
- Demonstrated experience in taking a hands-on approach working closely with the team and colleagues to design, develop and implement data solutions
- Excellent communication skills working closely with colleagues at all levels
- Experience of business process improvement in asset management – for example, performing data investigations to determine root cause of data quality issues.
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