Director, Data Strategy and Transformation

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

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field. Master's 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.

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