Data Tower Lead – Asset Management

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Data Tower within enterprise-wide EDO transformation programs.
• Define and execute data strategy, roadmap, and governance aligned with business objectives.
• Manage cross-functional teams across data engineering, analytics, governance, and cloud platforms.
• Drive program planning, delivery execution, resource management, and stakeholder engagement.
• Establish KPIs, SLAs, risk management, and reporting frameworks.
• Lead modern data platform initiatives using Databricks, dbt, Azure, and AWS.
• Define scalable architecture patterns for ETL/ELT, batch, streaming, and analytics workloads.
• Drive Asset Management data capabilities across portfolio, trading, risk, compliance, and reporting functions.
• Ensure delivery of high-quality data pipelines with automation, testing, CI/CD, and observability.
• Optimize data platform performance, scalability, and cloud costs.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to deliver trusted enterprise data products.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong experience leading enterprise Data Transformation / EDO Programs
• Hands-on expertise with:
  • Databricks
  • dbt (Data Build Tool)
  • Apache Airflow
  • Cloud Data Platforms
  • Data Engineering Frameworks
• Experience with:
  • Azure Data Services
  • AWS Data Services
  • Modern Data Platforms
  • Data Lakehouse Architecture
  • Data Governance and Data Management
• Strong understanding of:
  • ETL/ELT architectures
  • Data pipelines
  • Data modeling
  • Metadata management
  • Data quality frameworks
  • Cloud security and compliance

Domain Experience

• Must have strong Asset Management industry experience.
• Experience working with investment management data ecosystems including:
  • Portfolio data
  • Market/reference data
  • Trading data
  • Performance analytics
  • Risk and compliance data
  • Client reporting platforms

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Proven experience managing large, complex enterprise transformation programs.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with experience engaging executives and business leaders.
• Ability to lead distributed global teams across technology and business functions.
• Strong communication, influencing, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to balance strategic vision with execution excellence.