Lead Data Product Manager

Lead Data Product Manager

Location: Plano, Texas (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Contract

Contract Duration: 12 Months

Role Overview

The Data Product Manager (Strategy Lead) role is part of a horizontal function supporting all delivery verticals within the ITGPST Data Strategy and Delivery organization. This position defines data domain-level strategies, establishes consistent end-to-end data flow design patterns, and enables data-focused requirements scoping. The role aligns strategic objectives and enforces standards through governance to ensure regulatory compliance and enable reusable design patterns.

Key Responsibilities

• Define data domain/capability strategies, target patterns, and modernization pathways; co-develop and maintain roadmaps with delivery.
• Assess new requests to drive data landscape simplification, modernization, and governance; influence scope and design decisions.
• Lead adoption of target data patterns and co-own business-driven governance to ensure control efficacy and compliance readiness.
• Lead strategic enablers during PI Planning and enforce alignment with enterprise blueprints and standardized data patterns.
• Validate Epic acceptance criteria for strategic and governance fit; advise on design trade-offs, prioritization, and dependency management.
• Serve as the strategy-layer product manager to capture and prioritize client, regulatory, and operational use cases.
• Promote canonical data contracts, shared services, and interoperability across domains.

Required Qualifications

Experience: 10+ years in data, architecture, or product roles, including 5+ years in Payments, Treasury, or banking, with proven delivery in regulated environments.

Skills:

• Global Payments domain expertise: payment rails, clearing/settlement, cross-border flows, correspondent banking, treasury/payments operations, ISO 20022, SWIFT MT/MX.
• Regulatory and reporting knowledge: PSD2/Open Banking, AML/Sanctions (GFCC), NFRR/FRR reporting controls, and audit readiness.
• Data strategy and architecture: canonical data modeling, shared contracts/APIs, event-driven and batch patterns, lineage/metadata, and data quality controls.
• Governance leadership: design-pattern stewardship, control frameworks, and standards enforcement.
• Enterprise alignment: collaboration with Enterprise Architects, blueprint adherence, and pattern libraries (SAFe or similar).
• Product management: roadmap definition, value hypothesis, backlog curation, and Epic/Feature acceptance criteria.
• Portfolio intake and discovery: ability to challenge scope for simplification and modernization.
• Communication and stakeholder management: executive-level storytelling and cross-functional influence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Modern data practices: data mesh/product-based operating models, event streaming (e.g., Kafka), and interoperability standards.
• Cloud and modernization: experience guiding migration to modern platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS), data lakes/warehouses, streaming, and real-time payments integration.
• Certifications: SAFe POPM/Architect, CDMP/DAMA, and cloud certifications (Azure/AWS).

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