Data Product Owner - Wealth Management Reference Data

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Job Title: Data Product Owner - Wealth Management Reference Data

Location: NYC or Fort Mill, SC Hybrid

Duration: 6 Months

Job Description:


Mandatory skills: Hands on Data Analysis, Reference Data for Wealth Management

Role Summary
We are seeking a highly independent Techno Functional Data Product Owner to lead Reference Data, Security Master, and Market Data for Wealth Management. This role spans instrument and issuer/entity data, security lifecycle, identifiers and symbology (CUSIP/ISIN/SEDOL/ticker), pricing and valuations, corporate actions, and market data vendor onboarding and controls. The role requires strong hands-on data analysis, deep understanding of wealth business processes, and the ability to translate requirements into implementation-ready technical deliverables with minimal supervision.
The role operates autonomously, owns outcomes end to end, and partners with trading, portfolio, operations, risk, compliance, and engineering teams to deliver accurate, well-governed reference and market data powering OMS/PMS, performance, risk, reporting, and digital channels.
Key Responsibilities
End-to-End Product Ownership
• Own Reference Data, Security Master, and Market Data requirements end to end
• Independently drive discovery, analysis, documentation, and backlog readiness
• Identify gaps, risks, survivorship conflicts, and data dependencies
• Own delivery outcomes, data quality, timeliness, and lineage
Reference Data, Security Master & Market Data Domain Ownership
• Lead golden-copy requirements across instrument, issuer/entity, pricing, and corporate actions
• Define identifier mapping, symbology cross-references, and de-duplication logic
• Own pricing and valuation sourcing, controls, and tolerance checks
• Establish authoritative SOR and multi-SOR precedence, survivorship, and exception handling
• Ensure data products are reusable across trading, risk, reporting, and digital consumers
Stakeholder Collaboration & Requirement Elicitation
• Partner with business, operations, risk, compliance, vendor management, and technology teams
• Lead conversations on data needs, sourcing, usage, and required controls
• Document and validate requirements, assumptions, decisions, and known unknowns
Data Analysis & Documentation
• Perform hands-on analysis of source systems, vendor feeds, and integrations
• Identify data gaps, overlaps, reuse opportunities, and quality failure patterns
• Produce BRDs and data intake documents, attribute definitions, lineage flows, and NFRs
• Partner with Data Governance and SOR teams on ownership, lineage, and standards
Agile Delivery & Backlog Management
• Act as Product Owner for Agile delivery squads
• Decompose requirements into epics, features, and implementation-ready Jira stories
• Define inputs/outputs, events, schemas, quality rules, and change management
• Own backlog prioritization, refinement, and sprint readiness
Integration, Kafka & API Ownership
• Define delivery patterns using event streaming, APIs, and batch/file as appropriate
• Collaborate on topic strategy, schemas, versioning, replay, and retention
• Ensure scalability, reuse, and alignment to enterprise data standards
Governance, Risk & Controls
• Embed metadata, lineage, auditability, and traceability across data flows
• Define and enforce data quality controls, monitoring, and SLAs
• Partner with compliance and security on entitlements and licensing constraints
• Support auditability of onboarding and data changes
Data Contracts & Standards
• Own canonical data contracts covering definitions, schemas, code sets, and survivorship
• Define versioning and change-management standards
• Maintain accurate and complete BRDs and intake documentation
AI Usage
• Use AI responsibly to improve requirement quality and detect data quality patterns
• Apply sound judgment with regulated, licensed, and sensitive data
Required Skills & Experience
• 8+ years in Financial Services, preferably in Wealth Management data domains
• Strong techno-functional background spanning business, data, and technology
• Hands-on data analysis and field-level validation experience
• Proven ability to write clear, implementation-ready Jira stories
• Working knowledge of event streaming, APIs, batch integrations, schemas, and data quality controls
• Self-starter with strong ownership and accountability mindset

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Benefits :

• Free Healthcare Insurance
• Vision and Dental Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Free Life Insurance
• Sick Time Off

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