Senior Vice President, Data Product Architect

About the role

The Senior Vice President, Business Data Architect role is based in New York, NY. The role involves turning the Reference Data strategy into practical business architecture, operating models, and engineering-ready requirements, focusing on relationships among Client, Party, Legal Entity, Contract, Product, Service, Enterprise Account, domain accounts, and investment structures.

Responsibilities

• Define conceptual and logical models for Party, Client, Legal Entity, Account, Contract, Product, Service, Instrument and related hierarchies.
• Model complex legal, commercial, servicing and operational relationships across Asset Servicing.
• Define enterprise identifier, cross-reference, entity-resolution, hierarchy and effective-dating patterns.
• Translate business outcomes and representative scenarios into testable rules and requirements.
• Define authoritative-source, registry and Reference Data distribution patterns.
• Define how Reference Data is requested, created, matched, approved, enriched, changed, linked and retired.
• Establish ownership and decision rights across Product, Operations, Data, UCM, CRM and servicing platforms.
• Design match, resolve or create rules, including stewardship, controls, exceptions and escalation.
• Develop reusable transition and adoption patterns for additional business domains.
• Use SQL and data profiling to validate relationships, hierarchies, business rules and data-quality assumptions.
• Analyze duplicate, incomplete and conflicting identifiers and trace representative records across systems.
• Develop lightweight prototypes to test architecture hypotheses and accelerate decisions.
• Translate the architecture into functional requirements, mappings, acceptance criteria and controls.
• Partner with Engineering on options, dependencies, sequencing and implementation trade-offs.

Requirements

• Significant experience in Reference Data, Master Data, Business Data Architecture or Information Architecture.
• Demonstrated experience designing complex party, client, account or relationship models.
• Experience defining authoritative-source and lifecycle-management models, global identifiers, entity resolution, golden-record or registry patterns.
• Experience translating business scenarios into engineering-ready requirements.
• Experience partnering directly with Product, Operations, Architecture and Engineering.
• Strong conceptual, logical, hierarchy, relationship and effective-dated modeling skills.
• Experience designing Reference Data lifecycle, stewardship, data-quality and control processes.
• Strong SQL and hands-on data-profiling capabilities.
• Ability to connect business outcomes, operating processes, data models and engineering requirements.
• Ability to lead focused design sessions, influence without authority and move stakeholders toward decisions.
• Pragmatic judgment and the ability to distinguish working hypotheses from approved decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required.
• 10-12 years of related experience in data management services required; experience in Asset Servicing, Fund Accounting, Custody, Middle Office, Transfer Agency, Wealth Management or Capital Markets preferred.

Skills

• Significant experience in Reference Data, Master Data, Business Data Architecture or Information Architecture.
• Demonstrated experience designing complex party, client, account or relationship models.
• Experience defining authoritative-source and lifecycle-management models, global identifiers, entity resolution, golden-record or registry patterns.
• Experience translating business scenarios into engineering-ready requirements.
• Experience partnering directly with Product, Operations, Architecture and Engineering.
• Strong conceptual, logical, hierarchy, relationship and effective-dated modeling skills.
• Experience designing Reference Data lifecycle, stewardship, data-quality and control processes.
• Strong SQL and hands-on data-profiling capabilities.
• Ability to connect business outcomes, operating processes, data models and engineering requirements.
• Ability to lead focused design sessions, influence without authority and move stakeholders toward decisions.
• Pragmatic judgment and the ability to distinguish working hypotheses from approved decisions.

Benefits

Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, the employee will be in an “at will” position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payments or compensation programs) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors. Base salary is only part of the total rewards package, which may include eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan as well as participate in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents. Eligible employees also may receive other benefits (including various paid time off benefits, such as vacation and sick time).

Pay

The expected base salary for this position when employment commences can be found in the Job Info section at the bottom of the posting. Base salary offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Schedule

The Senior Vice President, Business Data Architect role is full-time and based in New York, NY.