Data Product Owner - Wealth Management Reference Data

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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