Data Product Manager, Governance & Adoption

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 105,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Scotiabank seeks a Manager, Data Products based in Toronto to drive governance and lifecycle management for data products across GBM. You will partner with stakeholders, engineers, and governance teams to translate requirements into scalable data services and ensure regulatory compliance.

Lead backlog and roadmap execution, monitor data quality and adoption, and maintain documentation while advancing AI-ready data initiatives for enterprise use.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3–5 years of relevant experience, preferably in capital markets, financial services, enterprise data, product management or technology delivery.
• Proven experience defining product strategy, building roadmaps and delivering data, analytics or platform capabilities from concept through adoption.
• Strong understanding of capital markets products, data flows and business processes; experience with regulatory reporting, trade lifecycle, risk, finance or operations data is an asset.
• Mastery / subject matter expertise in data governance leading practices, including data management policies, standards, metadata, lineage, data quality, ownership and certification.
• Demonstrated ability to work with senior business leaders, engineers, architects, data modelers and governance teams to solve complex problems through a collaborative delivery model.
• Strong analytical skills, including comfort with SQL, data profiling, product usage metrics, dashboards and evidence-based prioritization.
• Excellent communication, presentation and storytelling skills, including the ability to engage executive management and translate technical complexity into business value.
• Post-secondary education: Graduate degree or equivalent experience in business, finance, computer science, engineering, data, mathematics or a related discipline.
• Project / product delivery discipline, with the ability to manage diverse priorities, make trade-off decisions and deliver high-quality outcomes in a fast-moving environment.
• Knowledge of AI, machine learning, and generative AI data requirements is advantageous, with experience contributing to the delivery of AI-ready data products that are governed, high quality, and scalable for enterprise use.

Responsibilities

• Support the execution of MOR data product roadmap by coordinating product initiatives and delivering capabilities aligned to business priorities, regulatory obligations, and strategic objectives.
• Partner with business stakeholders, Data Stewards, Data Owners, and technology teams to gather requirements, document use cases, define business rules, and translate data needs into actionable product deliverables.
• Manage the backlog, priorities, and delivery activities for assigned data products, ensuring requirements, dependencies, risks, and milestones are clearly understood and communicated.
• Support the implementation of data governance practices, including metadata management, business glossary development, lineage documentation, data quality monitoring, certification activities, and issue remediation.
• Act as a subject matter expert for MOR data domain, providing guidance on data definitions, sourcing, transformations, usage, and controls.
• Collaborate with data engineers, architects, modelers, and platform teams to support the design, build, testing, and deployment of scalable data products and data services.
• Monitor data quality, service levels, user feedback, and adoption metrics to identify improvement opportunities and enhance the value and reliability of data products.
• Maintain product documentation, including business definitions, data dictionaries, data lineage, requirements, operating procedures, and governance artifacts.
• Support regulatory, audit, risk management, and compliance initiatives by ensuring data products meet applicable control, governance, and reporting requirements.
• Promote adoption and effective use of data products through stakeholder engagement, training, communication, and ongoing support to data consumers.

Skills

Product management

Data governance

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

SQL

Regulatory reporting

Education

Graduate degree or equivalent

Tools

SQL

Job description

Scotiabank seeks a Manager, Data Products based in Toronto to drive governance and lifecycle management for data products across GBM. You will partner with stakeholders, engineers, and governance teams to translate requirements into scalable data services and ensure regulatory compliance.

Lead backlog and roadmap execution, monitor data quality and adoption, and maintain documentation while advancing AI-ready data initiatives for enterprise use.