Senior Data Product Manager - Lifecycle & Governance

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Scotiabank's Global Wealth Management Data Centre of Excellence is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Product Management. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of data products, collaborating with business stakeholders, technology partners, and data stewards to deliver value and follow the data strategy.

Responsibilities include shaping the roadmap, prioritizing features, and documenting metadata, lineage, and quality controls.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in technology, commerce or related field.
• Strong knowledge of industry standards, trends in data products, data quality, data storage and distribution solutions, data governance, and product ownership.
• Excellent negotiation skills when communicating with business and technical stakeholders and aligning needs, capabilities, and technology.
• Proven experience managing the end-to-end product lifecycle for data-intensive products.
• Strong knowledge of the Wealth Management or Financial Services industry is highly preferred.
• Strong understanding of financial markets data, including securities, equities, fixed income, investment products, and financial instruments, along with their key attributes, classifications, identifiers, and relationships.
• Experience with data management tools and query languages (e.g., SQL, Python).
• Familiarity with data analytics and visualization tools (Power BI, Looker).
• Knowledge of modern data platforms and cloud environments (e.g., GCP, Azure, Databricks) is an asset.
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Strong ability to explain complex data concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Creative, self-starting, and results-oriented with a strong ability to solve complex problems.
• Proven ability to balance strategic vision with practical, hands-on execution.

Responsibilities

• Manage the entire data product lifecycle from ideation, through development and testing, to launch, and iteration.
• Contribute to the data product roadmap, prioritize features, and define product requirements based on business needs and user feedback.
• Champion data governance and ensure data products adhere to all policies, standards, and quality metrics.
• Work with Data Stewards to define and document metadata, data lineage, and quality controls for data products.
• Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for data products, including usage, quality, and business value.
• Collaborate with business lines, technology teams, and the Chief Data Office (CDO) to ensure alignment on data strategies, standards, and governance.
• Act as a key liaison between technical teams and business users to translate business needs into technical requirements and vice versa.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration to ensure efficient data access and management.
• Identify new opportunities to create business value through the development of innovative data products.
• Support the strategic, use-case-based approach to growing data product capabilities and maturing GWM's data practice.

Skills

Data product lifecycle

Stakeholder management

Data governance

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Financial services domain knowledge

Education

Undergraduate degree in technology, commerce or related field

Tools

SQL

Python

Power BI

Looker

Databricks

Cloud platforms (GCP/Azure)

Job description

Scotiabank's Global Wealth Management Data Centre of Excellence is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Product Management. You will own the end-to-end lifecycle of data products, collaborating with business stakeholders, technology partners, and data stewards to deliver value and follow the data strategy.

Responsibilities include shaping the roadmap, prioritizing features, and documenting metadata, lineage, and quality controls.