Data Product Management Lead Director

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 108,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Pension provision

Private medical & life insurance

Job summary

SMBC Group is seeking a Data Products Delivery and Governance Lead for the EMEA region. You will shape how data products are delivered, ensuring business alignment, value delivery and strong governance across the bank. The role works with IT and business functions to prioritise work and establish clear reporting lines.

You will drive the data product operating model, promote data quality and transparency, and support a culture of openness and innovation across a matrixed organisation.

Qualifications

• Essential: Proven experience of driving data products with the business
• Essential: Strong communication skills across business, data and technology
• Essential: Experience in data delivery / programme delivery
• Essential: Understanding of data product operating models
• Essential: Knowledge of data quality, metadata, lineage and control frameworks
• Essential: Experience in complex, matrixed organisations
• Essential: Ability to translate technical concepts into business outcomes

Responsibilities

• Lead the data products delivery vision and governance
• Coordinate with EMEA Data Office, IT and business to ensure alignment
• Prioritise work, manage governance, controls and reporting
• Foster adoption of data products and measurable business value

Skills

Data product delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Programme delivery

Data quality

Matrixed organisations

Business-to-technical translation

Job description

SMBC: A trusted partner for the long term

Here at SMBC Group, we want to help you find the next step in your career so read on to discover if this opportunity is the one for you. We like to recognise potential in our people, so we welcome your application even when your experience doesn't perfectly align with the job description. Whilst we'll always strive to be better, we're proud of our inclusive culture, and encourage our applicants and colleagues to be their authentic, unique selves.

Who we are

The EMEA Data Office was established in 2022 within the Operations, Planning and Data Department and is responsible for building out the Bank's data capabilities across all EMEA entities and all datasets.

The Data Office initially concentrated on building foundational governance through improved Data Architecture, Data Management and Data Quality but is ultimately committed to exploiting data more effectively and innovatively across SMBC, to drive new ways of working and improved business outcomes. Our Data Strategy defines a vision for a data-enabled organisation and sets out the strategic outcomes that data must support across the bank. We will continue to evolve the strategy while prioritising key foundational initiatives and business priorities for the next financial year.

We are driving data-led transformation through EMEA as well as aligning to the delivery of global capabilities, and it is a great opportunity to join us on this exciting journey.

Role Summary

The Data Products Delivery and Governance Lead is a new role responsible for setting the vision around how data products are delivered to add value to the organisation. The incumbent will ensure data products are:

• business-aligned
• appropriately prioritised
• delivered effectively
• governed appropriately
• well-documented
• trusted and controlled
• adopted and delivering value.

The role will work closely with colleagues across the EMEA Data Office, IT, and business functions ensuring consistency of delivery and governance, coordinating oversight, controls, and reporting, as well as driving cross-product operating discipline.

This role sits in a new pillar of the Data Office, and therefore there is significant opportunity for this role holder to shape the future of Data Products in EMEA.

The candidate must be willing to challenge the status quo in an empathic manner, while helping the wider Data Office team to have an ethos of openness and transparency that will help us nurture real business innovation.

If you want to make a real difference, and not just in one team but across the entire bank, we would love to speak to you.

The anticipated salary range for this role is £108,000 - £162,000 with the final offer determined based on the candidate's skills, experience, role scope, location, and relevant market factors. In addition to base salary, the role may be eligible for a discretionary incentive award and a competitive benefits package, including core benefits such as pension provision.

knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications

Essential:

• Proven experience of driving data products with the business
• Strong communication skills, with ability to engage stakeholders across business, data and technology
• Experience in data delivery / programme delivery
• Understanding of data product operating models
• Good knowledge of data quality, metadata, lineage, and control frameworks
• Experience operating in complex, matrixed organisations
• Ability to translate technical concepts into business-relevant outcomes

Desirable:

• Experience working in regulated frameworks, ideally financial services
• Understanding of AI, data tooling, and analytics ecosystems
• Knowledge of emerging trends and issues within the data landscape

Background

The EMEA Data Office was established in 2022 within the Operations, Planning and Data Department and is responsible for building out the Bank's data capabilities across all EMEA entities and all datasets.

The Data Office initially concentrated on building foundational governance through improved Data Architecture, Data Management and Data Quality but is ultimately committed to exploiting data more effectively and innovatively across SMBC, to drive new ways of working and improved business outcomes. Our Data Strategy defines a vision for a data-enabled organisation and sets out the strategic outcomes that data must support across the bank. We will continue to evolve the strategy while prioritising key foundational initiatives and business priorities for the next financial year.

We are driving data-led transformation through EMEA as well as aligning to the delivery of global capabilities, and it is a great opportunity to join us on this exciting journey.

Competencies

• Customer Focus
• Driving Change
• Driving Results
• Embraces Diversity
• Enterprise Leadership
• Judgement and Decision Making
• Risk Management
• Strategic and Visionary
• Trust and Integrity

What we offer

For all the expertise and experience you bring to help us make a difference, it's only sustainable if we support you to build your career and be your best self so we offer competitive company benefits, centred around promoting positive well-bring and work-life balance. We also believe in fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment, where all team members perspectives and contributions are valued. Initiatives in place which promote a diverse and inclusive culture and healthy work life balance include hybrid working, Sport & Social Clubs and Diversity and Inclusion networks.

As an employee of SMBC you have access to a host of both useful and exciting benefit offerings. See below some of the benefits on offer to you:

• Hybrid and flexible working
• Competitive paid leave days
• Benefits to support your physical wellbeing, including private medical insurance and life and invalidity insurance
• Various policies to support your mental wellbeing, including a robust behavioural health network with counselling and coaching services
• Access a wide range of learning and development opportunities and career progression opportunities
• Ambitious remuneration package

So, if you like a challenge and want to continuously grow and develop in a role where you will be supported along the way by a dynamic and diverse team,

We recognise our role as a bank to support social change and welcome all applications, including those from groups often under-represented in financial services. We value the uniqueness of professional and personal, backgrounds and perspectives as they play a vital role in continuing the sustainable growth of our organisation. We'll ensure reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process are offered due to a disability or long-term condition whenever requested.

We are committed to transparent and equitable pay practices. Compensation is determined using objective criteria, including skills, experience, and role responsibilities, and applied consistently throughout our recruitment processes. We do not request candidates' pay history and are committed to preventing unjustified pay disparities.

About SMBC

A trusted partner for the long term

United by a sense of purpose towards our customers - to be a trusted partner for the long-term - and our universal banking platform in EMEA, we deliver a full suite of corporate finance products and solutions to our customers, including corporate, structured and trade finance, leveraged finance, loan market and treasury products. We can also provide investment banking and advisory services and a range of innovative solutions in global capital markets.

Find out more about what we do and who we are at https://www.smbcgroup.com/emea/careers

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