Director, Data Strategy and Transformation | Singapore, SG | Hybrid

Charterhouse Partnership Singapore; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in recruitment seeks a seasoned Director of Data Strategy and Transformation in Singapore. The ideal candidate will drive the enterprise-wide data strategy, ensuring alignment with governance frameworks and supporting business needs across the region. Success in this role demands extensive experience in data architecture, management, and collaboration with business stakeholders to enable data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• Over 15 years in data architecture or management, ideally in financial services.
• Deep expertise in logical and physical data modelling for banking.
• Proficient in data modelling tools and techniques.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement the data strategy aligned with business objectives.
• Design scalable data architectures for unified enterprise data lakes.
• Ensure data models adhere to governance and quality standards.

Skills

Data governance

Data modelling

Metadata management

Data integration

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Erwin

PowerDesigner

Job description

Director, Data Strategy and Transformation

Director, Data Strategy and Transformation

Charterhouse Partnership Singapore Singapore Apply now Posted 2 days ago Hybrid Job Permanent S$12k - S$16k

Seeking a seasoned Director, Data Strategy & Transformation, responsible for defining and executing the enterprise-wide data strategy, ensuring seamless integration between data lake & data marts to support business needs across APAC.

Responsibilities
· Define, implement the data strategy, ensuring alignment with global data governance frameworks and business objectives.
· Partner with business stakeholders & technology to gather data requirements specific to banking products, transactions, customers, reporting and analytics.
· Design scalable data architectures, enabling efficient data integration from multiple regional sources into a unified enterprise data lake.
· Design and maintain logical and physical data models that reflect core banking operations, risk management, compliance, financial reporting / analytics needs.
· Translate complex business use cases into normalized and de-normalized data structures optimized for both operational and analytical workloads.
· Collaborate with development teams on physical data model deployment and performance optimization for large financial datasets.
· Ensure data models adhere to data governance, data quality, and metadata management standards across banking domains.
· Contribute to data integration strategies to enable seamless access to core banking systems, regulatory systems, and analytical platforms.

Requirements
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.
· Over 15 years of experience in data architecture, data modelling, or data management, preferably in the banking or financial services industry. (Must have)
· Deep knowledge of data governance (DAMA-DMBOK), data modelling, and metadata management.
· Deep expertise in logical and physical data modelling for core banking, risk, compliance, and financial reporting domains and various analytics use cases.
· Proficient in data modelling tools (e.g., Erwin, PowerDesigner, or similar).
· Solid understanding of relational and dimensional modelling, data warehousing, and data integration techniques.


If you hold experience in driving Data Strategy & Transformation, within financial services technology, do reach me at [e-mail] for a discussion.

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Charterhouse was formed in 2003 in Australia and it has established itself as a reputed recruitment specialist in its industry. With footprints in Asia, Australasia and the Middle East, we offer professional and bespoke contingency and retained search services across a variety of industrial sectors.

For more information on how we can help you, give us a call for a confidential discussion at(65) 6435 5600 .

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