Remote Data Strategy Lead for AI-Driven Banking

Curinos; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Unlimited PTO

DEI program

Learning and development tools

Job summary

Curinos is seeking a Head of Data Strategy to lead the enterprise data strategy and governance for the Curinos One platform. You will drive data acquisition, federation, and partnerships across banking data assets, ensuring privacy and regulatory compliance.

You will mentor teams, align data initiatives with product roadmaps, and advance AI-enabled decision intelligence for financial services. This is a hybrid/remote US-based role with leadership impact.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data strategy, data architecture, or enterprise data leadership roles.
• Deep experience with cloud data platforms (Databricks, BigQuery, Snowflake) and data engineering patterns.
• Experience identifying, evaluating, negotiating, or scaling strategic data partnerships, preferably involving third‑party data assets.
• Working knowledge of regulatory frameworks such as GLBA, CCPA, GDPR, and banking supervision expectations related to data and model risk.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead Curinos’ enterprise data strategy, spanning acquisition and connection; aligning with business, product, AI, and platform product roadmaps and objectives
• Remove friction from the growth of our data assets by leveraging awareness of data federation, zero‑copy access through the latest data technologies such as Databricks, SnowFlake, BigQuery; Open Banking Data protocols and APIs; and key strategic partnerships
• Establish best practices for data ingestion, normalization, enrichment, and distribution across complex financial services ecosystems
• Partner with Curinos business development and incubation resources to lead a portfolio of strategic data and platform partner opportunities, setting priorities, building executive‑level engagement, and translating partner capabilities into product, AI, and commercial growth opportunities.
• Develop strategic and economic business cases for data partnerships, including data quality, exclusivity, defensibility, integration complexity, regulatory fit, and long‑term product applicability
• Drive strategy for PII management, identity resolution, and data linkage across customer, internal and third‑party datasets
• Engage with customers and partners across banks, fintechs, credit bureaus, payment networks, and data providers to shape data acquisition and integration strategies
• Ensure alignment with regulatory requirements including data privacy, information security, and model risk management frameworks
• Own data governance standards, metadata management, lineage tracking, and data quality frameworks
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to standards such as GLBA, CCPA, and emerging regulatory expectations
• Serve as a thought leader internally and externally on data strategy trends within financial services

Skills

Data strategy

Cloud data platforms

Data governance

PII handling

Regulatory knowledge

AI/ML data requirements

Partnerships

Leadership

Fast-paced environment

Open banking data

Tools

Databricks

BigQuery

Snowflake

APIs

Identity resolution tools

Job description

Curinos is seeking a Head of Data Strategy to lead the enterprise data strategy and governance for the Curinos One platform. You will drive data acquisition, federation, and partnerships across banking data assets, ensuring privacy and regulatory compliance.

You will mentor teams, align data initiatives with product roadmaps, and advance AI-enabled decision intelligence for financial services. This is a hybrid/remote US-based role with leadership impact.