JOB SUMMARY
•    The Mercury Programme is a pan-bank, multi-year programme, led by the Group Chief Data Office in partnership with the Group’s Business and Function CDO, COO and 2nd line of defence teams, and focused on ensuring long-term and tangible improvement across all data risk sub-types across all lines of business, functions and geographies. Mercury’s ultimate objective is to sustainably reduce data risk for the bank, aligning with our overall strategy, enabling our business, supporting our clients, and meeting our regulatory requirements. 
•    Mercury will effect this change as the delivery vehicle for the detailed design and execution of the Bank’s Data Management Strategy end-to-end, building central capabilities and end-to-end processes, for prioritised and phased implementation. Capabilities span all aspects of the Data Management Strategy, from our approach to identification and governance of critical data, through to operating model, data architecture and control frameworks, as well as our approach to data sovereignty horizon risk and data literacy. 
•    The programme is highly visible to the PRA, the Group’s Board and Risk Committees, and with Group Management Team Sponsorship. Successful delivery of the programme requires ongoing collaboration with interdependent strategic initiatives, including those within GCFO, Technology & Architecture, FCSO and others. Interlocks with these initiatives, as well as business and function risk treatment plans, will need to carefully managed.

Purpose of the role 
•    We are seeking an experienced product owner for AI Driven Metadata Management to deliver the functional strategy, governance, and adoption of AI-enabled metadata capabilities across the bank as part of the Mercury Programme. This role will ensure metadata is captured, governed, and enriched in a way that supports regulatory compliance, risk management, and enterprise-wide data strategy. 

•    As part of the role, you will be focusing on business alignment, stakeholder engagement, and value realization, rather than hands-on technical implementation. You will collaborate with Risk, Finance, Compliance, Technology, and Data Governance teams to ensure metadata becomes a strategic enabler of transparency, control, and business insights.

RESPONSIBILITIES
Product Strategy & Roadmap
• Define and own the product vision and roadmap for AI-enabled metadata management under the CDO’s enterprise data strategy.
• Align metadata initiatives with CDO objectives: data quality, governance, lineage, regulatory compliance, and data democratization.
• Prioritize features that enhance transparency of Critical Data Elements (CDEs) and Critical Risk Measures (CRMs) across risk and finance reporting.

Functional Leadership
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into functional specifications for metadata platforms and AI-driven solutions.
• Define use cases for AI/ML (e.g., Business term to Physical mapping, automated lineage, duplicate detection) in metadata management.
• Partner with Business and function team to define standards for metadata capture and enrichment.

Stakeholder Engagement
• Serve as the CDO’s point of contact for metadata management with senior stakeholders across the three lines of defense.
• Facilitate workshops to capture regulatory-driven requirements (e.g., BCBS 239 lineage, ownership traceability).
• Promote adoption of metadata practices across business lines, ensuring consistent governance and accountability.

Governance & Compliance
• Ensure metadata practices support BCBS 239, Basel III, GDPR, AML, data privacy, and other regulatory obligations.
• Define KPIs and dashboards to track metadata quality, completeness, and usage.
• Work with internal audit, compliance, and regulators to demonstrate effective metadata governance.

AI Enablement
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI to automate metadata discovery, classification, and control monitoring.
• Collaborate with data science and technology teams to validate AI models for regulatory and audit use cases.
• Monitor market trends and vendor solutions in AI-enabled metadata management, advising the CDO on innovations.

Domain Expertise
• Strong understanding of metadata management (data lineage, cataloging, business glossary, ownership).
• Deep knowledge of regulatory frameworks: BCBS 239, Basel III etc
• Familiarity with Critical Data Elements (CDEs) and Critical Risk Measures (CRMs) frameworks.

Leadership & Communication
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across Risk, Finance, Compliance, and Technology.
• Skilled at translating requirements into metadata use cases.
• Confident communicator with senior executives, auditors etc.

Tools & Frameworks
• Familiarity with metadata management platforms 
• Knowledge of agile product management frameworks (Scrum) and backlog management.

Qualifications

•    Education     Bachelor’s degree in Business, Risk, Finance, Information Systems, or related field (Master’s preferred).
•    Certifications     Project Management accreditation  i.e.– PMI – PMP/ PgMP/ PfMP   (AE / HM to update required certification). 
•    Experience   Overall 10+ years with 7+ years in metadata management, data governance, or risk data aggregation in banking or financial services.
•    Experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or Data Governance Lead within a Chief Data Office or equivalent function.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Project Management
•    Metadata Management Fundamentals
•    AI-Enabled Metadata Capabilities
•    Risk & Issue Management
•    Agile Product Delivery

Other Competencies:  
•    Should be proficient on working with project management tools – Clarity, ADO, Confluence, MS-Office (Word, PowerPoint, excel), MS-Project, MS-Planner, MS-whiteboard, etc. 
•    Should possess excellent communication and presentation skills (both written and oral). 
•    Should be proficient in doing financial forecasting & budgeting. 
•    Knowledge of Bank’s policies and procedures and key risk areas/risk types such as data quality is a must. 

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.