Job Summary

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Head of Data Products and Platforms is the product owner of SCB’s Core Data Lake and the the data products framework and governance implemented within the Domain Data Stores part of the Data Lake. The role holds dual accountability: defining and driving the product vision and roadmap for the data lake and ensuring data products are delivered by the domains as per the Data Product Frameworks .This role will also be the custodian of the Data Product Catalog within the Bank

Vision and Strategy 
•    Define the Product Vision: Establish a clear vision for the Data Lake ( Global Data Platform or GDP) as a centralized, trusted, and scalable source of enterprise data that enables analytics, AI, and business intelligence.
•    Set the Strategy: Align GDP evolution with overarching business goals and individual data strategies of Businesses and Functions in partnership with Data Architecture
•    Draw the Roadmap: Develop and maintain a prioritized backlog of capabilities, features, and foundational improvements together with the GDP Platform Owner. Balance new ingestions with platform maturity and user experience enhancements.
•    Be the Primary Business Liaison: Interface with Consumers through an agreement engagement /interaction model . Gather requirements , communicate value and manage expectations.
•    Champion Data Democratization: Advocate for and facilitate secure, governed access to data for approved users, breaking down data silos.
•    Design Data Governance implementation approach for GDP.
•    Build Data Products Framework – Minimum requirements a data product definition must meet before its enters into a delivery backlog, operating model  and implementation approach
•    Discover existing data and data products and align them to approved data product framework.

Key Responsibilities

•    Ensure Data Products are created as per the Data Product Standards and Frameworks and
•    Review Logical Data Model for Data Products to ensure alignment with overall Data Subject Areas.
•    Orchestrate Data Product Delivery in GDP working with various CDO’s and Data Domain Owners.
•    Maintain a published Data Product Catalog ( Data Marketplace) giving the organization visibility of what data products exist , what is in delivery , what is planned and what’s in decommissioned state.

Data Products Standards Ownership and Enforcement 
•    Operate the Standards Compliance Gate, enforcing requirements across data quality , metadata , lineage, access control, privacy and data owner acceptance before a data product is published onto data market place.
•    Evolve the standards framework as the platform matures, regulatory requirements change and consumption patterns develop, balancing rigour with delivery practicality.
•    Maintain the standards compliance register – tracking compliance status across all products in flight and published.
•    Feed Recurring Standards Failure back into Data by Design Programme .

Delivery 
•    Act as the CDO organizations primary product owner for data owners from a Data Lake and Data Products perspective , working with them to refine requirements and prioritize them for delivery.
•    Translate stakeholder requirements into product specifications that engineering squads can build to and data owners can accept against.
•    Manage Handoffs between delivery stages , from requirements to design to build to QA with clear ownerships and SLAs at each transition
•    Signoff the Requirements before go live 
•    Drive Data Owner Accountability for their obligations 

People & Talent
•    Promote a product-focused mindset throughout the organization—viewing platforms and data as products with dedicated users, clear roadmaps, and identifiable value metrics.
•    Encourage engineering excellence, automation, and ongoing improvement as core values.
•    Demonstrate and uphold the Group’s values and culture through leadership and example.
•    Lead and support the shift towards a client-centric, agile, and accountable culture by using standardized metrics and measurements. Ensure the team takes ownership of client outcomes and drives positive results.
•    Establish transparent metrics and standards, communicate them clearly to team members, provide constructive feedback, and recognize achievements appropriately. Set the right tone and expectations for the broader team.
•    Hire, engage, and retain high-quality personnel, ensuring succession plans are in place for key roles.

Regulatory & Business Conduct
•    Demonstrate exemplary conduct and uphold the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
•    Take responsibility for maintaining high ethical standards and ensuring compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, guidelines, and the Group Code of Conduct at Standard Chartered Bank.
•    Lead the CDO team to deliver on the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients, Effective Financial Markets, Financial Crime Compliance, and the Right Environment.
•    Identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct, and compliance issues promptly and collaboratively.

Key stakeholders
•    T & O  CIO teams
•    B&F CDO’s
•    Data Domain Owners

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Singapore / CDO team; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats)

Our Ideal Candidate

• Relevant Academic and professional qualifications
  
• 15+ years of experience in Data Products and platforms 
• Ability to Manage stakeholder engagement across technology, data, and business teams
• Define and govern product frameworks, operating models, roadmap, vision, and strategy for data platforms and data products.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.

Role Specific Technical competencies 

• Data platform product ownership.
• Product strategy, roadmap, and vision development.
• Stakeholder management and influence.
• Ability to bridge business and technology conversations.
• Data platform domain expertise.

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.

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