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Banking & Financial Services

Information Technology

Director, Data Strategy and Transformation

Job details

Location: Singapore
Job Type: Permanent
Discipline:
Reference: BF/LT/DDST/06022026C
Posted: about 14 hours ago
Consultant: Leonard Toh
Consultant Email: email Leonard
Consultant Phone: +65 6950 0391

Job description

​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 out to Leonard Toh at LeonardT@charterhouse.com.sg for a discussion.

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Only successful candidates will be notified.