Account & SSI Platform - Product Owner - Vice President

Lead Account & SSI golden-source platform strategy; deliver roadmap and data-quality uplift via APIs/events.

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in “Account & SSI Reference Data Product Management”. You have found the right team.

As “Account & SSI Reference Data Product Management Professional / Lead” within our “Account & SSI Golden Source Platform Team” , you will be responsible for setting and improving our organizational objectives, and ensuring their consistent accomplishment.

Job Responsibilities

Own the product vision, roadmap, and backlog for the Account & SSI golden source platform aligned to business value, resilience, and controls.

Lead global end-to-end delivery planning including sequencing, dependencies, and release management across a matrixed environment.

Translate operational, risk, and regulatory requirements into prioritized, development-ready user stories with measurable acceptance criteria and clear DoR/DoD.

Drive agile execution by partnering with the Scrum Master to run ceremonies and maintain delivery cadence and transparency.

Define how account and SSI data is captured, validated, approved, and published with strong controls, traceability, and auditability.

Establish data standards, lineage, stewardship, and governance to reduce data proliferation and increase trust in the golden source.

Monitor data quality for accuracy, timeliness, completeness, and consistency, and prioritize remediation and uplift alongside new features.

Partner with Compliance and Risk to align KYC, AML, and sanctions dependencies to policy, evidence, and control design.

Coordinate integrations between onboarding/KYC and downstream consumers across payments, settlement, trade allocation, and regulatory reporting.

Implement API-based and event-driven publishing with defined contracts and controlled rollout to downstream platforms and utilities.

Track OKRs/KPIs (e.g., exceptions/repairs, settlement fails, STP, SLAs) and provide executive-ready status, risk, and remediation reporting.

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

Product ownership experience leading strategy and execution for an internal, cross–line of business platform.

Strong backlog management, prioritization, and trade-off decisioning across features, remediation, and standards-driven change.

Demonstrated ability to convert complex requirements into development-ready stories with clear acceptance criteria.

Strong understanding of data controls, traceability, auditability, and change control for regulatory readiness.

Experience driving data quality, stewardship, lineage, and standards for reference data platforms.

Familiarity with onboarding/KYC processes and downstream operational consumption patterns.

Knowledge of operational risk and regulatory considerations impacting client/account/SSI data.

Experience delivering API and event-driven distribution patterns for enterprise data products.

Ability to influence executive stakeholders across Technology, Operations, Compliance, and business leaders in a global environment.

Strong judgement and comfort with ambiguity, making explicit trade-offs framed in risk, operational impact, and value.

Clear, concise communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences, including senior forums.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

Bachelor’s or Master’s in a quantitative or related field (Finance, Maths, Stats, CS, Engineering).

Certifications such as CSPO, SAFe POPM, PMP, or PRINCE2.

Exposure to Markets, Investor Services, custody, clearing, and Prime brokerage.

Working knowledge of SSI utilities (DTCC ALERT, SWIFT).

Familiarity with industry/regulatory standards change (SWIFT MT/MX, ISO 20022, BIC, IBAN, LEI).