Director, Product Owner

Job Description

Organization DescriptionData Management is part of the Central Technology Organisation (CTO) and plays a pivotal role in supporting all the Lines of Business and Corporate Functions with leading edge technology solutions in JPMorgan. Its core priority and focus are on enabling the firm to embrace, adopt and deliver real business value, at pace to enable AI/ML solutions driven by Global consumers whilst ensuring compliance to the Firmwide Data Policy for all the platforms modern or legacy.Employer DescriptionJ.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.Job DescriptionWho we are Within the JADE Data Management Product Line exist a suite of Capabilities with the following mission goals:

• Provide a sustainable inventory of metadata, controls and assessments supported by a broad set of data management capabilities.
• Enable JPMorgan s physical data to be consistently described and classified to support the Firms data policy via effective data risks management.
• Focus on engineered and manual capabilities in support of Data Stored, Moved, Consumed and Processed that works for all legacy and modern data platforms.
• Realise value for key personas (Chief Data Officers, Data Scientists, Data Owners and Application Owners) to find and use data that is managed in support of business value outcomes.

Why join The data journey has never been more front and central to the Firm s success. From the Operating Committee of the Firm down the focus is on ensuring the Data Program achieves its goals for the Business. Not often programs of work come along with this level of focus to build products, leveraging the latest technology, be part of a global team and execute with full priority with required investment. At the heart of the JADE strategy is Data Access Policy Enforcement, to ensure the right controls on data access and for the first time ensure they are driven by metadata.You will:

• Work on some of the most complex data problems imaginable to ensure metadata can drive data access control.
• Drive Business Results by:
  • setting the Product s vision, roadmap and objectives, and effectively cascades these throughout the organisation.
  • Identifies new opportunities to influence the firm s business and technology strategy in their business domain
  • Uses a broad business understanding, commercial acumen and deep understanding of own specialism(s) to guide product delivery
• Design the vision of what metadata I required, partner with the Firmwide Data Management function to consistently capture and then use to drive enforcement of data protection in products be that internal, external or cloud-based technologies.
• Develop products with full autonomy to define the vision, strategy and manage the backlog with engineering teams utilising an agile methodology.
• Interact and partner with unbelievably large and talented data technology organisation
• Influence decisions on data access and controls agenda with Firmwide Data Management, Operations and Technology partners
• Interact with other high-performing teams within JPM to inspire innovation and champion change throughout the bank

What you will be working on Data exists in Transactional Stores, Operational Data Stores and Big Data Stores. This Product Owner role will work on defining and executing solutions to address known Data Access Control pain points:

1. Inconsistent Policy Enforcement: As data is replicated across multiple data platforms, there is no consistent policy definition nor enforcement mechanism across platforms
2. Lack of metadata-driven approach to defining entitlement policies that drive Policy enforcement
3. Lack of fine grained access control: Some data platforms (Eq. AWS, Hadoop) currently do not natively provide fine-grained data access control at column, row and cell level; Different data platforms enforce data access controls differently
4. Tight-coupling: The access control is tightly coupled with the physical data structures and hard to manage with frequently change and policy definitions
5. Operational Complexity: Auditing and monitoring of the access control policy is labour intensive

Influence the design of solutions to deliver for multiple stakeholders simultaneouslyCollaborate with the firms Design and User Experience teams, providing clear requirements derived from user research to develop a best-in-class platform offeringManage the functional and technical requirements of business stakeholders to support their core requirementsPartner with internal engineering and vendor solutions as requiredWho are we hiring We are looking for an outstanding, Executive Director - Senior Product Manager - with deep experience of Data Access and Controls driven by Metadata from concept to delivery. We are looking for someone who, when something needs to be done, people come to you to get it done.Required:

• You have 10+ years of experience in a product role and at least 4 years of management experience
• Current or previous engineering experience around machine readable metadata driven ETL/ELT/ELTLT workloads using traditional and/or cloud native tools (specific case studies)
• Be able to demonstrate deep understanding of at least one data domain in any industry from attributes level details to enterprise level concepts in the context of heterogeneous data sources (structure, syntax, semantics) to streamline data life cycle from sourcing, transformation, consumption of reference/master data, transaction data, etc. for reliable and scalable analytics.
• Proven track record of product, agile and scrum ways of working
• You have strong leadership skills and the ability to independently own products or a portfolio of products end-to-end. You have a strong track record of product deliveries
• Familiarity with core areas in Metadata, Data Access, Policy and Enforcement
• Familiarity with AWS and Cloud based platforms but equally experience with other large data platform offerings.
• The ability to build consensus amongst a wide range of partners including business owners, technology, operations, legal & compliance, marketing & sales

DesirableBachelor s degreeThe hiring manager for this job opening would welcome a conversation about flexibility. This could range from ad hoc flexibility in a full-time position, to a more formal Flexible Work ArrangementJPMorgan Chase & Co. offers an exceptional benefits program and a highly competitive compensation package. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of the UK Government s Disability Confident Scheme,

Keyskills :
leadership skillsagiledata structuresaccess controlfinancial servicesbig dataproduct managementdata managementuser experiencescrumdeliveryuser researchlife cycledata domainmarketing