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Vice President, Data Curate Partners Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid) Reporting to: Chief Information Officer The Opportunity Join at a pivotal moment in our transformation journey. As Vice President, Data, you will be instrumental in reshaping the client into a digitallyempowered, datadriven organization, both in terms of how we operate and who we are for our clients. This is a rare opportunity to build a data platform, culture, and suite of products from the ground up within a complex, regulated, and growthoriented financial services environment. You will lead a modestlysized highimpact team, building a data ecosystem and championing dataled decision making and operational excellence across the firm. Delivering on your mandate will necessitate excellent peer relationships, including with the heads of Business Platforms, AI, Engineering, IT Operations, Governance and Program Delivery, all of whose collaboration will be needed to achieve the business outcomes. Your work will enable our business and institutional clients to benefit from the full potential of data, as we refresh our technology leadership and corporate strategy. In the role, you will be supported by technology leadership development training, dedicated access to research and consulting resources, and coaching on stage presence. Additionally, you will have access to the companys extensive learning and development resources, including mentoring programs. Be a part of a refreshed leadership team, executing on a new, ambitious mandate for Technology, Data and AI that will elevate the company as a standout digital firm in financial services. Role Overview Define and Execute Data Strategy: Support short and longterm business goals with data initiatives, ensuring our data ecosystem grows in line with our enterprise programs adding enhanced value for the company and its clients. Build and Lead a HighPerforming Team: Guide, mentor, and inspire a team of handson and strategic data professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration and innovation. Rapidly add skills where needed to create an organization capable of handson delivery, business partnership and thought leadership across the technology organization. Develop Core Data Capabilities: Own the design and implementation of the futurestate data platform (leveraging Snowflake), develop data products, catalogues, master data management, metadata management, data quality, lineage and access control solutions. Rapidly develop a codified understanding of the organizations data needs that empower automation, analytics and enhanced client experiences. Establish Data Governance: Partner with Governance functions to guide development of policies and procedures based on industry best practice and hardwon personal experience. Design and implement controls and remediation programs that ensure the integrity, security, and responsible use of data, achieving ready and purposeful data access while maintaining complete regulatory and policy compliance. Enable AI and Digital Transformation: Collaborate with peer AI, Digital, and Platform leads within the Technology function to deliver AIready data, empowering advanced analytics, automation, and new digital products. Partner with peers in and outside of Technology to build an appreciation of the lifecycle for each dataset and product being used across the business. Drive Data Fluency, Culture and Ownership: Champion and coach the organization in data literacy and fluency, fostering federated data ownership and a datadriven mindset across all business functions. Ensure those with new datarelated responsibilities are enabled to succeed in their functions, supported by the right tooling, MI, learning resources and coaching. Deliver Enterprise Data Programs: Lead the endtoend maturation of our data assets, from architecting ingestion and storage, to catalogue maintenance and enduser training, ensuring adoption and alignment with business priorities. Build and own the enterprise scale data platform, associated tooling and full data operations supporting highavailability, controlled and frictionless access to the firms wellcurated data assets. Bridge Silos and Translate Value: Act as a translator between departments, breaking down silos and building relationships to elevate data understanding and collaboration. Collaborate horizontally to achieve business outcomes, putting collective success ahead of, individual or team contributions. Be an accessible, expert and inquisitive partner to business colleagues. Successfully operating within constraints: Managing budgets, timelines, resources and dependencies taking into account realities of the operating environment, including regulation, BAU needs, investment priorities for your own and other teams. Representing the organization: As a senior member of the leadership team in a growing and strategicallyimportant part of the organization, become comfortable discussing deliveries, strategy, industry trends and your own thought leadership to an internal and external, public audience. Leverage Powerful Partnerships: Learn the data ecosystems of the companys parent organizations, harness existing capabilities that catalyze our own data maturization and work collectively with stakeholders in those companies on our data journey. Build an understanding amongst the data team of the business operations and data operations in both parent organizations. Key Outcomes A Modern Data Platform: Architect and deliver a scalable, secure, and innovative data platform, positioning the company for future growth and digital enablement. The Right Data Products: Design and steward the data sets, taxonomy and ontology that support business operations and client needs. Business Empowerment: Equip business leaders and teams with the data, tools, training and understanding needed to drive performance and client outcomes. Enterprise Data Maturity: Advance the organizations data stewardship, governance and fluency, embedding datadriven thinking and accountability throughout our culture. A DataFluent Organization: Educate, coach and support teams throughout the organization to understand and excel in their role as data owners, stewards and stakeholders. Successfully operating within constraints: Managing budgets, timelines, resources and dependencies taking into account realities of the operating environment, including regulation, BAU needs, investment priorities for your own and other teams. Strategic Impact: Enable AI, digital, and transformation initiatives with highquality, accessible data, driving measurable business results and competitive advantage. About You You are a thoughtful, technically skilled collaborator with a track record of building and leading data teams in complex environments. You thrive in handson roles, balancing strategic vision with the ability to execute and deliver. You bring an appreciation for the nuances of operating in a regulated industry, and experience in all elements of the data lifecycle. A subject matter expert, you are able to translate complex concept into sowhat for business leaders, while supporting your team to achieve their deliverables at a high standard. Energetic and passionate about your field, you drive yourself, your team and colleagues to continuously improve, reacting to feedback from the right metrics and remaining focused on business outcomes. Leading outcomedriven change and driving dataled innovation in crossfunctional, evolving organizations. Communicating complex or novel data concepts to diverse audiences, adapting your approach to cultural and technical readiness. Building and owning data platforms and architectures (e.g., Snowflake, SQL, big data) and implementing data catalogues, controls and compliance solutions. Coaching, mentoring, and uplifting those around you, fostering a culture of data ownership and literacy, and persisting in the face of challenge. Bridging gaps between business and technology, translating opportunities to improve how we operate and deliver for our clients into priorities for our organizational data maturity. Transparent, collaborative and datadriven decisionmaking driven by tight alignment to achieving business outcomes and progressing strategy. You lead with energy, approachability, vision, pragmatism and collaboration; you build followership, create hightrust groups, promote passionate unfiltered debate to find the best answers; challenge your team teams, your peers and yourself to continuously improve. #J-18808-Ljbffr