Senior Data Product Owner / Program Lead
Job Description
Contract role in New York focused on wealth management capital markets data, including migration and governance, while leading program and data product outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Work with business stakeholders to define key metrics, KPIs, and data requirements
- Translate complex datasets into business-oriented insights and actionable recommendations
- Own data accuracy, consistency, and governance across platforms
- Lead deep-dive analyses to identify trends, risks, and opportunities
- Partner with data scientists, product managers, and business teams to enable strategic initiatives
- Support program execution by assessing downstream impact of data and platform changes across business and technology teams
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience as Data Product Owner and Program Lead
- Strong proficiency in SQL and analytics tools
- Proven experience in financial services and wealth management domain, including expertise in stock plans financial data, Crypto, and related business processes
- Solid understanding of data modeling architecture and governance principles
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Domain and Skills
- Strong wealth management capital markets data domain experience
- Knowledge of securities positions, transactions, reference market data, and downstream consumers
- Experience with data rationalization, defining source of truth decisions, and reconciliation of data definitions
- Experience supporting large platform data migrations
- Strong program management capabilities; focus is on business data domain depth rather than a generic PMO profile
- Capabilities in financial data analysis and data management
- Collaboration and communication skills across teams
Technologies
- SQL
- Dataiku
- Analytics tools
Location and Role Details
- New York, NY, United States (onsite)
- Contract
- Compensation: USD 48 - 75 per hourly
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Retirement benefits
Preferred Skills
- Familiarity with analytics tools such as Dataiku
- Prior experience working with Wealth Management teams