Job Description:
Job Title- Technical Data Product Owner Illiquid, AVP
Location- Bangalore, India
Role Description
You own the data products for our alternative investments and AIF structures. That covers all the data these vehicles run on: valuations of illiquid and unlisted holdings, capital calls and distributions, commitments and undrawn amounts and the data behind the AIFMD reporting obligations.
Your main goal is creating reliable and reproducible data products out of inputs that are inherently diverse, incomplete, point-in-time sensitive and are delivered in very different periods and formats.
The role sits in IT but is closely tied to the business. You are the contact person for our business departments and capture their data needs, understand their business from a data perspective and drive the realisation of data products from end-to-end perspective.
What we’ll offer you
As part of our flexible scheme, here are just some of the benefits that you’ll enjoy
Best in class leave policy
Gender neutral parental leaves
100% reimbursement under childcare assistance benefit (gender neutral)
Sponsorship for Industry relevant certifications and education
Employee Assistance Program for you and your family members
Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance for you and your dependents
Accident and Term life Insurance
Complementary Health screening for 35 yrs. and above
Your key responsibilities
Own and prioritise the backlog of alternatives/AIF data products including e.g. valuations, cash flows (calls, drawdowns, distributions), commitments, performance, investor data, and regulatory inputs.
Together with your manager you will develop a product visions and strategies for the data products to ensure that the data products deliver accurate, complete and reproducible data to serve e.g. customer and regulatory reporting like AIFMD obligations (Annex IV reporting, depositary reconciliation, look-through and transparency).
You convert the visions and strategies to product roadmaps and you define each product properly in terms of what it contains, where it comes from, the expected cadence and lag, and what "correct" and "as-of" mean for it.
You work and connect with all the stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations by applying different methods of product thinking and create a solid foundation to support the visions and product strategies.
You manage illiquids product backlogs by applying your understanding of business priorities and ensure the correct items are prioritized for development.
You liaise with the data engineering and platform team to realise the data products until they are accepted by the business and deployed in production.
You ensure that the products are continuously supported and optimized by adding or adapting new features as the business strategy changes and monitor the performance and adpotion of the products with well-defined KPIs.
You work with Data Governance and other compliance/governance departments to ensure a regulatory compliant and auditable setup of the data products.
Your skills and experience
>7 years working experience, at least 3 of them in IT or technical position on business side.
>5 years experience or relevant exposure to asset management, financial services, data management or product management
>3 years experience in agile ways of working in data or software projects.
strong understanding of alternative investment funds and AIF structures.
strong data literacy in Business Intelligence Tools, Databases or other analytical functions.
strong understanding of software development processes, business analysis methodologies and ways of working, data governance processes
good understanding of regulatory reporting and the underlying regulatory obligations/requirements.
experience in working with data engineering and technical teams
experience with agile tools like Jira, Confluence, Figma, Azure DevOps etc.
Qualification:
University degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration,…