Data Product Management Director – India Lead (Finance)

About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Data Product / Data Management Director– India Lead to drive end-to-end data product execution, governance, and transformation initiatives from India in support of global stakeholders.

This role will act as the in-region leader for data product delivery, translating enterprise strategy into scalable, high-quality, and compliant execution.

In this role, you will provide:

Strategic Leadership & Product Ownership

• Define and execute data product strategy and roadmap aligned to enterprise priorities
• Drive data-driven transformation, automation, and analytics enablement across Finance

Data Management & Governance

• Establish and scale data governance, data quality, lineage, metadata and controls frameworks
• Set and enforce standards for data flow, access, documentation, and remediation 
• Ensure adherence to risk, compliance, audit and regulatory requirements across data products

Delivery & Execution Excellence

• Oversee end-to-end lifecycle of data products and data initiatives with a keen focus on automation using AI tools
• Drive execution across:
  • Data sourcing, mapping, lineage, and dictionary creation
  • Data transformation and reporting ecosystems
• Ensure predictable, high-quality delivery across global stakeholders

Stakeholder & Global Engagement

• Lead stakeholder engagement and build strong partnerships across global teams
• Increase stakeholder awareness, accountability, and engagement in data and reporting processes

India Delivery Leadership

• Act as the single point of accountability for India-based data product delivery
• Optimize capacity, productivity, and cost efficiency of India teams
• Build India as a high-performing delivery hub leveraging new age AI tools

People & Team Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of data product managers, analysts, and data specialists

Drive performance management, talent development, and hiring strategy

• Manage and develop two or more specialized teams of managers and professional individual contributors with a focus on delivering moderate to high complexity and risk data productization and enablement for cross-functional stakeholders and internal partners associated with the data product platforms or affected by its outcomes
• Identify opportunities and strategies for data enablement solutions that impact multiple data domains and platforms, ensuring compliance with data governance and standards
• Lead data product team by making strategic decisions to resolve highly complex issues to meet higher risk deliverables that maximize data enablement across multiple data platforms and utilities; interpret and develop range of policies and procedures for functions with moderate to higher complexity and risk
• Collaborate with and influence all levels of professionals including senior leadership, business, risk partners, and technical leaders within Enterprise Data Management and Technology
• Act as a catalyst to socialize capabilities, features, use case studies, and other relevant artifacts to advance the value of data enablement and productization across the enterprise
• Establish and drive a comprehensive vision and implementation strategy for data utility services and platforms that is consistent with the broader data product strategy
• Manage allocation of people and financial resources to ensure commitments are met and align with strategic objectives in aligned department or business group
• Develop and guide a culture of talent development to meet business objectives and strategy

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of data product or data management or leadership experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
• 10+years of experience in Data Management, Product Management, Analytics, or Transformation roles in financial services industry
• 4+ years of management or leadership experience
• Master’s degree in Finance, Statistics, Engineering, or related field
• Deep expertise in:
  • Data governance, metadata, lineage, and data quality frameworks
  • Data mapping, profiling, and enterprise data platforms
• Strong experience with tools such as:
  • SQL, Informatica, Collibra, Power BI, Alteryx
  • Data Reengineering and AI skills
• Proven ability to manage global stakeholders and cross-functional teams
• Strong risk management, communication, and leadership skills

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong track record in automation, AI/analytics enablement, and productivity improvement
• Experience with enterprise finance data systems and architecture (e.g., FDLZ, MOSART, Hyperion, OLAP)
• Experience building or scaling global capability centers / India hubs

Posting End Date: 

*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

We Value Equal Opportunity

Wells Fargo is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable Wells Fargo policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions. There is emphasis on proactive monitoring, governance, risk identification and escalation, as well as making sound risk decisions commensurate with the business unit’s risk appetite and all risk and compliance program requirements.

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