Company: Mercer
Description:
We are seeking a talented individual to join our Data Management team at Wealth Investments Mercer. This role will be based in Mumbai. This is a hybrid role that has a requirement of working at least three days a week in the office.
Director - Data Management
We are looking for a dynamic and entrepreneurial leader to establish and lead a brand-new Data Team with a significant mandate to support our business in all critical processes. This role is ideal for a visionary with a tech-first mindset who can blend people, process, and technology to deliver high-impact, pragmatic solutions that directly drive business value. The position will partner closely with the Global Head of Data and the Global Data Team and business stakeholders, enabling day-to-day operational excellence while innovating to meet evolving needs.
The ideal candidate will think and act like a business owner focusing on ROI, mitigating risks, and ensuring value delivery. They will have deep expertise in the Investment Domain and a proven track record in managing data analysts, implementing robust data management practices, and delivering creative solutions that scale
We will count on you to:
Strategic Leadership
- Establish and lead a high-performing Data Team from the ground up, instilling a culture of accountability and excellence.
- Develop and execute a data strategy that aligns with business priorities and delivers measurable impact.
- Serve as a trusted partner working with the Global Data team, senior business leaders, anticipating needs and proactively offering solutions.
Solution Delivery
- Design and deliver pragmatic, scalable solutions leveraging a balanced mix of people, processes, and technology.
- Collaborate with technology teams to build both tactical and strategic solutions ranging from quick-win tools to enterprise-scale platforms.
- Oversee data pipelines, sourcing, and management for investment advisory and OCIO business areas, ensuring timely, accurate, and high-quality data delivery.
- Introduce and oversee a lightweight development capability to quickly design and deploy targeted end-user solutions, using low-code, no-code, and scripting tools.
Data Management Excellence
- Design, implement, and mature core data management practices across governance, quality, lineage, metadata, and stewardship.
- Establish policies, standards, and controls to ensure data is accurate, consistent, and fit for purpose across the investment lifecycle.
- Implement data quality monitoring and remediation processes, ensuring issues are proactively identified and addressed.
Business Partnership & Communication
- Act as the voice of the data team, effectively communicating the team s value and impact to business leaders.
- Present data-driven recommendations to influence strategic decisions
What you need to have:
- 12+ years of experience in Information Systems Management, or a related discipline with a focus on domain i.e. Investment Banking/Asset Management (Middle Office/Back office).
- Familiarity with designing data models and defining data architecture schema for Investment Banking or Asset Management purposes.
- Proficiency in data processing and working with data warehouse/big data environments relevant to Investment Banking or Asset Management.
- Excellent skillset in Reference Database Management System (RDBMS) to ingest, maintain and distribute data for Equity, Fixed Income, Alternatives and other Asset Classes.
- Proficiency identifying process flow mapping and process redesigning specifically for Investment Banking or Asset Management data.
- Proficiency in project management tools such as Jira Kanban and Confluence or similar tool is plus.
- Experience in business process improvement, including conducting data investigations to determine the root cause of data issues.
- Familiarity with ETL tools for efficiently and accurately importing new data from various external/internal sources, as well as data sourcing and data mapping specifically to Investment data.
- Good analytical and technical abilities as the role would involve ability to spot anomalies and create processes to put control on them.
- Good communication skills to ensure issues clearly identified and explained to various interested stakeholders.
- Ability to work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary and global teams to ensure goals are met
What makes you stand out
- Experience and/or familiarity in no-code, low-code solutions and latest AI-based coding tools
- Knowledge and experience gained in implementing financial data solutions such as S&P EDM, Alpha Data Platform, and/or FactSet.
- Industry qualifications - CFA or CIPM or DAMA
- Demonstrated willingness to support and mentor colleagues
- Demonstrated experience in taking a hands-on approach working closely with the team and colleagues to design, develop and implement data solutions
- Excellent communication skills working closely with colleagues at all levels
- Experience of business process improvement in asset management for example, performing data investigations to determine root cause of data quality issues.
Why join our team:
- We help you be your best through professional development opportunities, interesting work and supportive leaders.
- We foster a vibrant and inclusive culture where you can work with talented colleagues to create new solutions and have impact for colleagues, clients and communities.
- Our scale enables us to provide a range of career opportunities, as well as benefits and rewards to enhance your well-being.
