Product and Delivery Manager – Data Discovery and Lineage Architect

We are a team of around 200+ people distributed globally and are engaged in a wide array of projects touching all business units (Institutional Securities, Investment Management, Wealth Management) and functions (e.g. Operations, Finance, Risk, Trading, Treasury, Resilience) across the Firm.

The team vision is a multi-year effort to simplify firm’s data architecture and business processes front-to-back with goals of reducing infrastructure and manpower costs, improving the ability to demonstrate control of data, empowering developers by providing consistent means of handling data, facilitate data-driven insights & decision making.

Program Description

We are working on an exciting new initiative to build an Enterprise Knowledge Graph by harnessing the power of Graph and Semantic technologies to map complex application, data, and infrastructure asset relationships to facilitate data-driven insights and decision making.

Across our business divisions, as we strive to understand risk impact, optimize cost, assess business resiliency, manage change and identify opportunities – all critical to fuel the growth engine -, we need to link vast amount of data of different types and forms across heterogeneous data sources across the Firm to generate meaningful intelligence.

Role

The “Data Center of Excellence” department is recruiting for an enthusiastic, dynamic “Product and Delivery Manager” for this innovative program that plans to harness the power of Graph & Semantic Technologies to build an Enterprise Knowledge Graph and solve complex business problems around Data Lineage, Metadata Management, Data protection and overall data strategy.

As a member of our Software Development team, we look first and foremost for people who are passionate about solving business problems through innovation and engineering practices. You’ll be required to apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, as well as partner with stakeholders to stay focused on business goals. We embrace a culture of experimentation and constantly strive for improvement and learning. You’ll work in a collaborative, trusting, thought-provoking environment—one that encourages diversity of thought and creative solutions that are in the best interests of our customers globally. You’ll combine your design and development expertise with a never-ending quest to create innovative technology through solid engineering practices. You’ll work with highly inspired and inquisitive team of technologists who are developing & delivering top quality technology products to our clients & stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee end to end project & delivery management functions such as requirements, scope, prioritization, roadmap/plan, budget, resource planning, dependency & change management and stakeholder management
• Manage and oversee various Product management functions such as requirements & use case capture, backlog maintenance & grooming
• Utilize various techniques like Design thinking, user journey mapping, value stream mapping to envision new ideas & product features. Take new feature ideas from ideation / exploration with customers to delivery planning and full production rollout, including communication and adoption plan
• Work closely with business and technology stakeholders to align development priorities & planning with product and technology roadmap
• Collaborate with the development team using Agile/scrum methodologies around use cases, development sequencing, priorities, and phasing for MVPs
• Be data-driven, creating and monitoring product and customer value metrics to make objective prioritization decisions
• Utilize application development and data architecture expertise along with business domain knowledge to drive the program execution and product evolution around overall data strategy including Data Lineage, Metadata Management, Data Protection, Knowledge graph development

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and solid 10+ years’ experience with Technology product and delivery management functions
• 6+ years of hands-on product management as well as business & data analysis experience in a fast-paced agile development environment
• Prior experience in roles and functions that are highly data-driven and that required understanding of data and technology architectures as related to business requirements, use-cases, and functional designs
• Experience building solutions for data lineage, metadata management, data catalogs, data governance, data quality improvements, taxonomies
• A combination of deep technical knowledge, program management expertise as well as customer & delivery focused mindset
• Strong ability to discuss requirements, user stories and technical solution details with the development team, while also clearly communicating product features, roadmap and business value to senior business and technology stakeholders
• An outstanding ability to analyze problems with keen attention to the details, apply quantitative analytical approaches, communicate effectively and concisely, and work well in cross-functional teams
• Experience delivering user experiences that are empowering and well-designed, preferably including data visualization
• Self-starter with strong creative problem solving, facilitation, communication and interpersonal skills

Desired Skills

• Knowledge of Banking or Capital Markets and familiar with current regulations such as BCBS 239, IFRS, CCAR and relevant data governance & data management requirements
• Experience with knowledge graph development or information management

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between 140000 and 200000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Posting Date

Jan 19, 2023

Primary Location

Americas-United States of America-New York-New York

Education Level

Bachelor’s Degree

Job

Business Analysis

Employment Type

Full Time

Job Level

Vice President