Technology Product Owner- Data Governance

Technical Product Owner

Bring your ideas. Make history.
BNY Mellon offers an exciting array of future-forward careers at the intersection of business, finance, and technology. We are one of the world's top asset management and banking firms that manages trillions of dollars in assets, custody and/or administration. Known as the “bank of banks” - 97% of the world’s top banks work with us as we lead and serve our customers into the new era of digital.

With over 240 years of rich history and industry firsts, BNY Mellon has been built upon our proven ability to evolve, lead, and drive new ideas at every turn. Today, we’re approximately 50,000 employees across 35 countries with a culture that empowers you to grow, take risks, experiment and be yourself. This is what #LifeAtBNYMellon is all about.

We’re seeking a future team member in the role of Technical Product Owner to join our Enterprise Data Management team. This role is in Lake Mary, FL.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Work on some of the most complex and interesting problems at the intersection of two dynamic Industries Finance and Technology
• Develop the process flows and controls capability ensuring we have full business context of how our businesses operate.
• Influence decisions on Process enhancement and Controls Strategy and implementing Innovative technology-based solutions.
• Interact with other high-performing teams within BNY Mellon to inspire innovation and champion change throughout the bank.
• Establish large and fascinating business context domain knowledge through the lens of data management currently not available anywhere else.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Experienced hands-on Operational Process and Controls with solid data and Metadata Management, from concept to implementation
• Strong stakeholder management and people skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and management expectations accordingly to senior stakeholders.
• Experience with complex business process flow modelling, data structures and operational risk controls.
• Team player and acts on own initiative, taking the opportunity to identify opportunities.
• People Leadership, be able to inspire and build momentum across a global team.

Required:

• You have 10+ years of experience, with at least 4 years leading a data management capability from inception to operation.
• Knowledge of financial products and business processes and risk controls self-assessment
• You have strong analytical and management skills and the ability to independently own the capability or their components end-to-end, with a demonstrable track record of delivery.
• Experience in organizing, researching, and analyzing stakeholder needs. You bridge the technical and business worlds with a combination of vision, and market/user/competitor research.
• Experience in business analysis, user research, maturity road-mapping, change management, planning and reporting.
• Worked in Agile environment and played an active role in scrums such as backlog refinement, sprint planning and sprint demo. Adept in using backlog prioritization techniques to define sprint goals and enable iterative deliveries.
• A working knowledge of data governance frameworks, best practices in particular Business Process Modelling, Controls environment in alignment with risk management standards (RCSA), Data Quality and Metadata Management.
• Experienced with UML, BPMN, Lean Six Sigma (SIPOC) Modelling
• You have a view on what it takes to build a scalable capability, shared components and services that can serve multiple distribution channels across the Enterprise.
• The ability to build consensus amongst a wide range of partners including businesses and functions, technology, operations, legal & compliance.
• You are a team player and can roll your sleeves up when you need to and are also able to lead and influence conversations with all involved parties.
• Ability to navigate a matrix organization and the ability to influence peers by articulating the capability offering and value to business partners.
• You are a self-starter, with the curiosity, energy, drive and stamina to seek out and bring to fruition new opportunities, capability enhancements and improved ways of working.

Desirable:

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience working with vendor data management vendors, such as Collibra, Solidatus, Igrafx
• Product/project management certification
• Data management certification

At BNY Mellon, our inclusive culture speaks for itself. Here’s a few of our awards:

• Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies & Top 20 for Diversity and Inclusion
• Bloomberg’s Gender Equality Index (GEI)
• Human Rights Campaign Foundation, 100% score Corporate Equality Index
• Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion, Disability: IN – 100% score
• 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators, Fast Company
• CDP’s Climate Change ‘A List’

Our Benefits:

BNY Mellon offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves that can support you and your family through moments that matter.

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

Provides technical leadership in a specific business domain within a line of business. Serves in a cross-program role to ensure quality of the deliverables within their areas of expertise and drives innovation and strategic solutions within global, mission-critical, large-scale programs. Provides expertise for a specific domain within a line of business. Directs and assists team to elicit, challenge, and prioritize requirements, translate into functional design and use case models. Manages the project scope, objectives, constraints and assumptions for a large, strategic, multi-year program. Provides guidance in development of the technical design, test plans, and user documentation. Leads implementation/conversion strategy planning and implementation. Manages scope and change throughout the initiative utilizing formal change control and requirements traceability. Gathers and analyzes information and provides recommendations to address strategic business objectives that span multiple, global business and technology areas. Participates in industry forums and keeps current on domain knowledge for their specific business and application areas of expertise. Applies experiences with existing software and/or systems development processes to define and collect metrics and develop better processes to be used in the future. Actively influences software and/or systems development process improvement initiatives. Sets product vision, defines the solution scope and responsible for creating backlog, epics and validating requirements. Sets business strategy by working with business and stakeholders and shares the requirements with the team. Responsible for a particular product and works to grow it from its inception to matured state with the right vision. Contributes to the achievement of related area objectives. Bachelor's degree in business or technical-related discipline, or equivalent work experience required, advanced degree preferred 10-12 years of experience in providing consulting advice to senior IT and business management required, experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.Provides expertise for a specific domain within a line of business. Directs and assists team to elicit, challenge, and prioritize requirements, translate into functional design and use case models. Manages the project scope, objectives, constraints and assumptions for a large, strategic, multi-year program.Provides guidance in development of the technical design, test plans, and user documentation. Leads implementation/conversion strategy planning and implementation. Manages scope and change throughout the initiative utilizing formal change control and requirements traceability.Gathers and analyzes information and provides recommendations to address strategic business objectives that span multiple, global business and technology areas. Participates in industry forums and keeps current on domain knowledge for their specific product and application areas of expertise.Applies experiences with existing software and/or systems development processes to define and collect metrics and develop better processes to be used in the future. Actively influences software and/or systems development process improvement initiatives. Also participates in backlog grooming and prioritization and sprint planning.MODIFIED BASED UPON LOCAL REGULATIONS/REQUIREMENTSBachelor's degree in business or technical-related discipline, or equivalent work experience required, advanced degree preferred.10-12 years of experience in providing consulting advice to senior IT and business management required, experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.. BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans. Our ambition is to build the best global team – one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve – and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.