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Director/Executive Director, Data Design and Models

Director/Executive Director, Data Design and Models

SMBC Group
12-14 Years
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  • Posted 25 days ago
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Job Description

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the design of APAC-wide and contribute to global standard for data structures and integration frameworks, defining how data is organized, connected, stored, and consumed across business domains.
  • Define and maintain canonical data models, domain data models, enterprise information structures, metadata standards, and manifest specifications to support operational, analytical, regulatory, and AI workloads.
  • Establish standards and best practices for logical, and physical data modeling across the organization, including structured and unstructured data modeling approaches.
  • Design semantic models and business data layers that provide consistent and reusable definitions for reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.
  • Define enterprise data product design standards, ensuring data assets are scalable, discoverable, reusable, and aligned with data mesh principles.
  • Develop reference designs and reusable patterns for data ingestion, integration, transformation, and distribution across cloud and on-premise environments.
  • Establish standards for data ingestion, transformation frameworks, streaming data pipelines, event-driven platforms, metadata-driven workflows, and API-based data services.
  • Define and create technical capabilities of data quality frameworks, validation controls, metadata management practices, and engineering guardrails that improve the reliability and integrity of enterprise data assets.
  • Partner with Data Platform Engineering teams to ensure platform capabilities align with current and future data design, metadata, and AI enablement requirements.
  • Collaborate with AI and Analytics teams to design AI-ready data structures, feature engineering standards, vectorized data models, knowledge representations, and agentic-ready platform design patterns.
  • Review and approve strategic data design decisions, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards, scalability requirements, and long-term technology strategy.
  • Drive continuous improvement of data design methodologies, metadata management practices, manifest-driven development standards, tooling, and engineering practices across the organization.
  • Deep understanding of BCBS239 and various SMBC branch regulations and GDR requirements for regulatory reporting
  • Create and maintain data platform detailed design, domain models for BCBS239, Product domains analytics

Qualifications & Skills

  • Minimum 12 years experience in enterprise data design, solution design, or large-scale data engineering leadership roles.
  • Proven expertise designing enterprise data ecosystems and large-scale data platforms in complex financial services environments.
  • Deep knowledge of conceptual, logical, physical, dimensional, domain-driven, and unstructured data modeling methodologies.
  • Strong experience designing modern data platforms including Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Data Fabric, event-driven ecosystems, and API-based integration patterns.
  • Hands-on knowledge of enterprise data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Kafka, Spark, Delta Lake, and cloud-native data services.
  • Experience defining standards for data transformation frameworks, streaming platforms, metadata-driven development, manifest design, and data product engineering.
  • Strong understanding of semantic layers, metadata management, structured and unstructured data models, and analytical data modeling techniques.
  • Experience supporting AI and machine learning platforms through scalable feature engineering, analytical data models, knowledge layers, and AI-ready data structures.
  • Strong governance, technical leadership, and stakeholder management capabilities with the ability to influence engineering teams and senior stakeholders.
  • Banking and financial services experience across regulatory, risk, finance, customer, and transaction data domains preferred.

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Key Skills

event-driven ecosystems

semantic layers

API-based integration patterns

data product engineering

enterprise data design

data transformation frameworks

metadata-driven development

analytical data modeling techniques

Data Lakehouse

AI-ready data structures

Delta Lake

feature engineering

Data Fabric

Data Mesh

data modeling methodologies

manifest design

large-scale data engineering

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