Sr. Associate Director, Data and Analytics

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Sr. Associate Director, Data and Analytics.

Principal responsibilities:

• Design and implement semantic models for key domains, including customer/entity, onboarding journeys, credit exposures, limits, collateral, risk ratings, portfolio hierarchies, and performance measures.
• Define and govern KPIs/metrics, with documentation and lineage.
• Translate business requirements into standard measures and conformed dimensions to ensure cross-domain consistency.
• Implement data quality and reconciliation controls to ensure metric correctness against source-of-truth platforms.
• Optimise semantic performance and cost through appropriate modelling patterns, aggregation strategies, and incremental refresh approaches.
• Apply security controls, row/column-level security and auditing to support controlled access to sensitive onboarding and credit data.
• Operate the semantic layer in production: CI/CD, monitoring, incident triage, root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Product Owners, Analysts, Risk and Operations stakeholders to drive adoption and consistent usage.

Requirements:

• Establishing “one agreed definition” for critical onboarding, credit and portfolio KPIs used across squads.
• Reducing time spent reconciling numbers across reports, dashboards and AI outputs.
• Enabling scalable self-serve analytics with clear, discoverable, versioned metric definitions.
• Maintaining a stable, performant semantic layer with strong controls and auditability.

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