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Senior Manager, Data Product Manager

Scotiabank
Toronto, CAN
Full-time
Mid-Senior
Onsite
Discovered 3 weeks ago
Data product managementAzure DatabricksMicrosoft Azure lakehouse architectureUnity CatalogAzure Data Lake Storage Gen2Azure Data Factory

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Role overview

Leads strategy, lifecycle, and value realization for International Banking data products and shared data capabilities.

Acts as senior product authority, aligning business, engineering, governance, risk, and country stakeholders.

Products are published on Harbour, the bank's Azure Databricks platform, using reusable producer/consumer architecture.

Leads a small team of Data Product Managers/Product Owners.

Product strategy and delivery

  • Define product vision, strategy, roadmaps, backlogs, and measurable outcomes for domain data products and shared capabilities.
  • Translate stakeholder needs into product requirements, epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
  • Partner with engineering, architecture, and Harbour teams to apply approved ingestion, data contract, medallion, and reuse patterns.
  • Manage discovery, design, launch, adoption, enhancement, and retirement with delivery teams.

Migration, governance, and value

  • Plan migration and rationalization of legacy DB2, SQL Server, Hadoop, SAS, and Google Cloud workloads onto Harbour.
  • Prioritize sources and transitions, plan historical loads, coordinate consumer migration, and decommission temporary legacy assets.
  • Embed ownership, catalogs, metadata, semantics, lineage, quality monitoring, classification, and role-based access controls.
  • Meet security, privacy, residency, and local regulatory needs; contribute to assessments and audit/control evidence.
  • Own business cases, funding, cost-to-serve, cloud consumption, benefit tracking, and executive-ready progress reporting.

Team leadership

  • Coach and develop product professionals, assign work across products and markets, set objectives, provide feedback, and participate in hiring.
  • Set product standards for discovery, roadmapping, OKRs, and backlog management.

Education and experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
  • Master's degree, such as an MBA or MSc in Data/Analytics, is a plus.
  • At least 5 years of progressive product management, data management, or data and analytics experience, including 3 years in data product/platform product management.
  • Demonstrated data product outcomes and adoption in global, matrixed, multi-country organizations.
  • Experience supervising, coaching, and developing product professionals.
  • Banking or financial services experience and knowledge of regulatory, audit, privacy, and data residency expectations.

Technical and product qualifications

  • Strong understanding of Azure lakehouse architecture, including Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, ADLS Gen2, and Azure Data Factory.
  • Knowledge of change data capture/event streaming, data contracts, medallion layers, producer/consumer design, and Power BI/SQL consumption.
  • Experience with discovery, prioritization, user research, WSJF or RICE, and OKRs; Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, and Power BI are named tools.
  • Experience developing business cases, securing funding, managing cost-to-serve, and cloud cost/FinOps.
  • Familiarity with governance, data quality, metadata, semantic layers, data mesh concepts, BIAN models, and control evidence.
  • Product management certifications are highly desirable; data and cloud certifications are assets. Exposure to AI/ML consumption is an asset.
  • Spanish is a strong asset for the International Banking footprint.

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