VP, Specialist, Data Management, Transformation & Data, Group COO

About the role

DBS is hiring a VP, Specialist, Data Management, Transformation & Data within its Group COO business function, based in DBS Asia Central. The team focuses on nurturing the culture of the World's Best Bank and the World's Best Digital Bank, combining design thinking and experimentation with a cross-disciplinary approach to innovation. The role covers enterprise data governance, standards and tooling.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, implement and maintain data management standards and frameworks that enable data usage while mitigating risks across the end-to-end data lifecycle.
• Create playbooks and learning materials, and establish tooling so units can implement data management standards at scale, covering data ownership, data quality, metadata and lineage.
• Partner with units and locations to operationalise the enterprise data governance operating model, incorporating implementation learnings, stakeholder feedback and evolving regulatory expectations.
• Track data governance outcomes, initiative progress, risks and dependencies.
• Act as Data Champion for data owned by the T&D department, applying data governance practices across its data domains.
• Support the bank's participation in regulatory and industry initiatives on data and AI governance, coordinating inputs, preparing discussion materials and tracking commitments and follow-up actions.
• Coordinate responses to data governance reviews and audits, including stakeholder inputs, supporting evidence, issue tracking and timely remediation of findings or control gaps.

Required profile

• Degree in a relevant field such as computer science, engineering, mathematics or data science.
• Strong experience defining and operationalising enterprise data management frameworks and associated controls, including data quality, data issue management, metadata and data lineage.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data risk management practices and data governance regulations.
• Experience with enterprise data governance tooling and AI capabilities to scale data governance practices.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, able to influence and challenge constructively.
• Ability to deliver engaging presentations and articulate complex topics to a broad audience.
• Ability to foster a data accountability mindset and develop data literacy.