Technical Project Manager with Reference Data Toronto, ON Fulltime Opportunity

Role: Technical Project Manager with Reference Data

Location: Toronto ON- (Hybrid 4 days onsite in a week)

Job type: FTE

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end project management for Reference Data and Golden Source initiatives including planning execution and delivery.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across data governance IT operations and business teams to gather requirements and define project scope.
• Coordinate technical activities related to data modeling data quality data lineage and master data management.
• Oversee the migration integration and enhancements of Golden Source systems ensuring data accuracy consistency and compliance.
• Manage project timelines budgets and resources effectively providing regular status updates to senior management.
• Identify and mitigate project risks issues and dependencies proactively.
• Ensure adherence to data governance standards and best practices within project deliverables.
• Facilitate communication between technical teams (developers data stewards) and non-technical stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement in project delivery processes and technical solutions related to reference data.
• Support audit and regulatory requirements concerning master data.

Requirements:

Technical Qualifications:

• Capital Markets Domain Expertise:
• 3 years working with reference data domains in trading risk or back office functions.
• Strong understanding of Securities data feed from Bloomberg LSEG (Reuters).
• Strong understanding of various Asset classes and important attributes associated with each asset classes.
• Good understanding of instrument identifiers (ISIN CUSIP FIGI RIC) entity identifiers (LEI) and product taxonomy.
• Technical Skills:
• Proficient in SQL and relational data modeling concepts.
• Familiarity with using APIs and JSON XML structures.
• Familiarity with MDM and data governance platforms (e.g. Collibra DataHub) and metadata management best practices.
• Excellent Excel skills to perform various data analysis triage recons and build summaries.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Information Technology Finance or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of project management experience ideally within capital markets or financial institutions.
• Strong understanding of Reference Data concepts data governance and data quality frameworks.
• Proven experience in managing technology projects related to trading platforms risk systems or data warehouses.
• Familiarity with capital markets products (equities fixed income derivatives forex etc.).
• Experience with data management tools ETL processes and data integration platforms.
• PMP PMI-ACP Agile or other relevant project management certifications preferred.
• Excellent stakeholder management communication and leadership skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities.

Preferred but not required:

• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS Azure) and related data services.
• Exposure to financial services or trading environment.
• Understanding of regulatory standards impacting reference data management.
• Experience with data lineage and metadata management tools.

Thanks

Sanjay Kumar