Head of Data Strategy
Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
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Job Summary
Curinos empowers financial institutions to put customers at the center of every decision. Our AI-first platform transforms proprietary data advanced analytics and deep financial services expertise into timely recommendations - delivered right where teams work. The result: confident decisions stronger customer relationships and lasting profitable growth.
Curinos operates under a hybrid modality and has office locations in New York Chicago Boston Toronto and London. This role is open to hybrid/ remote candidates based in the United States.
Job Description
Curinos is looking for a skilled and technically strong Head of Data Strategy for our Curinos One Platform. Reporting to Curinos Chief Technology Product & AI Officer the role focuses on developing and implementing the path towards assembling a comprehensive view of bank customers across consumer small business and commercial banking while ensuring strong governance privacy and regulatory compliance across all data assets. This will involve combining data from 1st 2nd and 3rd party sources and effectively navigating identity management to support AI-enabled outcome-focused decision intelligence for banks through the platform. The role will also jointly own the strategic data partnership agenda; working with our business incubation team to identify and advance partner relationships that expand Curinos data ecosystem accelerate product innovation strengthen Curinos One adoption and create durable commercial advantage.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead Curinos enterprise data strategy spanning acquisition and connection; aligning with business product AI and platform product roadmaps and objectives
- Remove friction from the growth of our data assets by leveraging awareness of data federation zero-copy access through the latest data technologies such as Databricks SnowFlake BigQuery; Open Banking Data protocols and APIs; and key strategic partnerships
- Establish best practices for data ingestion normalization enrichment and distribution across complex financial services ecosystems
- Partner with Curinos business development and incubation resources to lead a portfolio of strategic data and platform partner opportunities setting priorities building executive-level engagement and translating partner capabilities into product AI and commercial growth opportunities.
- Develop strategic and economic business cases for data partnerships including data quality exclusivity defensibility integration complexity regulatory fit and long-term product applicability
- Drive strategy for PII management identity resolution and data linkage across customer internal and third-party datasets
- Engage with customers and partners across banks fintechs credit bureaus payment networks and data providers to shape data acquisition and integration strategies
- Ensure alignment with regulatory requirements including data privacy information security and model risk management frameworks
- Own data governance standards metadata management lineage tracking and data quality frameworks
- Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to standards such as GLBA CCPA and emerging regulatory expectations
- Serve as a thought leader internally and externally on data strategy trends within financial services
Salary Range: $200000- $250000 USD (plus bonus)
Desired Skills & Expertise
- 10 years of experience in data strategy data architecture or enterprise data leadership roles
- Strong technical expertise in modern cloud data platforms (e.g. Databricks BigQuery Snowflake) and data engineering patterns
- Deep understanding of the financial services data ecosystem including banks payment providers connectivity platforms (e.g. Plaid) and data vendors
- Experience identifying evaluating negotiating or scaling strategic data partnerships preferably involving third-party financial consumer identity payments or open banking data assets
- Experience working with sensitive financial data including PII and implementing identity resolution frameworks
- Working knowledge of regulatory frameworks such as GLBA CCPA GDPR and banking supervision expectations related to data and model risk
- Familiarity with AI/ML data requirements feature engineering and model data pipelines
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills across technical and business audiences
- Experience working in a fast-paced product-driven and AI-enabled organization preferred
Why work at Curinos
- Competitive benefits including a range of Financial Health and Lifestyle benefits to choose from
- Flexible working options including home working flexible hours and part time options depending on the role requirements please ask!
- Unlimited PTO policy floating holidays volunteering days and a day off for your birthday
- Learning and development tools to assist with your career development
- Work with industry leading Subject Matter Experts and specialist products
- Regular social events and networking opportunities
- Collaborative supportive culture including an active DE&I program
- Employee Assistance Program which provides expert third-party advice on wellbeing relationships legal and financial matters as well as access to counselling services
Applying
We know that sometimes the perfect candidate doesnt exist and that people can be put off applying for a job if they dont meet all the requirements. If youre excited about working for us and have relevant skills or experience please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need!
If you need any adjustments to support your application such as information in alternative formats special requirements to access our buildings or adjusted interview formats pleasecontact us at and well do everything we can to help.
Inclusivity at Curinos
We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such Curinosis proud to be an Equal Opportunity do not discriminate on the basis of race color ancestry national origin religion or religious creed mental or physical disability medical condition genetic information sex (including pregnancy childbirth and related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age marital status military or veteran status citizenship or other protected characteristics.
Required Experience:
Director
