Product Manager, Index Data Product

The FTSE Russell business is establishing a Product team focused on developing target state Index and Data capabilities to transform the core Index Platforms and scale growth for FTSE Russell.

The Product Manager, Index Data Product, will drive strategic and cross-functional initiatives to build world class scalable Data capabilities for our Index Platforms.

The key responsibility will be to act as a product owner for technology to build fit-for-purpose software solutions for the Index Data Product capability and requires the candidate to successfully interact with a wide stakeholder group, designing solutions, owning specifications used for development, and ensuring sound execution.  The role will successfully interact with a wide stakeholder group, designing solutions, owning specifications used for development, and ensuring sound execution. Serving as a bridge between FTSE Russell customers, business stakeholders, other technology capabilities within FTSE Russell and outside FTSE Russell, they will input into the Data roadmap in line with broader Index Platform Strategy and Vision.  Critical to the role is a strong Agile and collaborative mindset, working well across many diverse groups and balancing outcomes that help drive capability excellence but also FTSE Russell goals.

Responsibilities

• Set strategy, vision, and mission of their capability area, communicating that across FTSE Russell to wide stakeholder groups.
• As product owner, develop proactive relationships with senior leaders across business units and technologists to design appropriate solutions, foster discussions and decisions around product & feature definition, feasibility, scoping, and development.
• Own mid- to large-size transformational projects that aim to increase and broaden FTSE Russell’s product offering with quality data, improve quality of data, including being responsible for business and data analysis, development and refinement of strategies, and definition of current and future capability requirements.
• Work with the other Capability Product Leads and Product Owners, as well as other stakeholders, in identifying capabilities required for automating, managing, maintaining and augmenting current data processing and data products as well as future data product expansion.
• Define interfaces with key Index Platform capabilities and end users to provide data products to index processes and reporting/distribution.
• Drive migration of existing data domains into the new Data Capability and integration with the new Index platform.
• Define and drive adoption of control gates at appropriate stages of data processing with quality and scalability goals to ensure accurate, timely, production quality data is published in Data Products.

Key Behaviours

• Articulate, creative, energetic person able to work alongside the team
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills; and experience with executive storytelling.
• Ability to communicate with diverse audiences, ranging from highly technical partners to business clients
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to think logically to solve business problems.
• Ability to establish credibility and build strong, confident, collaborative relationships with business and technology stakeholders including external parties, at all levels
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines without compromising quality
• Results driven, self-motivated, problem solving, and solutions oriented; takes pride in his/her work
• Demonstrates a can-do attitude, exhibits self-confidence, leadership, and adaptability to business change
• Excellent organisational, negotiation, presentation, and time management skills; ability to manage business expectations
• Ability to keep abreast of and understand technology trends, see how they impact your roadmap, and how they drive innovation

Profile/Skills

• 7+ years of relevant work experience in product ownership / technology / business analysis / program management / application delivery in banking or financial domain. Experience in Indexing / portfolio management (desired)
• Extensive knowledge of market data, security reference data, primarily equities, bonds, mortgages, etc., security pricing, FX and interest rates, corporate actions, company/issuer reference data and industry classification and company fundamentals.
• Exposure to how data is used within indexes and/or how indexes and index data are used by financial institutions (Fund, Portfolio or Wealth Management)
• Experience in Data Analysis, Logical Data Modelling, Data Transformation including Business Transformation and Validation, and Data Management
• Experience driving large-scale technology programs and designing digital transformation strategies.
• Experience in portfolio construction, performance and risk calculations, optimization techniques and statistical analysis (desired)
• Understanding of investment, business and technical perspective, ability to solve business challenges through technology.
• Experience with Agile delivery and transformation

• Experience with SaaS (Software as a Service), Cloud, Test-Driven Development (beneficial)

ABOUT US:

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open-access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

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