Vice President - Product Delivery - Account & Reference Data Platform

Role Overview:

You are a strategic thinker passionate about driving solutions in Account & SSI Reference Data product delivery. As an Account & SSI Reference Data Product Delivery Professional within our Change & Strategy Team, you will be responsible for setting and improving our organizational objectives and ensuring their consistent accomplishment.

Total Experience: 10-15 years

Job Responsibilities:

- Lead and develop a team of Product Delivery Leads, setting clear accountabilities, coaching delivery practices, and building a strong delivery culture.

- Own end-to-end delivery of capabilities and releases across definition, build, testing, release, stabilization, adoption, and continuous improvement aligned to product vision and roadmap.

- Translate strategic outcomes into executable delivery by partnering with Product Managers, Product Owners, and Technology to define epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, sequencing, and integrated plans.

- Shape delivery-ready backlogs through prioritization, refinement, dependency management, and cross-functional alignment across Product, Technology, Operations, and Control partners.

- Influence senior stakeholders by articulating delivery outcomes, release health, trade-offs, customer impact, and realized value.

- Lead release planning and delivery governance by owning scope, milestones, readiness criteria, implementation/cutover activities, and post-release support.

- Ensure operational readiness and controls for each release, including training, communications, support model/runbooks, control requirements, and measurable success criteria.

- Establish and run an effective delivery cadence enabling timely decisions, clear ownership, and consistent progress.

- Coordinate delivery across interconnected capabilities and teams by actively managing dependencies and cross-team impacts while maintaining delivery accountability.

- Monitor release health and delivery confidence by managing RAID, stakeholder alignment, escalation paths, and blocker resolution.

- Drive adoption, feedback loops, and continuous improvement by tracking customer outcomes and post-implementation performance.

Required Qualifications:

- Extensive Vice President level experience leading product delivery, product transformation, and complex capability delivery in Financial Services.

- Proven cross-functional delivery track record across Product, Technology, Operations, and Control organizations.

- Strong practical Agile delivery expertise with deep understanding of product lifecycle, operating models, and delivery governance.

- Demonstrated backlog and scope shaping skills.

- Strong delivery leadership and risk management capabilities.

- Outcomes and value orientation with experience defining and tracking measurable success criteria.

- Executive communication and leadership skills with strong analytical/problem-solving capability and senior stakeholder influence.

- Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Office.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Domain knowledge in Investment Banking, Securities Services, Reference Data, and/or the Settlement lifecycle.

- Transformation delivery experience across strategic data initiatives, platform change, and/or operating model change.

- Practical experience with measurement frameworks.

- Certifications such as Lean Six Sigma, Agile/SAFe, PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent.

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Business, Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related discipline.

- Demonstrated ability to identify opportunities for AI and automation integration within operational workflows.

Location: Bengaluru.

Job Type: Permanent, Fulltime.

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