Senior Vice President, Data Management
Eleven Recruiting - Santa Monica, CA
Hiring: Senior Vice President, Data Management Company: Eleven Recruiting Location: Santa Monica, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-16 16:41:14 Target Skills & Keywords : Data Warehouse, Databricks, ELT, ETL, Fixed Income, Informatica, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft PowerPoint, Portfolio Management, Python, SQL, Snowflake, Zoom About the job Experience: •12+ years of progressive experience in data management, data governance, or data operations, with meaningful time in a senior leadership role. Required Skills: •Build & Lead the Data Management Function •Define the mandate, operating model, and organizational design for a centralized Data Management team encompassing data stewardship, data governance and data quality. •Recruit, hire, and develop the team, including stewards, analysts and senior individual contributors, across all relevant data domains. •Establish a robust performance framework, build career pathways and cultivate a team dynamic that attracts and retains top data talent. •Serve as the senior point of accountability for data across the firm, partnering closely with Technology, Operations, Compliance, Finance and Investment teams. •Stand up an enterprise data governance framework covering data ownership, lineage, quality standards, issue management and audit controls. •Implement practical, scalable data controls across the firm and contribute to ongoing improvements in governance, oversight, and data architecture. •Define and assign data domain ownership across financial instruments, reference / security master data, transactional data, and investor / fund-level data. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; advanced degree (MBA, MS) preferred. •Demonstrated success building and scaling data functions from the ground up including organizational design, hiring and culture-building. •Comprehensive expertise in credit instrument — high yield bonds, leveraged loans, CLOs, structured credit, and private credit — and their associated data complexities. •Direct experience partnering with external consultancies on large-scale data transformation programs. •Strong proficiency in SQL; working familiarity with Python or similar scripting languages for data analysis and quality validation. •Solid functional working knowledge of modern data warehouse and lakehouse platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) and ETL/ELT tooling, sufficient to partner effectively with Technology. •Operational familiarity with portfolio management systems (e.g., Charles River, Aladdin) and their data integration requirements. •Knowledge of data governance platforms and metadata management tools (e.g., Collibra, Informatica). •Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, for senior-level reporting and executive presentations. •Exceptional executive communication and influencing skills able to translate data complexity into clear business impact for investment, finance, and board-level audiences. Compensation: •$250,000 - $350,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!