Product Owner

Job ID: 34942

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Operations

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 22 Jul 2025

**JOB SUMMARY**
- We are seeking a strategic and technically proficient Product Owner to lead the development and implementation of a centralized Data Store for Financial Crime Analytics. This role will play a pivotal part in transforming how our bank detects, analyzes, and responds to financial crime risks by enabling a modern, scalable, and secure data environment that serves stakeholders across Compliance, Risk, Audit, and Data Science teams.**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Strategy**
- Product Vision & Strategy: Define and communicate a clear product vision for the financial crime analytics data store aligned with business goals and regulatory requirements.
- Alignment with Business Goals: Ensure that the product strategy aligns with the broader business objectives and regulatory mandates.
- Roadmap Development: Develop and maintain a product roadmap that outlines key milestones, deliverables, and timelines.

**Business**
- Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the bridge between technology, compliance, analytics, and operations teams. Facilitate workshops and ongoing collaboration to gather requirements and feedback.
- Value Proposition: Clearly articulate the value proposition of the financial crime analytics data store to various stakeholders.
- Market Analysis: Conduct regular market analysis to stay updated on industry trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies.

**Processes**
- Agile Delivery: Drive agile delivery of the platform, ensuring timely releases and effective prioritization across ingestion pipelines, data models, and access layers.
- Backlog Management: Own, prioritize, and refine the product backlog; translate complex regulatory and analytical needs into user stories and data product features.
- Process Improvement: Continuously identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in product development and delivery.

**People & Talent**
- Team Collaboration: Foster a collaborative environment among cross-functional teams, including data architects, engineers, and governance teams.
- Skill Development: Identify skill gaps and work with HR to provide necessary training and development opportunities for team members.
- Performance Management: Set clear performance expectations and provide regular feedback to team members to ensure high performance and accountability.

**Risk Management**
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure the platform meets banking regulatory standards (e.g., AML, KYC, FATF, GDPR) and incorporates appropriate controls for data access, lineage, and quality.
- Risk Mitigation: Identify potential risks related to financial crime analytics and develop mitigation strategies.
- Incident Management: Establish and maintain processes for incident management, ensuring quick resolution of any issues that arise.

**Governance**
- Data Governance: Work closely with data governance teams to define the structure, metadata, and security standards of the data store.
- Regulatory Engagement: Engage with regulatory bodies and auditors to ensure compliance and address any concerns related to the financial crime analytics platform.
- Policy Adherence: Ensure that all activities and processes adhere to internal policies and external regulatory requirements.

**Regulatory & Business Conduct**
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

**Key Stakeholders**
- CIB Conduct & Control team
- Regional COO teams
- Client Management Country and Regional teams
- Other CIB COO teams
- FCSO team
- FCE2E CPO and project team

**Other Responsibilities**
- Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in CIB Operations Data Insights and Analytics in Singapore; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.- Proven Experience as a Product Owner:

- Demonstrated experience in the financial services sector, preferably within compliance, risk, or data platforms

Strong Understanding of Financial Crime Domains:

- In-depth knowledge of AML, fraud, sanctions screening, or KYC processes

Experience in Data or Analytics Platform Builds:

- Proven track record in leading the development of data lakes, data warehouses, or similar platforms.
- Added advantage of experience with modern cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Familiarity with Data Governance and Compliance:

- Understanding of data governance principles, metadata m