Director - Surveillance Data & Ecosystem Monitoring

Work Location:
New York, New York, United States of America

Hours:
40

Line of Business:
Technology Solutions

Pay Detail:
200000 - 235000 USD

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Job Description:

Preferred Qualifications

Summary:

The Director of Compliance Technology - Surveillance Data is a senior technology leadership role responsible for ensuring the quality, completeness, lineage, and availability of data used for transaction surveillance across asset classes. This role will lead data re-piping and remediation initiatives, identify and close data gaps that materially impact surveillance efficacy, and design instrumentation and metrics that enable proactive monitoring of the end-to-end surveillance ecosystem. As a key leader within a multi-year, regulator-driven remediation program, the Director will partner closely with Compliance, Front Office Technology, and the Central Data Office (CDO) to deliver sustainable, defensible data controls that meet evolving regulatory expectations.

Responsibilities:

Surveillance Data Strategy & Remediation

• Define and execute the surveillance data strategy, ensuring critical trade, order, and lifecycle data is complete, accurate, traceable, and timely for all surveillance use cases.
• Identify data gaps and quality issues that impair alert generation, scenario coverage, or investigative workflows, and prioritize remediation based on regulatory and risk impact.
• Drive root-cause remediation of data issues through coordinated delivery with Front Office Technology, Market Data, and Central Data Office teams rather than tactical workarounds.
• Lead data re-piping initiatives to onboard authoritative sources, modernize data flows, and retire legacy or non-compliant feeds.

• Design and implement instrumentation, controls, and metrics that provide transparency into the health of the trade surveillance ecosystem, including ingestion completeness, timeliness, reconciliation breaks, and downstream impact.
• Establish leading indicators and KRIs that enable proactive detection of data degradation before it impacts surveillance coverage or regulatory obligations.
• Ensure metrics are available for executive reporting, regulatory engagement, and audit defensibility.

• Act as a senior technology lead for regulatory commitments and remediation milestones, ensuring data-related deliverables are met with sustainable solutions.
• Partner with Compliance and Regulatory Strategy teams to translate regulatory findings into concrete data and technology outcomes.
• Ensure surveillance data solutions are aligned with enterprise standards for data governance, lineage, controls, and SDLC discipline.

• Serve as a strategic partner to Compliance Surveillance leadership, Front Office stakeholders, and Enterprise Data organizations.
• Lead and mentor a team of technologists, data engineers, and analysts responsible for surveillance data delivery and controls.
• Coordinate across multiple delivery workstreams to ensure consistent implementation of data quality, validation, and monitoring frameworks.

• 15+ years of technology leadership experience within financial services, with deep exposure to trade surveillance, transaction monitoring, or compliance platforms.
• Proven experience leading large-scale data remediation or re-platforming initiatives in partnership with Front Office and central data organizations.
• Strong understanding of trade lifecycle data, data quality management, reconciliations, and lineage in support of regulatory controls.
• Demonstrated ability to design metrics, dashboards, and control frameworks that support proactive risk management and regulatory oversight.
• Experience operating in regulatory-driven programs with high expectations for auditability, traceability, and sustainability.
• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex data and technology risks for senior stakeholders and regulators.

• Role generally supports a significant business area, product group, Enterprise Platform, Service or Capability under a Segment CIO or technology functional area.
• Sets work direction at an operational level, works autonomously in the management of the unit and collaborates with other business or technology leaders to establish and execute on common goals with a medium to longer term business perspective
• Expert knowledge of the business and bank technology standards (e.g., infrastructure, architecture, processes, applications) from a strategic perspective and managing/ directing teams and projects
• Sound knowledge of external competition, emerging, industry and/or market trends in relation to own business
• Integrator role that oversees various technology functions / resources to deliver business technical solutions or shared service
• Oversees a sizable and varied team of technology professionals (e.g., up to 50+ consisting of Application Developers, Solutions Designers, Business Systems Analysts, Specialists, and/or Project Managers) in the end to end delivery of complex projects, system enhancements / applications and/or application or service management
• Directs/manages large-scale applications/ projects across multiple product lines/ businesses, involving significant scope and complexity
• Understands strategic direction (including financials) and champions alliances to benefit the Bank and/or department; advocates for operational improvements to enhance the divisions value to the organization
• Role typically reports to an Executive role

• Undergraduate degree or Technical Certificate.
• Graduate degree, preferred.
• 10+ years related experience.
• Expert knowledge of the business and bank technology standards (e.g., infrastructure, architecture, processes, applications) from a strategic perspective and managing/ directing teams and projects.
• Sound knowledge of external competition, emerging, industry and/or market trends in relation to own business.
• Understands strategic direction (including financials) and champions' alliances to benefit the Bank and/or department; advocates for operational improvements to enhance the divisions value to the organization.

• Domestic Travel: Occasional
• International Travel: Never
• Performing sedentary work: Continuous
• Performing multiple tasks: Continuous
• Operating standard office equipment: Continuous
• Responding quickly to sounds: Occasional
• Sitting: Continuous
• Standing: Occasional
• Walking: Occasional
• Moving safely in confined spaces: Occasional
• Lifting/Carrying (under 25 lbs.): Occasional
• Lifting/Carrying (over 25 lbs.): Never
• Squatting: Occasional
• Bending: Occasional
• Kneeling: Never
• Crawling: Never
• Climbing: Never
• Reaching overhead: Never
• Reaching forward: Occasional
• Pushing: Never
• Pulling: Never
• Twisting: Never
• Concentrating for long periods of time: Continuous
• Applying common sense to deal with problems involving standardized situations: Continuous
• Reading, writing and comprehending instructions: Continuous
• Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing: Continuous