Head of Data

About us

An award-winning Fintech organization with a dedicated team of 500+ professionals across the globe. With more than 15 offices across the world, we are a people centric company which prides itself on being product oriented for customer success. As we continue the journey of scaling up our business, we are passionate about expanding our multicultural and diverse workforce.

We can offer excellent opportunities to develop your career path and provide you with the tools and support to be successful in your journey with us.

Zeal group of companies (collectively Zeal Group) is a business portfolio comprising regulated financial institutions (trading as ZFX) and fintech companies specializing in multi-asset liquidity solutions in regulated markets backed by proprietary technology, with a presence in all major global locations.

Responsibilities:

• Team leadership: Lead, mentor and grow a team of BI, BSA, analysts and data Engineer.
• Data infrastructure: Oversee and design and implementation of a scalable data infrastructure, including dashboard, self-service tool, data pipelines, data platform, and data warehouse
• Analytics and insights: Lead the development of data-driven solutions and ensure the effective utilization of data resources to provide actionable insights and support strategic decisions.
• ML platform: Design and implement the machine learning platform to provide scalable, performant and efficient solutions for models and algorithms.
• Data governance and quality: Define and implement data governance policies and procedures to ensure data quality, security, and compliance with regulations
• Strategy and vision: Develop a comprehensive data strategy and vision that aligns with the company's overall business objectives.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams (marketing, sales, finance, trading, compliance, product, HR, leadership) across the globe to identify challenges and opportunities where data can provide a critical advantage
• Innovation: Drive data-driven innovation, including the exploration and adoption of new technologies like artificial intelligence.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree or above
• At least 8 years of experience in Data
• At least 5 years of experience in a leadership role
• High proficiency in Mandarin and English. Cantonese is a plus.
• Deep understanding of data warehouse elements, including data infrastructure and data products.
• Deep understanding of business intelligence.
• Working experience of data on cloud
• Working experience managing team members cross boarder
• Working experience on data governance, including GDPR, PII data classification
• Working experience setting machine learning platforms and MLOPS will be a plus
• Working experience with Google Cloud Platform, especially products like bigquery, dataproc, gcs will be a plus
• Working experience with PowerBI, redash and metabase will be a plus