Job Description

Job Description

Role: Technical Project Manager with Reference Data

Location:
Toronto, ON
- (Hybrid 4 days onsite in a week)

Job type
FTE

Responsibilities:
Lead end-to-end project management for Reference Data and Golden Source initiatives, including planning, execution, and delivery. Collaborate with stakeholders across data governance, IT, operations, and business teams to gather requirements and define project scope. Coordinate technical activities related to data modeling, data quality, data lineage, and master data management.

Oversee the migration, integration, and enhancements of Golden Source systems, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and compliance. Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources effectively, providing regular status updates to senior management. Identify and mitigate project risks, issues, and dependencies proactively. Ensure adherence to data governance standards and best practices within project deliverables. Facilitate communication between technical teams (developers, data stewards) and non-technical stakeholders.

Drive continuous improvement in project delivery processes and technical solutions related to reference data. Support audit and regulatory requirements concerning master data.

Requirements:

Technical

Qualifications:
Capital Markets Domain Expertise: 3 years working with reference‐data domains in trading, risk or back‐office functions. Strong understanding of Securities data feed from Bloomberg, LSEG (Reuters). Strong understanding of various Asset classes and important attributes associated with each asset classes.



Good understanding of instrument identifiers (ISIN, CUSIP, FIGI, RIC), entity identifiers (LEI) and product taxonomy. Technical

Skills:
Proficient in SQL and relational data‐modeling concepts. Familiarity with using APIs and JSON, XML structures. Familiarity with MDM and data‐governance platforms (e.g. Collibra, DataHub) and metadata‐management best practices. Excellent Excel skills to perform various data analysis, triage recons and build summaries.

Required

Qualifications:

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Finance, or related field. Minimum of 10 years of project management experience, ideally within capital markets or financial institutions. Strong understanding of Reference Data concepts, data governance, and data quality frameworks. Proven experience in managing technology projects related to trading platforms, risk systems, or data warehouses.

Familiarity with capital markets products (equities, fixed income, derivatives, forex, etc.). Experience with data management tools, ETL processes, and data integration platforms. PMP, PMI-ACP, Agile, or other relevant project management certifications preferred. Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills. Ability to work in a fast-paced workplace with multiple priorities.

Preferred, but not required: Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and related data services. Exposure to financial services or trading environment. Understanding of regulatory standards impacting reference data management. Experience with data lineage and metadata management tools. Thanks, Sanjay Kumar sanjay.kumar@zodiac -solutions.com

📌 Technical Project Manager with Reference Data (Toronto)
🏢 Zodiac Solutions
📍 Toronto