Aladdin Data Risk, Controls & Governance, Director

Overview

Senior director role owning strategy, execution and governance of risk management, data controls and analytics stewardship across the Aladdin platform.

What you'll do

• Set strategic direction for Aladdin Data risk management frameworks and controls that are scalable, audit-defensible, commercially aligned and resilient.
• Lead complex, high-priority incident management with executive judgment, coordinating across Engineering, Product, Client Businesses, Compliance and senior leadership.
• Strengthen regulatory and policy compliance by partnering with Audit, Compliance, Legal and business leaders to translate expectations into controls and measurable outcomes.
• Own enterprise stewardship of critical analytics and risk data, ensuring it is governed, traceable, complete, accurate and fit for senior leadership, client, audit and regulatory use.
• Define and institutionalize data quality standards, executive metrics, validation frameworks and escalation mechanisms across the data lifecycle.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Product and Governance teams to embed automated validation, control checks, lineage and monitoring into data pipelines and workflows.
• Own and evolve analytics capabilities supported by the Aladdin Data platform, aligned to enterprise growth priorities.
• Influence modeling, product and engineering teams so new risk models and analytics meet business needs, control expectations and data quality standards before adoption.
• Lead large-scale testing, adoption readiness and insight generation for quantitative financial models and analytics.
• Define and drive a multi-year roadmap for process engineering, control maturity, automation and risk transformation.
• Operate as a senior integrator across Client Businesses, Product, Engineering, Compliance, Audit and enterprise governance teams, including climate, private credit and AI-enabled data capabilities.
• Build, coach and elevate talent while fostering an inclusive, accountable and high-performing team culture.
• Serve as a senior trusted advisor to clients and executive stakeholders on risk and data issues, including direct engagement on incidents and remediation.

What you'll need

• Extensive experience leading data risk, controls and governance functions within Aladdin or comparable enterprise-scale data and analytics platforms.
• Proven ability to own end-to-end enterprise risk and control frameworks across the data lifecycle, with clear accountability for design, adoption, monitoring, remediation and executive reporting.
• Deep understanding of investment data, risk analytics, portfolio modeling environments and platform-scale data operations.
• Demonstrated experience leading Internal Audit, regulatory and senior management engagements, producing defensible evidence and sustainable remediation plans.
• Demonstrated expertise in data privacy, protection and responsible data use frameworks, including GDPR and enterprise policy obligations.
• Track record designing, implementing and scaling enterprise policy frameworks and operating models.
• Proven ability to define and execute strategic initiatives that strengthen enterprise risk posture, including scaling control frameworks for new platforms, AI-driven data capabilities, acquisitions and emerging asset classes.
• Experience driving enterprise-wide data governance adoption, ownership clarity and operating model maturity across global stakeholder groups.
• Experience advancing monitoring, automation, issue detection and management reporting capabilities.
• Expertise designing and enforcing data quality controls, validation frameworks, lineage, metrics and issue management processes that are audit-ready.
• Strong leadership experience managing senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams in complex, matrixed environments.
• Exceptional ability to engage executive stakeholders, clients and control partners as a credible, strategic advisor.

Details

• Location: Gurugram, India.
• Hybrid work model: at least 4 days in the office per week, with up to 1 day working from home.