Team Leader – Fixed Income Reference Data

About the Role

We are looking for a motivated and hands-on Team Leader to lead our Fixed Income Reference Data team in Vellore. In this role, you will be responsible for the accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of fixed income reference data.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of reference data analysts, setting clear goals and conducting regular performance reviews.
• Allocate work effectively, manage capacity, and ensure coverage across global time zones.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive team culture built on accountability and continuous learning.
• Identify training needs and build team capability in data tools, domain knowledge, and automation.
• Oversee the setup, maintenance, and validation of fixed income security master data across government bonds, corporate bonds, municipals, agencies, securitized products, and money market instruments.
• Monitor data quality through KPIs, SLAs, and exception reports, and ensure timely resolution of data breaks.
• Act as an escalation point for complex data queries from internal stakeholders.
• Identify manual, repetitive processes and drive efficiency through automation, SQL-based controls, and Gen AI solutions.
• Lead or contribute to strategic projects such as system migrations, vendor onboarding, data quality frameworks, and new product setup.
• Build and maintain dashboards that give stakeholders clear visibility into data quality, volumes, and team performance.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and document process changes and best practices.
• Partner with global teams across front office, operations, risk, technology, and compliance to understand and meet data requirements.
• Communicate clearly with senior stakeholders on performance, risks, issues, and project updates.
• Ensure adherence to data governance policies, controls, and audit requirements.
• Maintain and update SOPs, workflows, and documentation.
• Coordinate shifts and staffing based on workload.