Senior Director, Product Owner - Entity Data & Knowledge Graph (London)

Senior Director, Product Owner – Entity Data & Knowledge Graph in our London office. Fitch Solutions is a leading provider of insights, data and analytics. It informs investment strategies, strengthens risk management capabilities and helps identify strategic opportunities. Its analysts, lawyers, journalists and economists offer in-depth views on credit markets and risk, individual credits, ESG, developed and emerging markets, and industry sectors.

About the Team: Platform Products is responsible for building shared capabilities that can be leveraged across the organization. We operate a product-led model focused on identifying common business needs, building reusable solutions once and enabling business units to adopt them at scale. At the heart of this is Fitch's entity and reference data foundation: the identifiers, symbology, hierarchies and relationships that connect our data across products and make it usable by clients, applications and AI.

Our mission is to accelerate innovation, improve consistency and reduce duplication by delivering platform capabilities across Fitch Solutions. While business units focus on domain expertise and commercial differentiation, Platform Products develops the foundational capabilities that support them all, including the entity services and knowledge graph that link Fitch's data together.

This is a senior individual contributor role for a hands-on product owner. You will own a portfolio of platform data products centered on entity resolution, symbology and knowledge graph capabilities, and you will work close to the detail. That means defining data models and ontologies, writing requirements, working through data quality problems, validating solutions with engineering and getting capabilities into production. You will lead through influence rather than line management. You will shape the vision and roadmap, align senior stakeholders, and steer cross-functional squads of engineers, architects and analysts to deliver scalable, reusable products that create measurable value across the business.

How You'll Make an Impact:

• Own the vision, strategy and roadmap for Fitch's shared entity and reference data capabilities.
• Get hands-on with the data. Define entity and relationship models, ontologies and metadata standards; profile and investigate data; shape matching and linkage logic; and write detailed requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Build deep expertise in Fitch's data, products, underlying architecture and integration points, and use it to guide investment decisions and how the platform evolves.
• Deliver entity resolution and matching services that business units and clients can use to identify, link and enrich data consistently.
• Make Fitch's data AI-ready. Expose entities and relationships to LLMs and AI agents through graph services, APIs and emerging protocols.
• Define and track data quality measures such as accuracy, coverage, fill rates and timeliness.
• Own the product backlog in Jira, balancing strategic initiatives, business demand, technical enablement, risk and scalability.
• Run build-vs-buy and partner evaluations across data vendors, graph technologies and cloud platforms.
• Lead entity and reference data governance, covering identifier lifecycle, data model change control, standards and stewardship across domains.
• Drive adoption across business units by navigating competing priorities, resolving cross-portfolio dependencies and blockers.
• Sponsor validation, user acceptance testing and release readiness.
• Produce and champion clear product documentation, including data dictionaries, model specifications, process flows and release communications.
• Represent Platform Products in senior leadership discussions.
• Strengthen the product operating model by introducing practices that improve discovery, prioritization, delivery and measurement.

You May Be a Good Fit If:

• You have 10+ years of experience in product ownership, product management or data product roles.
• You have deep expertise in entity and reference data.
• You have a proven record of building entity resolution, matching and deduplication capabilities at scale.
• You have hands-on experience with knowledge graphs or graph databases.
• You have substantial experience at a financial information provider, data and analytics firm, exchange or financial institution.
• You have delivered shared data capabilities used across multiple business units or client segments.
• You have led cross-functional squads through influence in a matrixed organization.
• You have strong knowledge of Agile and product-led delivery practices and tools such as Jira.
• You use data quality metrics, client insight and business outcomes to guide prioritization and measure success.
• You have exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• You have a bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.

What Would Make You Stand Out:

• You have built or run an entity graph, symbology service or master data platform.
• You have experience with industry identifier schemes and open data standards.
• You have a background in credit, credit risk or private markets data.
• You combine sound commercial judgment with a customer-centric perspective.
• You have knowledge of Fitch systems, products, data or client workflows.
• You show initiative, intellectual curiosity and a commitment to continuous learning.

Why Choose Fitch:

• Hybrid Work Environment: 3 days a week in office required.
• A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs.
• Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs.
• Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings.
• Supportive Parenting Policies: Family-friendly policies.
• Inclusive Work Environment: A collaborative workplace where all voices are valued.
• Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days and matched funding for donations.

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