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About the Role: Private Market and thematic Indices‘ data owner 

The Team:  

As a Private Markets Data Owner within the Global Index Management & Production Group (IMPG), you will be responsible for preparing, validating, and ensuring the accuracy of private equity, venture capital, private debt, and real asset data ahead of scheduled rebalances. You will work with datasets that include valuations, holdings, and transaction records, applying rigorous validation checks against trusted reference sources.  This position is part of the Data Excellence – Thematics group, which focuses on a wide array of datasets used for the maintenance and rebalances for S&P Thematic indices.  While this role will have a focus on Private Market data, flexibility and more generalized work across the team’s offering will be required. 

Responsibilities and Impact: 

As the key point of accountability for private market and thematic data quality, you will work closely with internal and external data providers to ensure our data mastering processes deliver trusted information for analytics, reporting, and decision-making. 

•  Own the private market data pipeline that powers investment analytics, portfolio monitoring, and strategic decision-making. 

•   Develop deep expertise in sourcing, validating, and mastering data from multiple internal and external sources. 

•  Collaborate with R&D, Operations and Technology to enhance data quality, structure, and usability. 

•  Influence data standar ds and governance frameworks used firmwide across private equity and thematic data. 

•  Gain end-to-end exposure to the private markets and thematic data lifecycle from ingestion and reconciliation through to golden source mastering and reporting. 

•  Shape and optimize validation processes that directly affect index rebalances.  

•  Build a career at the intersection of private markets, data operations, and data governance in a high-impact, visible role. 

Key Responsibilities 

1. Data Ownership & Stewardship 

• Act as the primary owner for private market investment datasets (fund, company, asset-level) across the data lifecycle. 

• Define, maintain, and enforce data standards, taxonomies, and hierarchies (e.g., entity, instrument, deal structures). 

• Oversee golden source mastering processes to ensure a single version of truth for private market data. 

2. Data Validation & Quality Control 

• Develop and execute robust validation rules for completeness, accuracy, and timeliness of data from internal and external sources. 

• Perform data reconciliation across multiple sources (administrators, managers, custodians, market data vendors). 

• Investigate and resolve data exceptions in coordination with operations and investment teams. 

3. Process & Governance 

• Collaborate with data automation teams to design automated validation and mastering workflows. 

• Maintain detailed data dictionaries, lineage, and governance documentation for private market and thematic datasets. 

• Contribute to data governance forums and