Head of Global Data Products

Head of Global Data Products

As a technology-enabled and digital-led bank, data is at the heart of everything we do. It powers how we measure risk, assess performance, and make decisions. To ensure we unlock the full value of our data, we must guarantee its completeness, accuracy, auditability, traceability, and protection. The Global Data Organisation serves as the first line of defense in securing robust data chains, working in close collaboration with all functions, business lines, and countries across the Bank. 

The Global Chief Data Office (CDO) plays a pivotal role in this mission. As a central organizational unit, the CDO partners with stakeholders across the enterprise to enable frictionless customer journeys, support ESG-driven innovation, and deliver data products that enhance decision-making. With emerging trends such as digital wallets on the horizon and increasing regulatory expectations around data governance, the CDO is evolving to meet these challenges head-on, ensuring our data remains both a strategic asset and a safeguarded resource. 

 
The opportunity 

As part of the Global CDO organization, the Center of Expertise for Global Data Products plays a pivotal role in shaping ING’s data product strategy and execution. Data Products are reusable, recognizable, and coherently grouped datasets built on a shared relational model and language. They are foundational to ING’s ambition to become a data-driven digital leader, enabling scalable, compliant, and high-quality data consumption across the Bank. 

The CoE leads the strategic development and orchestration of ING’s global data product roadmap, ensuring alignment with the broader data and technology vision, regulatory expectations, and MBB/MBB-1 priorities. The team drives the creation of enterprise-grade data products, ensuring reusability across entities and domains, and adherence to ING’s frameworks and controls. 

This role comes with a clear mandate to drive global alignment across entities and domains, ensuring commitment to shared priorities and timelines despite local capacity constraints. The CoE Lead will also navigate a critical organizational transition, balancing domain-specific integration with the need to maintain a strong global mandate within the CDO. Additionally, the role requires clarity and leadership across the delivery value chain, especially in light of reduced dedicated capacity and evolving connections to engineering capabilities. 

As CoE Lead for Global Data Products, you will steer a team of expert leads and orchestrators across business lines, domains, and countries, working closely with Retail CDO communities, Global Data Management, Scalable Data Services, and the BCBS239 Tribe. You will translate strategic priorities into scalable execution, embed metadata and master data capabilities, and foster one global data product roadmap. 

You report hierarchically to the Global CDO and are a member of the CDO Management Team. 

Your Responsibilities 

As CoE Lead for Global Data Products, you are responsible for: 

• Define and drive ING’s global data product strategy, ensuring alignment with the broader data and technology vision, regulatory priorities, and business objectives. 

• Steer the global data product roadmap, orchestrating delivery across business lines, domains, and countries, and ensuring consistent prioritization and progress reporting to senior leadership. 

• Enable the creation of reusable, enterprise-grade data products, selecting the right data models centrally and ensuring adherence to ING’s frameworks and controls. 

• Lead end-to-end orchestration of data product development through dedicated expert leads for Retail, Wholesale Banking, Tech, COO, Risk, and Finance. 

• Embed metadata and master data capabilities across the data product lifecycle, ensuring traceability, consistency, and value realization through tools like Collibra.