Data Products Practice Lead

We are looking for an experienced Data Products Practice Lead to join the Business Design Unit within the Wholesale Banking Chief Data Office (WB CDO).

As Data Products Practice Lead, you shape how Wholesale Banking defines, scales, and embeds data products as a core capability. You will build the common product discipline that enables data to be delivered consistently, reused effectively, and adopted with clear business value. By connecting product thinking, data management, architecture, and governance, you will help strengthen the maturity and impact of WB’s data product agenda across the organization.

The team

The Business Design Unit serves as the strategic design authority of the WB CDO organization. The team is responsible for translating ING’s global data strategy, frameworks, and regulatory requirements into coherent end-to-end target-state designs across Wholesale Banking.

The unit ensures that data, business, and technology architectures are aligned, standardized, and scalable, enabling consistent implementation across domains, platforms, and delivery teams. It helps deliver regulatory-compliant and future-proof solutions by embedding data management, governance, and control requirements by design. Through design principles, blueprints, and architectural oversight, the team guides tribes, product areas, and regions towards a unified operating model and supports the continuous evolution of ING’s target data landscape.

Roles and responsibilities

As Data Products Practice Lead, you will drive the standardization, adoption, and maturity of data products across Wholesale Banking.

• Define and steer the WB data product practice strategy, roadmap, and maturity agenda aligned with business priorities, WB CDO objectives, and enterprise standards.
• Establish data productization standards, lifecycle practices, playbooks, design criteria, and adoption gates to ensure consistent delivery across domains and tribes.
• Guide domains, tribes, Product Area Leads, and practitioners in applying product standards and scalable ways of working.
• Embed data quality, governance, metadata, regulatory, architecture, platform, and control requirements into product design and lifecycle management.
• Drive adoption and value realization through usage metrics, business value measurements, feedback loops, and impact assessments.
• Connect business domains, tribes, technology partners, architecture teams, and the Global CDO to align priorities and resolve cross-functional dependencies.
• Measure and continuously improve product practice maturity, including quality, reuse, adoption, delivery efficiency, user satisfaction, and practitioner capability.
• Promote a culture of product thinking and continuous improvement to strengthen the overall data product ecosystem within Wholesale Banking.

Success factors

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you remain curious. Keep learning. Take responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• A Master’s degree or equivalent in Data Management, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• More than 10 years of experience in data management, data architecture, product management, or data productization within complex business and technology environments.
• Deep expertise in data product practices, metadata management, data modelling, lifecycle management, and reusable product standards to drive consistency at scale.
• Proven experience defining, scaling, and maturing data product practices across domains, tribes, platforms, and federated delivery organizations.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, data quality, regulatory requirements, architecture standards, platforms, and controls, enabling trust by design.
• Experience translating business needs into scalable and consumable data products that deliver measurable commercial, regulatory, and operational value.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills to align business, technology, architecture, and data leadership stakeholders.
• An analytical, structured, and execution-oriented approach, balancing governance and standardization with pragmatic delivery.
• Excellent communication skills in English, with the ability to explain data product concepts, standards, and value outcomes to both technical and senior business audiences.
• A collaborative mindset and the ability to drive change across complex global organizations.

Rewards and benefits

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About us

ING is a global financial institution with a strong European base. We empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business through innovative financial solutions.

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