Raymond James Financial, Inc

Director, Enterprise Analytics & Data Products

Raymond James Financial, Inc$130K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in data, analytics, or AI-enabled solutions.
  • 5+ years of leadership experience at the director level or equivalent.
  • Strong financial services domain knowledge, especially in wealth management or brokerage.
  • Proven experience with analytics product capabilities and self-service analytics.
  • Experience shaping or operating data marketplaces and governed access models.
  • Practical fluency in AI, including improving data discovery and insight generation.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise data platforms, governance, and data quality.

Responsibilities

  • Own the vision and roadmap for enterprise analytics and data products.
  • Drive the data marketplace strategy for product cataloging and discoverability.
  • Manage the analytics tool capabilities roadmap to enhance data access and user experience.
  • Promote self-service access to trusted data and insights.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to create reusable data products based on decision-making needs.
  • Translate business needs into actionable requirements for analytics and engineering teams.
  • Leverage AI to enhance data discovery, analytics workflows, and user experiences.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Life insurance and critical illness coverage.
  • Disability benefits and retirement savings options.
  • Paid time off including vacation, holidays, and sick leave.
  • Parental leave options.
Full Job Description
Job Description Summary
We are seeking a Director-level Data Products and Analytics leader to help the enterprise maximize the value of its data through trusted, reusable, AI-enabled data products, governed self-service analytics, and a scalable data marketplace.
The leader will use AI as an enabler to improve discovery, consumption, automation, insight generation, and business value from data. They will shape the roadmap for enterprise analytics and AI-enabled data products while partnering with data engineering, analytics, governance, platform, and AI execution teams.
A key priority will be defining the vision and execution path for an enterprise data marketplace that makes trusted data products easier to find, understand, request, access, and use responsibly across the organization.
The ideal candidate brings strong data and analytics product leadership, financial services domain experience, practical AI fluency to drive outcomes, and the ability to align business demand with governed, scalable delivery.

Job Description

This is a hybrid role based in St. Petersburg, FL (minimum 50% in-office).

Responsibilities
  • Own the product vision, roadmap, prioritization, and execution alignment for enterprise analytics, AI-enabled data products, governed self-service analytics, and the enterprise data marketplace.
  • Define and drive the data marketplace strategy, including product cataloging, metadata, discoverability, access request patterns, usage transparency, adoption, and business value measurement.
  • Define and manage the analytics tool capabilities roadmap, ensuring platforms, tools, and user experiences evolve to make data and insights easier to discover, access, analyze, and consume.
  • Mature analytics capabilities and operating practices to promote governed, intuitive, self-service access to trusted data, insights, dashboards, analytics products, and AI-enabled decision support.
  • Partner with business stakeholders to understand decision-making needs, data consumption patterns, pain points, and opportunities to create reusable data products.
  • Translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements for data engineering, analytics, reporting, platform, governance, and AI execution teams.
  • Leverage AI to improve data discovery, insight generation, productivity, analytics workflows, documentation, and user experiences.
  • Work with AI, data science, and technology teams to shape practical AI-enabled capabilities built on trusted enterprise data.
  • Promote governed self-service access by ensuring data products are trusted, well-defined, secure, discoverable, and easy to consume.
  • Partner across business and technology teams to ensure data, analytics, AI-enabled capabilities, and marketplace access patterns are responsibly designed, appropriately controlled, and aligned to enterprise standards.
  • Define success metrics for data products, marketplace adoption, analytics consumption, quality, trust, reuse, business value, and stakeholder satisfaction.
  • Build trusted relationships with senior business and technology stakeholders and influence priorities across teams.


Required Experience and Qualifications
  • 10+ years of experience in data, analytics, business intelligence, data products, self-service analytics, AI-enabled solutions, or related disciplines.
  • 5+ years of leadership experience, preferably at Director level or equivalent.
  • Strong experience in wealth management, brokerage, advisory, asset management, or full-service financial services business with a strong understanding of the key data domains.
  • Proven experience leading data and analytics product capabilities such as data products, enterprise BI, self-service analytics, semantic layers, reporting platforms, or analytics modernization.
  • Must have experience with semantic layers, including ontology-driven semantic models, business-friendly metrics and definitions, and knowledge graph concepts that connect data, relationships, and business context for analytics and AI-enabled consumption.
  • Experience shaping or operating a data marketplace, data catalog, data product catalog, governed access model, or enterprise data consumption strategy.
  • Practical AI fluency, including how AI can improve data discovery, analytics, automation, requirements development, and business decision support.
  • Experience leveraging AI to maximize business value from enterprise data investments, including improving data discovery, consumption, insight generation, productivity, and adoption of data products.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise data platforms, data models, data quality, metadata, lineage, governance, access controls, and data consumption patterns.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into actionable requirements for data engineering, analytics, reporting, platform, governance, and AI delivery teams.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence business and technology teams.
  • Ability to operate from vision and roadmap through detailed execution, including getting hands-on as needed to analyze and profile data, clarify requirements, identify solution options, and convert business needs into actionable work for technology teams.


Technology, Product, Domain, and Solution Experience
  • Wealth management experience: Experience in a full-service wealth management, brokerage, advisory, or asset management business, with familiarity across advisor, client, household, account, portfolio, product, transaction, performance, supervision, risk, and service data domains.
  • Enterprise data platforms experience: Working knowledge of modern enterprise data platforms and patterns such as Snowflake, Redshift, Data Bricks, Data Lakehouse's, semantic layers with ontology, APIs, metadata, lineage, data quality, and governed data product architectures.
  • Analytics tooling experience: Experience shaping analytics capability roadmaps across tools such as Qlik, Tableau, ThoughtSpot, AWS Sagemaker, AWS Bedrock, Alteryx, Excel-based analytics, governed reporting, dashboards, KPI frameworks, metrics layers, semantic models, and self-service analytics platforms.
  • AI-enabled data products and marketplace experience: Experience defining or maturing AI-enabled data products, data product catalogs, data marketplaces, governed access models, product onboarding, metadata, business glossaries, certification, access workflows, usage transparency, adoption, and value measurement.
  • AI fluency: Practical understanding of how AI, machine learning, generative AI, natural language analytics, intelligent search, AI-assisted insight generation, summarization, anomaly detection, predictive analytics, and automation can increase the value and usability of trusted enterprise data.
  • Hands-on analysis and profiling: Ability to review data models, source tables, reports, dashboards, joins, keys, grain, relationships, business rules, data quality issues, usage patterns, and source-to-consumption gaps to validate assumptions and shape solution options.
  • Requirements-to-solution translation: Ability to convert business needs into actionable technology deliverables, including use cases, user stories, data requirements, analytics requirements, access requirements, controls, acceptance criteria, dependencies, testing considerations, and implementation sequencing.
  • Transformation and execution leadership: Experience leading analytics modernization, self-service BI transformation, data product strategy, data marketplace enablement, platform adoption, operating model change, stakeholder engagement, executive communication, adoption metrics, and measurable business value realization.


Education
Bachelor's: Business Administration, Bachelor's: Computer and Information Science, Bachelor's (Required)

Work Experience
General Experience - More than 15 years, Manager Experience - 10 to 15 years

Certifications

Travel
Less than 25%

Workstyle
Hybrid

The total compensation for this position includes base salary or wages, and may include components such as additional compensation (cash or equity), discretionary bonuses, or commissions. This position is eligible for a benefits package that may include medical, dental, and vision; life insurance; critical illness insurance and accident insurance; disability benefits; retirement savings; paid time off (including vacation, holidays, and sick leave); and parental leave. Eligibility for benefits and specific offerings may vary based on position and employment status. To view more details of the benefits offered, visit Myrjbenefits.com.

About Raymond James Financial, Inc

The Raymond James Technology and Communications Investment Banking Group is a committed and thoughtful partner that provides a full range of investment banking services and best practices. The group is comprised of experienced professionals that have extensive investment banking expertise. They leverage the industry expertise of Raymond James' award-winning research department. The group focuses on key sectors within technology and communications including: communications software, communication towers, defense electronics, enterprise software, internet infrastructure services, homeland security, IT services, mobile technology, semiconductors, software-as-a-service, telecommunications equipment, telecommunications infrastructure and support services, and wireless & wireline telecommunications services. They take pride in a client-centric approach to M&A, with focus on delivering independent solutions that creates value for the long term. The outcome of this unique approach may be seen in the successful transactions of their clients, including over 80 public offerings totaling $17 billion and over 85 strategic advisory transactions totaling over $5 billion in value since 1998.

Raymond James Financial, Inc Careers

Join the vibrant team at Raymond James Financial, Inc, a leading financial services company where innovation, leadership, and professional growth are at the forefront of our operations. As a hub of diversity and expertise, Raymond James offers unparalleled job opportunities that propel your career to new heights. Work You’ll Do At Raymond James Financial, Inc, you’ll collaborate with some of the most talented professionals in the financial industry. Our team is dedicated to providing strategic financial solutions and advice to our clients, helping them achieve their financial goals while fostering economic growth. With a culture rooted in leadership and diversity training, Raymond James is the perfect place to enhance your skills and thrive professionally. Join our market-leading team to assist a diverse range of clients, from individuals to large corporations, in navigating their financial planning with precision and innovative strategies. Lead in a role where your expertise directly influences the success and stability of our clients' financial futures. Work with a dynamic team of advisors and experts who are committed to pushing the boundaries of the financial sector through continuous innovation and exceptional client service. Raymond James Financial, Inc Job Opportunities Introducing the Raymond James Career Development Program We are committed to nurturing talent through our comprehensive career development program designed to provide every employee—from interns to senior leaders—with the tools and training necessary for success. Whether you’re just starting out with an internship or you’re a seasoned professional, Raymond James offers career paths that align with your ambitions and skills. Do Innovative Work Join a company where innovation is part of the daily routine. At Raymond James Financial, Inc, you’ll engage with cutting-edge financial tools and resources that keep you ahead in the industry. Our commitment to technology and innovation ensures that we stay at the forefront of financial services. Be Part of a Great Team Experience a collaborative environment where teamwork and networking are encouraged. Our inclusive culture supports diversity and offers benefits that ensure the well-being of all team members. At Raymond James, you’re not just an employee; you’re part of a family that values your unique contributions and supports your professional journey. Future-Proof Your Career Advance your career with Raymond James, where opportunities for growth are abundant. Benefit from our industry-leading training programs and gain certifications that will elevate your professional standing. With a focus on career longevity and satisfaction, Raymond James ensures that your professional journey is as rewarding as it is successful. Explore Discover the various positions available at Raymond James Financial, Inc that match your skills and interests. We are continuously hiring across multiple disciplines, eager to welcome passionate, curious, and solution-driven team players. Stay Connected Join Our Team Search open positions at Raymond James Financial, Inc and find the perfect match for your career aspirations. Explore a range of opportunities from financial advising to corporate roles that align with your professional skills and goals. Keep Up to Date Stay informed with the latest career tips, insider perspectives, and industry-leading insights—all from the professionals who thrive at Raymond James. Job Alert Emails Customize your subscription to receive job alerts, latest news, and insider tips tailored to your preferences. Discover the exciting and rewarding career opportunities waiting for you at Raymond James Financial, Inc. Join Raymond James Financial, Inc today and be part of a company that values innovation, leadership, and professional growth. Your future in the financial industry starts here.
Learn more about Raymond James Financial, Inc
Size
15,000 employees
Market Cap
$22.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$862 million
5 Year Trend
+11.6%
Revenue
$8.3 billion
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