Data Modeler (Capital Markets) - NC

Job#: 3031334

Job Description:

Client: Financial Services

Team: Enterprise Data / Capital Markets Engineering

Job Title: Senior Data Modeler / Domain Model Lead - Enterprise CDM (Capital Markets)

Location: Charlotte, NC - Uptown | Hybrid (3x/week onsite)

Contract Length: Through end of 2026 (strong potential to extend/convert)

Rate: $90-100/hr

Interview Process: 1 round - 30 min MS Teams

Top Requirements:

7+ years of data modeling/engineering experience

Strong capital markets domain knowledge (front-to-back lifecycle)

Experience building or owning a Common Domain Model (CDM) / canonical data model

Cross-asset exposure (rates, FX, credit, equities, etc.)

Strong stakeholder management across Trading, Risk, Ops, Finance

Experience with data governance, lineage, and schema/version control

Plusses:

Exposure to ISDA CDM and/or FINOS ecosystem

Experience with event-driven architectures or API/data contract modeling

Background supporting regulatory/risk reporting use cases

Exposure to AI/LLM-ready data modeling (semantic layers, RAG, etc.)

Job Summary:

Seeking a Senior Data Modeler to act as the enterprise owner of a cross-asset Common Domain Model (CDM) supporting capital markets and investment banking. This role sits at the intersection of data strategy, governance, and engineering-defining canonical business semantics across trading, risk, finance, and operations platforms. This person will drive standardization across the enterprise, ensuring consistent definitions for trades, products, lifecycle events, parties, and reference data while enabling interoperability across systems. The role requires a strong blend of technical modeling expertise, capital markets knowledge, and governance leadership.

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Own and evolve the enterprise CDM strategy and roadmap across capital markets
• Design and maintain canonical models for trades, lifecycle events, positions, and reference data
• Establish and enforce modeling standards (naming, relationships, constraints, definitions)
• Lead cross-functional working sessions to align on data definitions across business lines
• Manage schema versioning, release processes, and impact analysis for model changes
• Drive adoption by creating mapping frameworks and onboarding guidance for systems
• Partner with engineering and architecture teams to ensure scalable implementation
• Support AI/ML readiness by enabling structured, well-defined, and governed datasets
• Prevent "shadow models" and ensure enterprise-wide consistency

Notes / Selling Points:

• True enterprise-level ownership role (not just hands-on modeling)
• Highly visible with senior leadership and multiple LOBs
• Strategic + technical blend (rare combo = hard to find, high impact)
• Sitting at the core of data standardization across capital markets
• Opportunity to influence long-term architecture + AI/data strategy

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