Banking Data Model Architect: Canonical Models & Risk

Zohorecruit; United Arab Emirates; Remote; AED 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Techsa is seeking a Senior Data Modeler (Banking) to own the banking data model from source systems through canonical entities, identity rules, and attribute definitions. You will work with risk/compliance stakeholders and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable data capabilities.

Ideal candidates have deep experience in banking data ecosystems, KYC/CDD, and regulatory considerations, with a proven ability to translate requirements into concrete specifications and production-ready designs.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with banking data modelling, core banking data, BIAN, ISO 20022, card and payments data, transaction enrichment, identity resolution, SQL.
• Strong working knowledge of core banking structures: CIF, party, account, product, ledger.
• Hands on with card scheme data across authorisation, clearing and settlement, MCC codes, and payment rails.
• Transaction enrichment and merchant normalisation in production, not as a lookup table.
• Identity resolution across fragmented customer records, joint accounts, and corporate hierarchies.
• Understands KYC, CDD, and regulatory limits on secondary use of transaction data.
• Maps source systems to a canonical model and writes implementable specifications, not slide decks.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver solutions within the scope of the role, from requirements and technical/design decisions through implementation and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with engineering, product, data, design, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into practical, scalable solutions.
• Apply strong engineering and/or domain expertise to build reliable, maintainable, and production-ready capabilities.
• Contribute to architecture, standards, documentation, quality, and technical decision-making appropriate to the role.
• Identify performance, scalability, data quality, usability, reliability, or operational risks and address them proactively.
• Collaborate across teams to ensure solutions integrate effectively with existing systems and platform components.

Skills

Banking data modelling

Core banking data

BIAN

ISO 20022

Card and payments data

Transaction enrichment

Identity resolution

SQL

Job description

Techsa is seeking a Senior Data Modeler (Banking) to own the banking data model from source systems through canonical entities, identity rules, and attribute definitions. You will work with risk/compliance stakeholders and cross-functional teams to deliver scalable data capabilities.

Ideal candidates have deep experience in banking data ecosystems, KYC/CDD, and regulatory considerations, with a proven ability to translate requirements into concrete specifications and production-ready designs.