Data Architect

Profectus Recruitment; England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services recruitment partner is seeking a strategic Data Architect in the United Kingdom. This role focuses on data governance, architecture, and building frameworks in a collaborative environment. Candidates should have experience in regulated settings, strong stakeholder engagement skills, and comfort with structured and unstructured data. Knowledge of cloud technologies and data quality tools is beneficial. The position offers a hybrid working arrangement of 2 days onsite per week.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in data architecture and governance within financial services.
• Ability to build data governance frameworks and influence stakeholders.
• Comfortable working with structured and unstructured data.

Responsibilities

• Shape enterprise-wide data governance and architecture.
• Drive governance frameworks that are effective and informative.
• Engage with stakeholders to align on data ownership and quality.

Skills

Data architecture

Data governance

Stakeholder engagement

Cloud platforms (Azure/Fabric)

Content management

Tools

Power BI

Data quality tools

Job description

Profectus Recruitment is partnered with a highly regulated financial services company to hire a strategic Data Architect. This role will play a key part in shaping enterprise-wide data governance, architecture and content management as the business continues its journey towards more modern, cloud-native platforms.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys autonomy, building things properly, and driving governance frameworks that stick, not just creating documents. Culture is important: you’ll be joining a collaborative, stakeholder-led environment where influencing and relationship building are as important as technical capability.

Hybrid working: 2 days per week on-site.

What they’re looking for

• Strong experience in data architecture / data governance within financial services or another highly regulated environment
• Confident building data governance frameworks (policies, standards, stewardship, lifecycle governance)
• Comfortable working with both structured and unstructured data (e.g. data lakes + content management)
• Strong stakeholder engagement – able to influence and align business areas around data ownership, metadata and quality
• Experience establishing governance forums/councils and driving a data-driven culture

Nice to have (not essential)

• Cloud exposure (Azure / Fabric / Power BI) and modern data platforms (warehouse, ETL/ELT)
• Experience with tooling such as data catalogues / metadata management / data quality tools

If you’re looking for a role where you can take real ownership, shape governance end-to-end, and work in a collaborative environment where culture matters please apply for immediate consideration.