Data Architect: AI-Driven Data Platform Leader

Orbis Investment Management Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Orbis Investment Management Limited is looking for a Data Architect to lead the strategy and execution of our enterprise data architecture in London. You will set standards for data modelling, metadata, lineage and quality, and guide sourcing, integration and consumption across business and technology teams.

You will prepare data for AI initiatives, collaborate with AI and investment teams, and work with platform engineering to ensure alignment with governance and architectural direction.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in data architecture or a closely related role, including as a Data Architect in asset management.
• Strong understanding of the data landscape and challenges within asset management, including the need to support investment, client, operational, regulatory and enterprise data.
• Experience designing and governing a modern cloud data stack, including warehouse and database structures, transformation and modelling layers, access and cost governance.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve Orbis’ enterprise data architecture — principles, standards, patterns and target states.
• Define standards for data modelling, metadata, lineage, master and reference data, and data quality management.
• Provide architectural guidance on how data should be sourced, integrated, stored and consumed across operational and analytical use cases.
• Prepare our data for AI: identify data that matters and ensure it is used reliably.
• Collaborate with delivery teams and platform engineering to align with data architecture and governance expectations.
• Identify opportunities to simplify the data landscape and improve coherence across platforms.

Skills

Data architecture

Asset management

Cloud data stack

Snowflake

dbt

Metadata management

Data governance

Stakeholder influence

Communication

Problem-solving

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Job description

Orbis Investment Management Limited is looking for a Data Architect to lead the strategy and execution of our enterprise data architecture in London. You will set standards for data modelling, metadata, lineage and quality, and guide sourcing, integration and consumption across business and technology teams.

You will prepare data for AI initiatives, collaborate with AI and investment teams, and work with platform engineering to ensure alignment with governance and architectural direction.