Data Architect, Financial Crime Technology

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent financial institution is seeking a Data Architect for its Financial Crime Technology team. In this hybrid role, you will define the data architecture for solutions aimed at combating financial crime while providing governance and advisory support. The ideal candidate will possess expert knowledge in data architecture, excellent communication skills, and extensive experience within the financial services sector. This position offers the opportunity to work from home part of the week, with a strong emphasis on stakeholder collaboration and influencing strategic business decisions.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of data architecture and data modelling.
• Extensive experience as an architect for data solutions in financial services.
• Good understanding of industry architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF and ArchiMate.

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture for data solutions within the Financial Crime Hub.
• Influence the development of business strategies at an organizational level.
• Provide advisory and governance support to ensure projects align with simplification strategy.

Skills

Data architecture expertise

Data modelling knowledge

Communication skills

Collaboration

Agile methodologies understanding

Job description

Join us as an Data Architect, Financial Crime Technology

• You'll be defining the architecture for data solutions within the Financial Crime Hub to ensure that the architecture being delivered by engineers best supports Financial Crime
• You’ll be a leader of data architecture, data design and data architecture governance for data programmes in Financial Crime
• You'll work from home some of the time, but you'll also spend a minimum of two days per week working from the office

What you'll do

As a Data Architect, you’ll own the Financial Crime Data Architecture, and its roadmap; you’ll provide advisory and governance support to ensure projects align to simplification strategy and comply with data standards while promoting and supporting effective data modelling, metadata management and alignment to enterprise data model and data controls.

We’ll look to you to influence the development of business strategies at an organisational level, identifying transformational opportunities for our businesses and technology areas associated with both new and existing technologies.

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need expert knowledge of data architecture, and data modelling with a good knowledge of the remaining architecture and data management disciplines. You’ll have extensive experience as an architect for data solutions within financial services industry.

You’ll have excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to colleagues, up to senior leadership level, along with a good understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Experience of developing, syndicating and communicating architectures, designs and proposals for action
• An understanding of industry architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF and ArchiMate
• Experience of working with business solution vendors, technology vendors and products within the market
• A background in systems development change life cycles, best practices and approaches
• Knowledge of hardware, software, application and systems engineering

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

03/08/2025 Ways of Working:Hybrid