Data Architect, Financial Crime Technology

Medirest Signature; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial sector is seeking a Data Architect to define the architecture for data solutions within the Financial Crime Hub. The role involves owning the Financial Crime Data Architecture while ensuring projects align with data standards and support effective data modelling. Successful candidates will have expert knowledge in data architecture, extensive experience in data solutions, and excellent communication skills. This position offers flexible working and opportunities to influence business strategies.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of data architecture and data modelling.
• Extensive experience in financial services as an architect for data solutions.
• Good understanding of Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Own the Financial Crime Data Architecture and its roadmap.
• Provide advisory and governance support to ensure compliance with data standards.
• Influence development of business strategies and identify transformational opportunities.

Skills

Data Architecture

Data Modelling

Stakeholder Management

Agile Methodologies

Communication Skills

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