Data Architect, Financial Crime Technology

Medirest Signature; London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading firm in financial services is seeking a Data Architect to define and govern data architecture for its Financial Crime Hub in London. The role includes advisory support to ensure projects align with data standards and simplification strategies. Ideal candidates should have expert knowledge in data architecture and modelling, excellent communication skills, and experience in the financial services sector. Flexible work arrangements are available, requiring a minimum of two days per week in the office.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Own the Financial Crime Data Architecture and its roadmap.
• Provide advisory and governance support to projects aligning with the simplification strategy.
• Influence the development of business strategies and identify transformational opportunities.

Skills

Communication Skills

Collaboration

Stakeholder Management

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