Data Architect, Financial Crime Technology

NatWest Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Join us as a 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 support and governance to ensure projects align with the simplification strategy and comply with data standards while promoting effective data modelling, metadata management, and alignment to enterprise data models and data controls.

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

As well as this, you’ll be:

The skills you'll need

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

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

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Experience developing, syndicating, and communicating architectures, designs, and proposals for action
• An understanding of industry architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF and ArchiMate
• Experience 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: 29/04/2025

Ways of Working: Hybrid