Lead Data Architect / Modeller

Sanderson; Greater London; On-site; GBP 129,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

Sanderson is seeking a Lead Data Architect / Modeller for a London-based fintech project. The role focuses on owning long-term data architecture and modelling between engineering delivery and analytics teams, ensuring a scalable, consistent data structure from the outset.

Responsibilities include defining conceptual data models, shaping operational data architecture, and establishing a semantic layer while engaging stakeholders to translate business needs into robust data models.

Qualifications

• Strong data architecture and modelling background.
• Fintech sector experience is highly desirable.
• Excellent conceptual and logical data modelling experience.
• Design data structures to support operational workflows and case management.
• Translate business requirements into scalable data models.
• Experience with modern event-driven architectures.
• Ability to challenge stakeholders and align business and engineering teams.
• Able to operate at business and technical architecture levels.

Responsibilities

• Define business-led conceptual data model across operational processes.
• Shape the operational data architecture for scale.
• Ensure enterprise data models are scalable, consistent and reusable.
• Help define the semantic layer for analytics.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand process operation and requirements.
• Challenge requirements where appropriate and review direction.
• Identify architectural or modelling issues and address them.

Skills

Data Architecture

Data Modelling

Fintech

Conceptual Modelling

Event-driven architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Technical architecture

Operational workflows

Business requirements translation

Tools

Snowflake

Job description

Lead Data Architect / Modeller - Fintech

£700-750/day outside IR35

London-based

Short-term initial engagement - 3-months

Working with a Fintech who are looking for a Lead Data Architect / Modeller to ensure the platform's data is structured correctly from the outset and can scale with business demand - this will be for someone to own the long-term data architecture and modelling between the engineering team who are focused on building and the analytics team who are consuming data.

Lead Data Architect / Modeller, responsibilities:

• Define business-led conceptual data model across operational processes


• Design / shape the operational data architecture


• Ensure enterprise data models are scalable, consistent and reusable


• Help define the semantic layer


• Work closely with business stakeholders to understand how processes operate


• Challenge requirements


• Review existing direction and identify architectural or modelling issues

Lead Data Architect / Modeller, key skills:

• Strong Data Architecture and Data Modelling background


• Fintech background


• Excellent conceptual and logical data modelling experience


• Experience designing data structures supporting operational workflows / case management


• Strong understanding of business requirements and the ability to translate them into scalable data models


• Modern event-driven architecture experience


• Strong stakeholder engagement and the confidence to challenge the business and engineering teams where appropriate


• Able to operate at both business/conceptual level and technical architecture level

Lead Data Architect / Modeller, FinTech, Snowflake, outside IR35

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