Senior Data Architect

GIOS Technology; Northampton; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead the design and governance of enterprise data solutions in a high-scale payments environment. You will shape the data architecture strategy, guide ETL activities, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure robust delivery across various workflows. Proven experience in a payments domain is essential, along with strong technical leadership skills.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Data Architect in a payments environment.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture and governance.
• Experience with high-scale data solution design and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise data architecture strategy and data modelling across payment systems.
• Design and validate High-Level Data Designs, integration frameworks, and workflows.
• Guide ETL/data engineering activities and mentor engineering teams.

Skills

Data Modelling

ETL

Data Governance

Payments Domain

SQL

Teradata

Hadoop

Ab Initio

Informatica

Spark

Sqoop

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead the design and governance of enterprise data solutions within a high-scale payments environment. The role involves shaping strategic data architecture, driving technology alignment, and ensuring robust delivery across POS, onboarding, authorisation, and transaction workflows.

• Lead enterprise data architecture strategy and data modelling across payment systems.
• Design and validate High-Level Data Designs, integration frameworks, and source-to-target workflows.
• Guide ETL / data engineering activities, ensuring alignment to design standards and performance requirements.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders, solution architects, and project managers across change and delivery streams.
• Champion data governance, scalable design patterns, and architecture best practices.
• Provide technical leadership, documentation oversight, and mentorship to engineering teams.
  Ab Initio, Informatica, Spark, Sqoop, Teradata, Hadoop, SQL, RDBMS, Data Modelling, ETL, Data Warehousing, Data Governance, Payments Domain