Senior Data Architect - Finance Data & Cloud Strategy

Reply; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Reply is a UK-based technology consultancy seeking a seasoned Data Architect to partner with major financial services clients. The role focuses on designing scalable data architectures, assessing needs, and translating business requirements into secure technical solutions aligned with regulatory standards.

You will work with cross‑functional teams to build data warehouses, data lakes, ETL processes, and governance frameworks, enabling data as an asset and delivering actionable insights through

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of Financial Services industry and data architecture.
• Experience designing data warehouses, data lakes, and ETL for financial services.
• Proficiency in logical and physical data modelling and normalization/denormalization.
• Cloud data solutions expertise with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake.
• Ability to create dashboards and analytics for actionable insights.
• Knowledge of data governance, quality, and security per regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data architectures aligned to business goals and compliance.
• Collaborate with clients to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Lead data warehousing, data lake, and ETL initiatives for financial services.
• Govern data governance, quality, security best practices.
• Develop roadmaps for data strategy with stakeholders.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

ETL design

Data warehousing

Data lakes

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Snowflake)

Regulatory compliance

Data governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Dashboards & analytics

Job description

Reply is a UK-based technology consultancy seeking a seasoned Data Architect to partner with major financial services clients. The role focuses on designing scalable data architectures, assessing needs, and translating business requirements into secure technical solutions aligned with regulatory standards.

You will work with cross‑functional teams to build data warehouses, data lakes, ETL processes, and governance frameworks, enabling data as an asset and delivering actionable insights through