Senior Data Architect – Snowflake & Real-Time Platforms

FalconSmartIT; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

FalconSmartIT is seeking a senior Data Architect to join the CAGM Global Markets engineering team in London. The role leads end-to-end data architecture across Snowflake, on-prem databases, and real-time data flows for RTL, Payments, and FX domains.

You will own data modelling standards, ingestion patterns, governance, and data products while collaborating with platform, BI, and product teams to deliver scalable, compliant solutions.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive technology experience, with at least 5 years in senior data architecture roles.
• Hands-on Snowflake expertise with enterprise data warehouse design and governance.
• Proficient in dbt modelling, data quality, and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the CAGM data architecture target state across Snowflake and application databases.
• Establish unified data modelling standards across relational, in-memory, time-series, and document stores.
• Design real-time CDC and batch ETL/ELT pipelines from source systems into Snowflake.
• Define data domain boundaries, ownership, and lineage aligned with CAGM product domains.
• Produce authoritative artefacts: ER models, data flows, data dictionaries, and ADRs.

Skills

Snowflake

Data architecture

dbt

ETL/ELT

Data governance

Real-time pipelines

AWS

Tools

Liquibase

Flyway

Job description

FalconSmartIT is seeking a senior Data Architect to join the CAGM Global Markets engineering team in London. The role leads end-to-end data architecture across Snowflake, on-prem databases, and real-time data flows for RTL, Payments, and FX domains.

You will own data modelling standards, ingestion patterns, governance, and data products while collaborating with platform, BI, and product teams to deliver scalable, compliant solutions.