Senior Funds Data Architect & Strategy Lead

Citi; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance starting at

Discretional annual performance bonus

Private medical insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Special discounts for employees

Learning and development resources

Job summary

Citi Belfast seeks a Lead Funds Data Architect to bridge business needs and technical solutions within the Funds domain. You will lead data strategy, governance, lineage, modeling, and architecture for Fund accounting, administration, ETFs, IBOR, and ABOR, ensuring compliant, scalable data platforms.

Responsibilities include shaping data models, overseeing data governance, and enabling regulatory reporting and client statements across the Funds lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in data analysis, data architecture, or data warehousing roles.
• 5+ years of direct experience within the financial services industry, specifically with deep expertise in the Funds business (e.g., asset management, mutual funds, hedge funds).
• Proven experience with Fund accounting, Fund Administration, ETFs, IBOR, ABOR, and financial reporting.

Responsibilities

• Data Strategy & Vision: Define and articulate the data strategy and architectural vision for the Funds business, ensuring alignment with enterprise data initiatives and regulatory requirements.
• Domain Expertise Application: Apply deep knowledge of Fund accounting, Fund Administration processes, ETF Operations, IBOR, and ABOR to design highly efficient and accurate data models and data flows.
• Data Architecture Design: Architect robust, scalable, and secure data solutions, including logical and physical data models, data warehousing, data lakes, and data integration patterns tailored for complex financial data.
• Data Governance & Quality: Champion and implement best practices for data governance, ensuring high data quality, integrity,and adherence to internal policies and external regulations across all Funds data.
• Data Lineage & Metadata Management: Establish and maintain comprehensive data lineage documentation and metadata management strategies to ensure transparency, auditability, and understanding of critical data assets within the Funds business.
• Data Modeling Leadership: Lead data modeling efforts, developing conceptual, logical, and physical data models that support current and future business needs, with a strong focus on reusability and extensibility for Funds data.
• Analysis & Requirements Gathering: Conduct detailed data analysis, gather business requirements from stakeholders in Fund accounting, operations, and reporting, and translate them into precise technical specifications.
• Solution Implementation Support: Collaborate closely with development and engineering teams during the implementation phase, providing architectural oversight and resolving data-related technical challenges.
• Reporting & Analytics Enablement: Design data structures and access patterns that enable efficient and accurate generation of various internal and external reports, including regulatory filings and client statements.
• Technology Evaluation: Evaluate and recommend new data technologies, tools, and methodologies that enhance data capabilities and efficiency within the Funds business.

Skills

Data governance

Data lineage

Data modeling

Funds domain knowledge

Tools

ER/Studio

Erwin

SQL Server

Oracle

Snowflake

Databricks

ETL/ELT

APIs

AWS

Azure

GCP

Hadoop

Spark

Kafka

Job description

Citi Belfast seeks a Lead Funds Data Architect to bridge business needs and technical solutions within the Funds domain. You will lead data strategy, governance, lineage, modeling, and architecture for Fund accounting, administration, ETFs, IBOR, and ABOR, ensuring compliant, scalable data platforms.

Responsibilities include shaping data models, overseeing data governance, and enabling regulatory reporting and client statements across the Funds lifecycle.