Senior Information Architect: AI-Driven Data Platforms

University of Alabama Libraries; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a Senior Information Architect to shape the firm’s data strategy, modelling standards, and AI-enabled capabilities across cloud platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks.

You will provide design authority across conceptual, logical, and physical data models, collaborating with engineering and domain teams to deliver scalable, compliant data products and semantic layers that support enterprise AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in data architecture, data engineering, or information management.
• Strong modelling across conceptual, logical and physical levels.
• Hands-on with modern tooling (Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, SQL) and AI-enabled data products.

Responsibilities

• Lead and govern enterprise data models across source, integration, and consumption layers.
• Define archival and lineage standards; steward data entities and metadata.
• Collaborate with engineering and domain teams to translate business needs into data structures.
• Guide semantic models and ontologies for AI-enabled data products.
• Present decisions to senior stakeholders and ensure regulatory alignment.

Skills

Data architecture

Data modelling

Semantic modelling

Python

SQL

AI data products

GitHub Copilot

Knowledge graphs

Ontologies design

Snowflake

Databricks

dbt Labs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems

Tools

SqlDBM

Snowflake

Databricks

Cortex AI

Genie

GitHub Copilot

OWL / RDF tooling

Job description

Northern Trust is seeking a Senior Information Architect to shape the firm’s data strategy, modelling standards, and AI-enabled capabilities across cloud platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks.

You will provide design authority across conceptual, logical, and physical data models, collaborating with engineering and domain teams to deliver scalable, compliant data products and semantic layers that support enterprise AI initiatives.