Data Architect

REALTIME recruitment; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 203,000; Part time

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Work From Home

Job summary

REALTIME recruitment seeks an experienced Data Architect to join our enterprise data team on a day-rate contract in a regulated financial services environment. You will shape the EDW design and evolution, collaborating with stakeholders, engineers, and governance bodies to deliver scalable, governed data architectures.

Key responsibilities include analyzing data sources, defining solution designs, and ensuring compliance with BCBS239 and related controls while supporting delivery teams through

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in Data Architecture or equivalent leadership.
• Strong Teradata on-premises experience.
• Advanced SQL with data analysis and validation.
• Experience with financial services data models and governance.

Responsibilities

• Own and support the architecture and design of Enterprise Data Warehouse solutions.
• Analyse source systems, data flows, business requirements, and downstream consumption needs.
• Present architecture proposals to Architecture Boards and governance forums.
• Embed data governance and regulatory compliance into solution designs.

Skills

SQL expertise

Architecture leadership

Data modelling

Stakeholder mgmt

Tools

Teradata

Informatica

IBM DataStage

Control-M

Job description

Data Architect Enterprise Data Warehouse (Teradata) Day Rate Contract We are seeking an experienced Data Architect to join our enterprise data team, supporting the design, delivery, and evolution of a large-scale Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) within a highly regulated financial services environment. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Data Architector a Senior Data Engineering Lead with demonstrable architecture ownershipto play a key role in shaping enterprise data solutions, driving architectural best practice, and supporting strategic regulatory and business initiatives. Working closely with business stakeholders, engineering teams, architects, and governance forums, you will be responsible for delivering scalable, pragmatic, and well-governed data architecture solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and support the architecture and design of Enterprise Data Warehouse solutions.
• Analyse source systems, data flows, business requirements, and downstream consumption needs.
• Perform Teradata SQL investigations, technical analysis, and solution validation where required.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, engineers, testers, delivery leads, and peer architects to define and validate solution designs.
• Evaluate architectural options and recommend pragmatic, scalable, and standards-aligned solutions.
• Produce and maintain architecture deliverables including: High Level Design (HLD) documents Architecture Design Decisions (ADDs) Solution options and design rationale Assumptions, risks, and governance documentation.
• Present architecture proposals and recommendations to Architecture Boards and governance forums.
• Embed data governance principles including metadata management, lineage, reconciliation, auditability, privacy, regulatory compliance, and controls into solution designs.
• Support delivery teams throughout build, testing, implementation, and production issue resolution.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Minimum 5+ years' experience in Data Architecture, or equivalent experience as a Senior Data Engineering Lead with architecture ownership.
• Strong hands-on experience working with Teradata in an on-premises Enterprise Data Warehouse environment.
• Advanced SQL skills with proven experience in data investigation, issue analysis, and technical validation.
• Practical experience using the Teradata Financial Services Data Model (FSDM) or a comparable financial services data model.
• Strong knowledge of: Enterprise Data Warehousing Data Mart design Data Integration patterns Large-scale data platform delivery.
• Previous experience within Banking, Financial Services, or other highly regulated environments.
• Understanding of regulatory data requirements including: BCBS239 RDARR Regulatory Reporting Data Traceability Auditability Evidence-based control frameworks.
• Strong data analysis and data modelling capability, including source-to-target analysis and relationship modelling.
• Working knowledge of ETL processes and technologies, ideally Informatica and/or IBM DataStage.
• Experience designing or implementing metadata-driven ingestion, transformation, reconciliation, control, or data delivery frameworks.
• Knowledge of Control-M or similar enterprise scheduling and orchestration tools.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience presenting solutions to senior business stakeholders, Architecture Boards, governance forums, and peer architecture teams.
• Demonstrated ability to produce high-quality governance-ready architecture documentation.
• Strong analytical thinking, sound judgement, and the confidence to challenge constructively while driving decisions to successful outcomes.
• Experience with, or strong appreciation of, an Inmon-style integrated Enterprise Data Warehouse architecture.

Benefits

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