Data Architect (Financial Crime), Director

Join us as a Data Architect (Financial Crime)

• For someone with a background in defining business and application architectures and roadmaps for complex enterprises, this is an excellent opportunity to join our business. You'll be defining the intentional architecture for your assigned scope in order to ensure that the current architecture being delivered by engineers best supports the enterprise and its long term strategy
• You'll provide advisory support and embed governance to ensure projects align to our simplification strategy and comply with data standards while promoting and supporting effective data modelling, metadata management and alignment to enterprise data model and data controls
• With valuable exposure, you’ll be building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the bank to ensure commercially focused decisions and to create long term value for the bank
• We're offering this role at director level

What you'll do

As a Data Architect, you’ll be defining and communicating the current, resultant and target state data architecture for your assigned scope. You’ll advise domain and project teams to ensure alignment with data architecture standards, data principles, data controls, target data architectures, data patterns and the banks simplification strategy.

We’ll look to you to influence the development of business strategies at an organisational level, identifying transformational opportunities for Financial Crime associated with both new and existing data solutions.

As well as this, you’ll be:

• Translating architecture roadmaps into packages of work that allow frequent incremental delivery of value to be included in product backlog
• Defining, creating and maintaining architecture models, roadmaps, standards and outcomes, using architecture strategies to ensure alignment to adjacent and higher level model
• Collaborate and support data management SMEs and data stewards ensuring metadata management aligns with enterprise data model
• Conduct data design reviews to ensure solutions meet data standards, data principles, data controls, data patterns and target data architectures
• Seeking out and utilising continuous feedback, fostering adaptive design and engineering practices to drive the collaboration of programmes and teams around a common technical vision

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need expert knowledge of application architecture, and at least one business, data or infrastructure architecture with working knowledge of the remaining disciplines. You’ll have excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to colleagues, up to senior leadership level, along with a good understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Experience of developing, syndicating and communicating architectures, designs and proposals for action
• An understanding of industry architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF and ArchiMate
• Experience in data modelling methodologies (3NF, Dimensional, Data Vault, Star Schema, etc). Knowledge of data related regulations such as GDPR, CCPA,PCI DSS, BCBS 239
• Experience of working with business solution vendors, technology vendors and products within the market
• A background in systems development change life cycles, best practices and approaches
• Knowledge of hardware, software, application and systems engineering