Data Architect

As a Data Architect, you’ll architect customer centric, high performance, secure, robust and sustainable end‑to‑end digital products, solutions, and services that deliver business value while aligning to the bank’s strategic target architecture and data strategy.

You’ll be actively contributing to the growth of architecting capability and the community across the bank through thought leadership, knowledge sharing, contributing to the community of practice, and building capability in others through coaching, mentoring and teaching.

Responsibilities

• Define strategic target data architecture and roadmap, aligning them with business strategy, data strategy and objectives.
• Facilitate collaborative architecture decision‑making, partnering and engaging with key business and digital leaders to continually evolve the bank’s long‑term architectural direction.
• Lead architecture and design reviews of solution data architectures within delivery programmes of high architectural significance or risk.
• Inspect and verify that proposed designs meet business needs and are compliant with Architecture Council approved principles, standards and patterns.
• Drive technology innovation by identifying and evaluating emerging technologies and their potential impact on the bank.
• Actively shape and contribute to strategic investment programmes, identifying opportunities for simplification or reuse, and guiding programme design to build and adopt key data architecture enablers.
• Promote a DevOps mindset by working as part of development teams to embed data architecture principles.

Qualifications & Skills

• Expert knowledge of data architecture frameworks, modern technologies such as Cloud, microservices and AI, agile architecture and DevOps practices.
• Extensive experience defining and developing strategic target data architectures that align with organisational objectives.
• Experience leading collaborative decision‑making processes, partnering with senior business and technology colleagues to articulate and evolve architectural direction.
• Experience identifying and advocating for strategic investment opportunities that enhance the organisation’s architecture goals.
• Proven ability to craft compelling business cases and influence senior stakeholders to secure investment for architecture initiatives.
• Experience overseeing and assuring the quality of architecture designs, focusing on risk management and governance.
• Experience conducting comprehensive architecture and design reviews to validate that solutions meet business needs and comply with architecture standards.
• Proven track record of fostering a culture of architectural excellence through mentorship and knowledge sharing.

Additional Information

• Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Information Technology
• Industries: Software Development

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