NewDay

Lead Data Architect

Company
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/22/2025
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Description
What You’ll Be Doing

  • Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement the strategic roadmap for data architecture across Nexus, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technological advancements.
  • Team Leadership & Mentorship: Lead and mentor a team of Data Solution Architects ensuring they are equipped to deliver high-quality, scalable data models and solutions.
  • Collaboration: Partner closely with stake holders, enterprise architects, and department head to ensure the data architecture strategy supports business goals and objectives.
  • Technical Guidance & Oversight: Provide hands-on technical leadership for the team, ensuring high standards in the design, development, and implementation data architecture.
  • Data Governance & Compliance: Ensure data governance and compliance with regulatory requirements, data security standards, and best practices in data quality.
  • Architectural Oversight: Serve as the ultimate approver for architectural designs, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and aligned with the organization's data strategy.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work across business units and IT teams to ensure data architecture aligns with current and future reporting and analytical requirements.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Regularly engage with stakeholders across the business, from technical teams to senior leadership, to present roadmaps and strategic initiatives.
  • Resource Allocation & Project Management: Oversee project timelines and resource management, ensuring data solution architecture initiatives are completed on time, within scope, and deliver business value.

Essential

Your Skills and Experience

  • Proven Leadership in Data Solution Architecture: Extensive experience leading data solutions architecture teams and driving the development of enterprise-wide data platforms.
  • Strategic Vision: Demonstrated ability to develop and execute a forward-thinking data architecture strategy that aligns with business and technological goals.
  • Cloud-Native Expertise: Strong knowledge of cloud-native data architectures, particularly within AWS, Azure, or Snowflake environments.
  • Data Governance & Compliance: Deep understanding of data governance, compliance frameworks, and ensuring the integrity of data systems.
  • Architectural Design & Review: Experience designing, reviewing, and approving data architecture models and solutions at a large scale.
  • Experience with Financial Services: Familiarity with data challenges in financial services or other regulated industries, particularly around credit cards or payment solutions.
  • Stakeholder Management: Proven track record of communicating and working effectively with senior stakeholders, technical teams, and business users to drive alignment.
  • Data Solutions Expertise: In-depth knowledge of enterprise data solutions, including data warehousing and data modelling.
  • Agile & Waterfall Methodologies: Familiarity with both agile and waterfall methodologies for managing large-scale data projects.

Desirable

  • Experience in a financial service specially Credit Cards or regulated industry
  • Working on cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Snowflake)
  • Experience on Stream Data processing and tools like Confluent Kafka
  • Experience of design to handle similar data from various sources
  • Design experience on Data Vault, Data Lake and Mart technologies in Cloud
  • Experience using advanced SQL functions and query performance tuning
  • Experience of design within a data science environment (AWS S3/ Jupyter notebooks)
  • Experience of ETL technologies (e.g. AWS Glue, Informatica)
  • Experience of Data Catalogue tools (e.g. Atlan, Collibra, Informatica)
  • Working experience on data analysis/discovery languages like R, Python

We work with Textio to make our job design and hiring inclusive.

Permanent
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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