Data Architect, Financial Crime Technology - #1677713

Job Description Data Architect, Financial Crime Technology Location Edinburgh EH :

Join us as an Data Architect, Financial Crime Technology

• You'll be defining the architecture for data solutions within the Financial Crime Hub to ensure that the architecture being delivered by engineers best supports Financial Crime


• You'll be a leader of data architecture, data design and data architecture governance for data programmes in Financial Crime


• You'll work from home some of the time, but you'll also spend a minimum of two days per week working from the office

As a Data Architect, you'll you'll own the Financial Crime Data Architecture, and its roadmap; you'll providing advisory support and governance to ensure projects align to 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.

We'll look to you to influence the development of business strategies at an organisational level, identifying transformational opportunities for our businesses and technology areas associated with both new and existing technologies.

As well as this, you'll be:

To succeed in this role, you'll need expert knowledge of data architecture, and data modelling with a good knowledge of the remaining architecture and data management disciplines. You'll have extensive experience as an architect for data solutions within financial services industry.

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 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