Join us as a Data Architect
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This is an opportunity for an experienced Data Architect to help us define the high-level data architecture and design for your assigned scope that provides solutions to deliver great business outcomes and meet our longer term strategy
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You’ll define and communication of a shared technical and architectural vision of end-to-end designs that may span multiple platforms and domains
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Take on this exciting new challenge and hone your technical capabilities while advancing your career and building your network across the bank
What you'll do
We’ll look to you to influence and support architecture, platform, and domain teams on the data delivery, ensuring data is considered throughout the requirements, design and delivery lifecycle. Partnering with the wider technology teams, including the central data team, solution architects, infrastructure architects within your domain, and platform teams, you’ll design and manage the data lifecycle.
We’ll look to you to elaborate on the solution and its interfaces, validate technology assumptions, evaluate implementation alternatives, and create the continuous delivery pipeline. You’ll also provide analysis of options and deliver end-to-end solution designs using the relevant building blocks, as well as producing designs for features that allow frequent and incremental delivery of customer value.
On top of this, you’ll be:
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Owning the technical design issues and driving resolution through the iteration of the technical solution design
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Participating in activities to shape requirements, validating designs and prototypes to deliver change that aligns with the target architecture
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Promoting adaptive design practices to drive collaboration of feature teams around a common technical vision using continuous feedback
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Making recommendations of potential impacts to existing and prospective customers of the latest technology and customer trends
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Translating business requirements into technical specifications, including but not limited to, database schemas, streaming structures and API specifications
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Promoting the accessibility, accuracy and security of data through efficient data management
The skills you'll need
You’ll bring expert knowledge of designing data intensive applications, with working knowledge of industry architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or ArchiMate. You’ll also need an understanding of Agile and contemporary methodologies with experience of working in Agile teams.
On top of this, you’ll bring:
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A solid knowledge of modern data management practices and technologies
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Experience of defining application architectures and roadmaps for complex solutions working for all layers of the technical architecture
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A background in delivering solutions that securely span a complex infrastructure domain
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Experience of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approaches
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Knowledge of hardware, software, application, systems engineering, cloud, event streaming, microservices and APIs
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The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership level colleagues
Hours
35
Job Posting Closing Date:
09/04/2025
Ways of Working:Remote First
What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate.
As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these.
Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence.
One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025.
We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
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