Data Architect

Business Data Architect – Digital Bank Build

📍London 2-3 days per week

💼 Contract (Outside IR35) | 💰 Up to £650/day | ⏳ 6–12 months | 🚀 ASAP start

We’re hiring a Business Data Architect to help shape the data foundations of a greenfield digital banking platform. This is a key role focused on data architecture, governance, and integration design—enabling scalable, high-quality data across core banking systems and analytics.

What you’ll do

• Define domain data models (Customer, Account, Transactions, Product)
• Design architecture for a cloud-based Enterprise Data Platform
• Create integration artefacts across core banking & external APIs
• Establish data governance & MDM (ownership, stewardship, golden records)
• Develop CRUD matrices & data lineage
• Enable BI & operational reporting
• Partner with business & engineering teams to align data with product and regulatory needs

What we’re looking for

• 5+ years in Data Architecture (banking / fintech)
• Strong data modelling (Kimball, Data Vault)
• Experience with modern data platforms (Snowflake, AWS, Azure)
• Strong understanding of MDM, governance & API-driven architectures
• Knowledge of banking regulations (AML/KYC, ISO 20022)

💬 If you’re interested (or know someone who is), drop me a message or apply directly.