Senior Data Architect

Job Title: Senior Data Architect

Location: Northampton (2–3 Days Onsite)

Duration: Until 31/12/2026

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead the design and governance of enterprise data solutions within a high-scale payments environment. The role involves shaping strategic data architecture, driving technology alignment, and ensuring robust delivery across POS, onboarding, authorisation, and transaction workflows.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise data architecture strategy and data modelling across payment systems.
• Design and validate High-Level Data Designs, integration frameworks, and source-to-target workflows.
• Guide ETL / data engineering activities, ensuring alignment to design standards and performance requirements.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders, solution architects, and project managers across change and delivery streams.
• Champion data governance, scalable design patterns, and architecture best practices.
• Provide technical leadership, documentation oversight, and mentorship to engineering teams.

Key Skills (Keywords Only)

Ab Initio, Informatica, Spark, Sqoop, Teradata, Hadoop, SQL, RDBMS, Data Modelling, ETL, Data Warehousing, Data Governance, Payments Domain