Data Architect Azure AI SQL Finance Croydon, London

Data Architect (Architecture Data Development Engineer Engineering Manager Management Head of Agile Microsoft Azure ML AI Automation Finance Financial Services Fabric Synapse DataBricks Snowflake SQL) required by our financial client in Croydon, London.

You MUST have the following:

• Good experience as a Data Engineering Manager/Lead Data Architect
• Strong management experience- inheriting teams, raising standards and performance
• Strategy to align with the needs of the business
• Excellent design and architecture ability
• MS SQL Server
• Azure
• AI - even if outside work
• Agile
• Experience in a financial environment

The following are DESIRABLE, not essential:

• Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Databricks or Snowflake

Role: Data Architect (Architecture Data Development Engineer Engineering Manager Management Head of Agile Microsoft Azure ML AI Automation Finance Financial Services Fabric Synapse DataBricks Snowflake SQL) required by our financial client in Croydon, London. You will inherit a team of 3, comprising two permanent staff and one contractor. The contractor is senior, the two permanent are more junior, making this a very hands-on role. It will be all-encompassing, involving data architecture, engineering for technical delivery and management to cover line-management of the team and alignment of the company's strategy with the roadmap for the data environment. In addition to this are data governance and regulatory compliance requirements that you will also have ownership of.

On the engineering and architecture side, you will have good experience of leading companies from on-premise virtual machines to Azure. You will be seasoned in taking data projects from inception to design, architecture and technical delivery, contributing to the engineering yourself. In addition to taking environments to the cloud, you will also have some exposure to AI and ML and be comfortable in assessing what tools and products are most appropriate for the business' goals and evolution.

On the managerial side, you will have led teams and have experience with line-management. If you have inherited teams previously, that would also be ideal. You will have worked in an FCA regulated environment and be familiar with the necessary requirements to be compliant from a data perspective.

The journey you will take with this team will be to implement better monitoring, automation, migration to the cloud and then the adoption of AI and ML. As the business is c.200 people and the management team is strong and Agile, this could happen very quickly.

The technology department has a hybrid working setup. You will be given the flexibility to come into the office as you wish although, in the initial months, it will probably be appropriate to go to the office 2-3 times/week.

Salary: £100k - 125k + Bonus + Pension