Architect / Technology Lead

Lead Architect – Data Marketplace | Tier 1 UK Bank One of the UK’s data pioneers looking to rebuild and restructure the architecture capabilities and bring in a Lead Architect to spearhead a newly created team. This organisation have undergone massive growth within Data & Analytics over the last 3-4 years, growing from 1700 to now over 3000 members within the team today. This transformation of how data is managed and used across the enterprise involves modernisation of key platforms and a number of initiatives including defining the intentional architecture for the bank’s data marketplace and shared data platforms. In this role, you will have the opportunity to join this incredibly exciting data function, at the heart of the bank’s innovation strategy. This involves: Responsibilities Translating architecture roadmaps into packages of work that allow for continuous upgrades Defining, creating and maintaining architecture models, roadmaps, standards and outcomes Working closely with business owners across multiple domains and verticals within the enterprise Leading complex and technically challenging architectural modernisations Managing data both from an on-premises and virtual cloud environments Leading, influencing and governing data market place and shared data platforms architectures ensuring these meet the banks data sourcing, data management and data discovery demands Identifying gaps in data architecture culture and skills across your areas of management and influencing supporting plans to resolve, providing mentorship where necessary Experience Hands-on experience with roadmap design and architecture frameworks Have managed or lead other architects, as well as influencing teams of architects, data engineers, and business analysts across data and other domains. Experience and knowledge of AWS Data Stack, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Neo4J, Streamsets, EMR or Spark, Tableau, Snowflake and PowerBI This is a permanent role with hybrid working based in either Manchester, Edinburgh or London