Risk & Finance Data Architect

NatWest

Edinburgh

1 year ago

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Join us as a Risk and Finance Data Architect

This is an opportunity for an experienced data professional to make the step into Data Architect
You’ll help us define the high level data technical architecture and design for your assigned scope that provides solutions to deliver great business outcomes and meets our longer term strategy
You’ll define and communicate a shared technical and architectural vision of end-to-end designs that may span multiple platforms and domains
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

With a focus on the Risk and Finance domain, we’ll look to you to influence and promote the collaboration across platform and domain teams on the solution delivery. Partnering with platform and domain teams, you’ll elaborate the solution and its interfaces, validating technology assumptions, evaluating implementation alternatives, and creating 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 incremental delivery of customer value.

On top of this, you’ll be:

Owning the technical data design issues and driving resolution through the iteration of the technical data solution design
Participating in activities to shape requirements, validating designs and prototypes to deliver change that aligns with the target data architecture
Promoting adaptive design practices to drive collaboration of feature teams around a common technical vision using continuous feedback
Making recommendations of potential impacts to existing and prospective customers of the latest technology and customer trends, with a strong focus on data

The skills you'll need

As a Risk and Finance Data Architect, you’ll bring expert knowledge of application architecture, and in business data or infrastructure architecture 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:

Experience of defining application, data-architectures and roadmaps for complex solutions working for all layers of the technical architecture
A background in delivering solutions that securely span a complex infrastructure domain
Experience of systems development change lifecycles, best practices and approaches
Knowledge of hardware, software, application, and systems engineering
The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership level colleagues
Awareness of data management and governance
Awareness of enterprise architecture patterns, data mesh and event-driven architectures

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