Enterprise Data Architect | Investment Management | London

Overview

As Enterprise Data Architect, you will establish a business-aligned data baseline to drive prioritised data products and governance. You’ll translate business demand into actionable roadmaps and define ownership and access models across data domains. You’ll work on pragmatic data-access strategies and oversee delivery quality, balancing regulatory considerations with live delivery. You will partner with senior stakeholders to shape data architecture that scales across Snowflake, BI tools, and operational systems. This is a high-impact, hands-on role shaping durable foundations for data in a complex, regulated organisation.

Responsibilities

• Articulate data demand into prioritised data products
• Map data flows and dependencies across Snowflake, operational systems, BI/integration tooling, and end-user environments
• Define ownership, stewardship, and authority models for domains and systems of record
• Shape a practical data-access model aligned with Microsoft Entra
• Create and steer a sequenced roadmap for data products, governance, access, and platform evolution; advise senior stakeholders and ensure delivery quality

Key requirements

• Senior experience in data architecture / enterprise architecture in complex or regulated environments
• Track record translating business outcomes into architecture priorities and roadmaps
• Experience defining data products, domains, systems of record, and ownership models
• Hands-on capability mapping data landscapes across cloud data platforms, apps, BI tools, integrations
• Practical knowledge of Snowflake or comparable cloud data platforms (ingestion, transformation, governance)
• Strong data governance grounding (quality, lineage, privacy, retention, auditability)
• Experience designing enterprise access models using Microsoft Entra / RBAC
• Confidence engaging senior stakeholders and producing concise decision documentation

• Stakeholder management
• Facilitation and communication
• Conciseness in options papers/decisions
• Snowflake
• Microsoft Entra
• RBAC

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