Lead the definition, governance, and evolution of enterprise data architecture standards, ensuring alignment with business strategy and regulatory requirements.

• Define and maintain target-state, transition-state, and current-state data architectures across financial services domains such as Risk, Finance, Treasury, and Compliance
• Drive enterprise data modeling initiatives and ensure alignment with global and industry data standards (e.g., FSLDM, BIRD)
• Design end-to-end data flows, integration architectures, and cross-domain data solutions across complex ecosystems
• Establish and facilitate architecture governance forums, review boards, and data standards adoption across the organization
• Lead architectural decisions for data platforms, analytics ecosystems, and regulatory reporting initiatives
• Partner with business, technology, and enterprise architecture teams to ensure consistency across data strategy and execution
• Review and approve solution architectures to ensure compliance with governance, quality, and regulatory expectations

Requirements

Experienced data architecture leader with strong financial services domain expertise and deep knowledge of enterprise data systems and governance frameworks.

• 9+ years of experience in Data Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Data Management, or related roles, ideally in financial services
• Strong domain expertise in areas such as Risk, Finance, Treasury, Capital Markets, or Transaction Banking
• Deep understanding of financial products including loans, deposits, bonds, derivatives, swaps, and options
• Strong knowledge of regulatory reporting frameworks such as FINREP, ILAAP, CCR, and other EMEA requirements
• Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalent technologies
• Expertise in enterprise data modeling, metadata management, MDM, and data quality frameworks
• Experience with data governance platforms (e.g., Collibra) and architecture tools (e.g., LeanIX, Ardoq)
• Strong understanding of modern data architecture patterns including Data Mesh, Data Fabric, Data Lake, and hybrid architectures
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills across technical and executive audiences
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving ability, and decision-making capability in complex environments

Benefits

• Competitive salary aligned with senior architecture responsibilities and experience
• Opportunity to shape enterprise-scale data strategy in a global financial services context
• Exposure to cutting-edge data architecture patterns and modern cloud data ecosystems
• Strong career growth in a high-impact principal-level technical leadership role
• Collaborative and globally distributed work environment
• Opportunity to influence enterprise governance, standards, and strategic data initiatives
• Access to complex, high-value transformation programs in regulated industries.

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