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Base c. £140-155 k + bonus and LTIP (flexible for the right hire)
35 days leave │ 14 % pension │ full family healthcare
Purpose
Establish and scale a single enterprise data backbone for a global retail-investing and pensions platform (~£400 bn AUA), enabling regulatory-grade lineage, real-time analytics, and API-driven product innovation.
You will be tasked with the front, middle and back-office solution, defining the interactions, integration and data model transformation.
Candidate with no Investment or Asset Management experience are not being considered for this role!
12-Month Success Metrics
* Publish an enterprise-wide canonical data model covering custody, wrappers, trading, and digital touchpoints.
* Stand-up policy-as-code controls delivering automated Consumer Duty & CASS MI.
* Migrate 60 % of legacy ETL into an event-stream / Snowflake lakehouse pattern, cutting report latency to < 60 sec.
* Embed data-product operating model across UK & India hubs; uplift data-literacy score by 25 %.
* Architecture & Design Authority: Define reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails for data ingestion, storage, lineage, and access.
* Governance & Quality: Chair Data Design Council; own enterprise glossary, DQ KPIs, and remediation backlog.
* RegTech Enablement: Automate regulatory reporting (MI-FID, PRIIPs, Consumer Duty) via policy-as-code pipelines.
* Platform Modernisation: Drive shift from batch ETL to event-driven streaming; partner with cloud-engineering on Snowflake, Kafka, K8s.
* Vendor & Tooling Strategy: Rationalise BI, MDM, and metadata tooling; negotiate enterprise licences.
* Leadership & Change: Build and mentor a 20-30 FTE cross-location data-architecture guild; embed OKRs and agile ways of working.
* 12 + yrs enterprise-data architecture in regulated financial-services (wealth / pensions a plus).
* Hands-on design of lakehouse or cloud-data-platform (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift).
* Proven lineage & quality frameworks (Collibra, Atlan, Informatica, or equivalent).
* Deep grasp of UK/EU retail-investor regs (CASS, Consumer Duty, PRIIPs, GDPR).
* Track record steering £20-100 m change budgets and influencing C-suite & boards.
Location & Ways of Working
London HQ | Hybrid 2-3 days on-site.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Director
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Information Technology
* Industries
Financial Services and Technology, Information and Media
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