Principal Data Architect IRC303866

Description

The Principal Data Solution Architect serves as the key technical authority and strategic engineer for multi-million-pound initiatives within the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) sectors. You will act as the executive face of technical delivery to client C-suites (CDO, CIO, CTO), bridging high-level data strategy with globally distributed engineering execution. Operating at the intersection of cloud engineering, modern data platforms, and strict regulatory compliance, the architect establishes future-proof data modeling and company-wide technical standards while driving key legacy-to-cloud modernizations.

Requirements

• Industry Leadership: 15+ years of digital engineering or IT consulting experience within BFSI, leading complex enterprise transformations.
• Platform Expertise: Deep technical proficiency in modern data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake) and toolsets (dbt, Airflow, Kafka).
• Advanced Architecture & AI: Mastery of Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Streaming, MLOps, and GenAI integration to drive continuous innovation.
• Governance & Compliance: Expertise in zero-trust security, lineage, privacy (GDPR, CCPA), and financial regulations (BCBS 239, DORA, Basel).
• DataOps & MLOps Execution: Track record of establishing automated CI/CD pipelines and agile practices that accelerate time-to-value.
• Executive Advisory: Strong C-suite presence (CDO, CIO, CTO) aligning technical architecture with high-level business strategy.
• Value Realization: Proven ability to convert technical and AI capabilities into measurable business ROI and strategic impact.
• Education: Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, or a related quantitative field.

Job responsibilities

• Architect and own enterprise data estates across modern cloud platforms (Databricks, Snowflake), operational platforms, and warehouses.
• Establish company-wide data modeling standards balancing data quality, trust, and operational agility.
• Translate business goals into scalable technical blueprints, architectural principles, and governance frameworks.
• Lead legacy-to-cloud modernizations enabling zero-copy sharing, unified lineage, and AI/LLM workloads.
• Pilot emerging architectural patterns and define enterprise technical standards.
• Guide cross-functional engineering teams (Ingestion, BI, QA, DevOps) to deliver resilient architectures.
• Standardize tooling, schema evolution frameworks, and canonical modeling guidelines across teams.
• Enforce modern practices including CI/CD, IaC, automated testing, and DataOps telemetry.
• Ensure architectures comply with info-security, privacy, and regulatory standards (BCBS 239, DORA, GDPR, HIPAA).
• Uphold SM&CR standards and regulatory alignment with authorities such as the FCA and PRA.
• Embed automated taxonomy, schema drift detection, and data lineage controls into production pipelines.
• Mentor engineering leads and technical talent, cultivating an agile and accountable delivery culture.
• Present architectural roadmaps and technical visions to executive leadership and C-suite stakeholders.
• Drive presales efforts by converting complex business requirements into actionable technical roadmaps.
• Partner with Technical Delivery Leads to ensure seamless execution aligned with architectural integrity.

 

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What we offer

Our goal is to build an inclusive positive culture where everyone can feel comfortable being themselves, empowering people to create their own high standards and therefore more value. We work together to promote fairness while recognising, valuing and embracing differences – providing a transparent support structure and generous training budget to help our people develop skills to progress their career. Our region supports a hybrid model that can flex across a wide spectrum of working options determined by business, customer and individual needs.

You'll benefit from a comprehensive health and wellness plan, private healthcare (clinical and mental wellbeing), discounted gym memberships, and in office yoga sessions and massages. We offer a fantastic benefits package including a competitive pension scheme and recognition schemes through bonus/reward initiatives. Colleagues are entitled to an annual volunteering day – so you can take time to support a cause close to your heart. We also love to stay social with trips to the zoo, quiz nights, sports events, theatre trips and much more.

We are an equal opportunities employer. It is our policy to promote an environment free from discrimination, harassment and victimisation, and we actively welcome applications from people with a disability or long-term health condition. As users of the Disability Confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for this vacancy.

We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments. If you require any adjustments for the application process, the interview, or the job itself, or if you need this information in an accessible format, please contact uki-careers@globallogic.com.

About GlobalLogic

GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group Company, is a trusted digital engineering partner to the world’s largest and most forward-thinking companies. Since 2000, we’ve been at the forefront of the digital revolution – helping create some of the most innovative and widely used digital products and experiences. Today we continue to collaborate with clients in transforming businesses and redefining industries through intelligent products, platforms, and services.