Data Architect
Manchester, United Kingdom
NatWest Group
NatWest Group - Supporting customers, news, investors and sustainabilityJoin us as a Data Architect
This is an opportunity for an experienced Data Architect to help us define the high-level data architecture and design for your assigned scope that provides solutions to deliver great business outcomes and meet our longer term strategy
You’ll define and communication of 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
We’ll look to you to influence and support architecture, platform, and domain teams on the data delivery, ensuring data is considered throughout the requirements, design and delivery lifecycle. Partnering with the wider technology teams, including the central data team, solution architects, infrastructure architects within your domain, and platform teams, you’ll design and manage the data lifecycle.
We’ll look to you to elaborate on the solution and its interfaces, validate technology assumptions, evaluate implementation alternatives, and create 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 and incremental delivery of customer value.
On top of this, you’ll be:
Owning the technical design issues and driving resolution through the iteration of the technical solution design
Participating in activities to shape requirements, validating designs and prototypes to deliver change that aligns with the target 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
Translating business requirements into technical specifications, including but not limited to, database schemas, streaming structures and API specifications
Promoting the accessibility, accuracy and security of data through efficient data management
The skills you'll need
You’ll bring expert knowledge of designing data intensive applications, 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:
A solid knowledge of modern data management practices and technologies
Experience of defining application 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, systems engineering, cloud, event streaming, microservices and APIs
The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to peers and leadership level colleagues
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
09/04/2025Ways of Working:Remote First* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: Agile APIs Architecture Data management Engineering Microservices Security Streaming TOGAF
Perks/benefits: Career development Team events
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