Data Architect

Job Posting Title

Salary Band

£56,423 - £84, 634
Grade: MP1

Job Description

About the Role
As a Data Architect, you’ll be responsible for designing, creating, and managing data architecture across the Newcastle Building Society Group. You’ll establish a solid foundation for data management, ensuring that data is organised, accessible, secure and aligned with business objectives, alongside designing warehouses, file systems, data bases and defining how data will be collected and organised.

Data Governance and Quality will be a key focus of the role. You’ll design and implement processes for ETL, define and manage standards, guidelines and processes to ensure regulatory compliance and data quality, alongside establish best practices for data modelling, storage, integration, and security across structured and unstructured data sources.

You’ll interpret and deliver impactful strategic plans improving data integration, data quality, and data delivery in support of business initiatives and road maps, alongside implementing the long-term technology strategy and innovations roadmap across analytics, data engineering, and data platforms.

About You
You’ll have proven experience working as a Data Architect, with significant experience designing and implementing data models for enterprise data initiatives and experience leading projects involving data warehousing, data modelling and data analytics.

Proficiency in the design and implementation of modern data architecture and concepts such as cloud services (AWS, Azure or GCP), real-time data distribution (Kafka or Dataflow), and modern data warehouse tools (Snowflake or Databricks) is essential as it’s integral to our long-term vision.

Experience with business intelligence tools and technologies such as ETL, Power BI and Tableau, alongside an understanding or awareness of programming languages would beneficial, but isn’t essential.

About Us
The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities.

The Group provides traditional financial services, helping people own their own home, plan and manage their finances and operate a 32-branch network across the North-East, North-West, Cumbria and Yorkshire. Our Strategic Solutions subsidiary owns the UK’s leading savings management platform and provides managed technology services to new challenger banks and other established providers.

As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you. 

 
What do you get in return? As well as receiving a competitive annual salary based on above-market pay scales, our reward package includes:  

Financial 

• Corporate bonus scheme (on target 10%, up to a maximum 15%) 
• Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution) 
• Annual performance related pay reviews  
• Colleague mortgage scheme  
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme  
• Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection  
• Access to our financial advisers  
• Access to a range of high street and online discounts  

Work/Life Balance  

• A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions 
• 30 days’ annual leave + bank holidays 
• The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday  
• Hybrid working (typically 3 days’ home based) 
• Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood 

Health and Wellbeing  

• Private medical insurance  
• Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme  
• Access to an employee assistance programme  
• Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gym’s 
• Two paid volunteering days’ each year 
• Cycle to work scheme 

​Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy at adam.curran@newcastle.co.uk 

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