Data Architect; FTC

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Collaborating with senior stakeholders, Change and Technology teams, and business representatives, the Data Architect will lead design, implementation, and management of the Trinity Bridge data strategy and platform to support business needs and enable the strategic business transformation journey.

• Document and define how data is stored, organised, integrated and accessed across core systems and repositories.
• Define the target state data architecture aligned with business objectives, together with transition states which support and enable the business transformation.
• Lead definition of current and future data mastering and associated inter-system flows for client data and other primary data domains.

• Design and maintain data models (conceptual, logical, and physical) to ensure data consistency, integrity, and quality.
• Establish and manage a taxonomy and metadata to enable consistent data mapping and access across the core source platforms.

• Establish a data governance framework defining how key structured and unstructured data is stored, maintained, and managed within Trinity Bridge to satisfy data quality, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Establish and maintain a data catalogue through which to document and manage data definitions and lineage.
• Define and monitor data quality metrics to measure and improve data quality over time.

• Lead the design and implementation of the Trinity Bridge Snowflake data platform structure, schemas, roles, policies, and standards, ensuring alignment with applicable aspects of the data strategy and data governance framework.
• Drive appropriate use of Snowflake data shares and the Snowflake marketplace as sources of third-party data to provide commercial, efficiency, and/or security benefits.
• Ensure the Snowflake data platform provides effective support for the business across reporting, data science and analytics, along with the platform's role as a central component within the overall systems architecture.
• Establish data policies across development and test environments, ensuring data access and masking rules are appropriate, aligned with the data governance framework, and applied consistently.

• Establish and run the data platform design authority forum.
• Work with colleagues within the IT Infrastructure team to monitor and manage Snowflake usage, performance, and credit consumption.

• Provide support for the Technology Leadership Team in strategic IT decisions including selection of data-related technologies and implementation of AI-enabled solutions.
• Provide data and technology thought leadership into the Trinity Bridge business transformation agenda and relevant communities of practice.
• Work closely with business stakeholders, data analysts, data scientists, and IT teams to understand data requirements and provide solutions.
• Facilitate adoption of self-serve data reporting and analysis across the business through provision of a clear and consistent data platform schema and associated data dictionary.

• Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the regulatory framework relevant to the role, whilst practising effective risk management taking account of outcomes for clients.
• Understand, follow and demonstrate compliance with all relevant internal and external rules, regulations and procedures that apply to the conduct of the business. Follow principles and rules of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the internal requirements set out in the Compliance Manual, local and Group Compliance and Risk policies.

• Experience migrating and building enterprise data platforms.
• Experience with data governance, compliance regulations, and data quality assurance.
• Strong understanding of Master Data Management theory and application.
• Proven success in data modelling, data warehousing, and implementing data governance processes.
• Hands‑on experience with the Snowflake data platform and architecture.
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and data…