Enterprise Architect, Party, Customer & Reference Data, Director

Join us as an Enterprise Architect for Party, Customer & Reference Data

• Join a team that is shaping the future of party and customer data management for the bank and help us unlock the full potential of our data
• You'll be defining the intentional architecture for party, customer and reference data, making sure that the current architecture being delivered by engineers best supports the enterprise and its long term strategy
• With valuable exposure, you’ll be building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the bank to ensure commercially focused decisions and to create long term value for the bank
• We're offering this role at director level

What you'll do

We’re embarking on a new and exciting phase of the bank’s transformation agenda, and party, customer and reference data architecture are at the heart of our mission to simplify, reduce risk and enable customer engagement and personalisation. This agenda is critical to driving simplification and delivering exceptional experience to our customers.

As an Enterprise Architect, you’ll be defining and communicating the current, resultant and target state architecture for party, customer and reference data. You’ll be making sure that the architecture links to, and is informed by, our overall strategy and architecture, and produces the architecture outcomes. We’ll look to you influence the development of business strategies within your function and across the bank, identifying transformational opportunities for our businesses and technology areas associated with both new and existing technologies.

In addition, you’ll understand and contribute to the broader data architecture strategy and effectively represent these in your engagements across the bank. You’ll also drive adoption and enforcement of data architecture across the bank and provide your expertise in party, customer and reference data architecture for the bank.

As well as this, you’ll be:

• Translating architecture roadmaps into packages of work that allow frequent incremental delivery of value to be included in product backlog
• Defining, creating and maintaining architecture models, roadmaps, standards and outcomes, using architecture strategies to ensure alignment to adjacent and higher level model
• Working closely with business owners, portfolio managers, product managers and release managers to define the target intentional architecture
• Leading complex and technically challenging architectural transformations, coordinating design and platform teams across domains
• Seeking out and utilising continuous feedback, fostering adaptive design and engineering practices to drive the collaboration of programmes and teams around a common technical vision
• Leading, influencing and governing party and customer data platform architectures ensuring these meet the bank’s party and customer data strategy demand
• Identifying gaps in data architecture culture and skills across your areas of management and influencing supporting plans to resolve, providing mentorship where necessary

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with a background in defining business and application architectures and roadmaps for complex enterprises. To thrive in this role, you’ll need deep knowledge and experience of party and data architecture, and good knowledge of application, integration and infrastructure architecture with sound knowledge of the remaining architecture disciplines. You’ll also need a background in systems development change life cycles, best practices and approaches, along with knowledge of hardware, software, application and systems engineering.

You’ll be subject matter expert for party, customer and reference data architecture for the bank,  influencing business and technology strategies across the franchises and functions. You’ll have excellent communication and influencing skills with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to colleagues, up to senior leadership level, along with a good understanding of Agile methodologies and experience of working in an Agile team.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Experience of developing, syndicating and communicating architectures, designs and proposals for action
• Knowledge of wider data architecture topics such as data modelling, data analysis, data integration, events, data storage and solution architecture
• Experience managing party and customer data designs and models
• An understanding of industry architecture frameworks, such as TOGAF and ArchiMate
• Knowledge and experience with MDM and RDM technologies and solutions
• Knowledge of party entity resolution and data survivorships challenges and patterns
• Strong collaboration, stakeholder management and problem solving skills
• Critical thinking skills, enabling you to cut through complexity, and make sound decisions and recommendations that are carefully balanced against risk

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

10/03/2025