Data Architect - Banking

We are looking for a Data Architect with 10+ years in data, including 4+ years in banking and a hands-on data engineering background. Must-have skills Banking and domain • Data platform design inside tier-1 or large regional banks. • Banking data models (Teradata FSLDM or equivalent) across customer, account, payments and AML/CFT subject areas. • Financial crime or regulatory data marts built to BCBS 239 standards for lineage, reconciliation and audit. Data architecture • Enterprise data warehouse, data lake and Lakehouse architecture; Data Mesh and Data Fabric concepts. • Data modelling: dimensional, 3NF and Data Vault; semantic layers and data products. • Historical data design: snapshots, SCD Type 2, bi-temporal models and large multi-grain backfills. • Data-as-a-service patterns across batch and API delivery, with lineage, observability and SLA monitoring. • Metadata, business glossary, lineage and data quality frameworks. Data engineering (hands-on) • ETL/ELT development, CDC, historical data processing, metadata-driven automation frameworks and performance optimisation. • Teradata and Hadoop/Cloudera at scale: warehouses of 100 TB+ and tables of billions of rows. • Spark, Python, R, SQL, Hive, Impala, HBase, Pig and Hue; Apache Iceberg and Trino. • Streaming and integration: Kafka, Spark Streaming, Informatica (including IDL) and Talend. • Databases and data federation: advanced SQL, NoSQL, Denodo and Snowflake. • Cloud and DevOps: Kubernetes, Airflow, GitOps and CI/CD tools. Delivery and communication • Running design authority forums and reviewing engineers’ designs and code. • Writing design specifications that pass architecture, audit and regulatory review. Good-to-have skills • Databricks, Snowflake and Lakehouse platforms; data services on Azure, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud or Alibaba Cloud. • BI and analytics platforms: Qlik Sense, Microsoft Power BI and Azure analytics services. Certifications (preferred): TOGAF; Teradata Vantage; Cloudera; DAMA CDMP; Databricks or cloud architect