Data Architect
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 9, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 9, 2026.
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Data Architect
About the job
Architecture serves a pivotal role in transforming the IT landscape to facilitate ICBCS to achieve its business objective. It enforces the discipline of thorough design processes from the conception to the delivery of a strategy or change. It works closely with other key functions such as business change and IT delivery to develop competencies to better serve our business aspirations.
The person appointed will be an integral member of the Architecture Team and will be responsible for the design and implementation of the enterprise wide data strategy, ensuring the strategy supports the current and future business needs.
The role will involve collaborating with Business and IT stakeholders at all levels to ensure the enterprise data strategy and associated implementation is adding value to the business
What you’ll be doing
- Develop and evolve the enterprise wide data strategy to support delivery of corporate objectives
- Be a key stakeholder and advisor in all new strategic data initiatives and ensure alignment to the enterprise wide data strategy
- Build a framework of principles to ensure data integrity across the business (including but not limited to ERP, CRM, BI, Data warehouse, external interfaces etc.
- Ensure that the Data Architecture strategy and roadmap is aligned to the business and technology strategies.
- Build and maintain appropriate Enterprise Architecture artefacts including; Entity Relationship Models, Data dictionary, taxonomy to aid data traceability
- Provide technical oversight to solution delivery in creating business driven solutions adhering to the enterprise architecture and data governance standards
- Be an advocate of data security principles and ensure appropriate security practices are embedded in any data strategy
- Be an active contributor to how the bank evolves Data Governance practices and influence the adoption of data standards
- Develop key performance measures for data integration and quality
- Support third party data suppliers in developing specifications that are congruent with the Enterprise data architecture
What you’ll need to be successful
We’re looking for the following skills and experience. If you don’t have all of these but think you could be a good fit for the role, get in touch.
- Undergraduate Computer Science or Engineering qualification
- Experience of working in an investment bank in a variety of technical roles
- Proven experience in architecting and implementing Business Intelligence and Data warehouse platforms, Master data Management, data integration and OLTP database solutions
- Broad and deep knowledge of a Capital Market data domains e.g. Trade, Sensitivities, Market Data, etc.
- Possess in-depth knowledge of and able to consult on various technologies Strong knowledge of industry best practices around data architecture in both cloud based and on prem solutions
- Strong analytical and numerical skills are essential, enabling easy interpretation and analysis of large volumes of data
- A comprehensive understanding of the principles of and best practices behind data engineering, and the supporting technologies such as RDBMS, NoSQL, Cache & In-memory stores
- Experience of architecting data solution across hybrid (cloud, on premise) data platforms. A comprehensive understanding of data warehousing and data transformation (extract, transform and load) processes and the supporting technologies such as Amazon Glue, EMR, Azure Data Factory, Data Lake, other analytics products Experience implementing data solutions
- Excellent problem solving and data modelling skills (logical, physical, sematic and integration models) including; normalisation, OLAP / OLTP principles and entity relationship analysis
- Experience of mapping key Enterprise data entities to business capabilities and applications
- A strong knowledge of horizontal data lineage from source to output
- Excellent communication and presentational skills, confident and methodical approach, and able to work within a team environment
Why should you join us?
ICBC Standard Bank Plc (ICBCS) is a leading financial markets and commodities bank, driven to deliver the right outcomes for our stakeholders, clients, counterparties and markets. We benefit from a unique Chinese and African parentage and an unrivalled global network and expertise. We’re headquartered in London, with operations in Shanghai, Singapore and New York.
We’re a diverse and close-knit global team. We put people first, giving talented, self-driven professionals the flexibility, rewards and freedom to grow their expertise and realise their potential.
Our vison statement, “Be Yourself, Succeed Together” underpins our drive for an open and transparent culture which values difference, enabling everyone to thrive whilst being themselves. We have an active E, D&I forum and we’re growing other employee network groups, including for women and neurodiversity.
We’re committed to the principle of equal opportunities. All applicants will be treated equally and will be considered on their merits and skills without discrimination.
What’s in it for you?
- Financial - market-based pay based on skills and experience, discretionary annual bonus, pension contribution 10% (employee contribution 5%), travel insurance, life assurance and income replacement insurance.
- Hybrid working - the option to work remotely up to two days per week, depending on the role.
- Family - 6 months maternity leave at full pay, 4 weeks paternity leave at full pay and enhanced shared parental leave pay. Coaching for family leave returners and access to emergency care via My Family Care. Paid fertility and miscarriage leave.
- Wellbeing - private medical insurance, Bike2Work scheme, health and fitness subsidy, holiday exchange, Employee Assistance Programme and menopause policy.
- Community - paid volunteering leave and Give As You Earn scheme. Vibrant CSR and engagement forums and fundraising for our charity partners.
- Development - a suite of opportunities to build the skills you need to excel in your role
If you’re excited about becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!
ICBCS has appointed Robert Walters Outsourcing (RWO) to manage its recruitment process and Preferred Supplier List (PSL). Unsolicited CVs sent directly to ICBCS or its staff from non-PSL agencies will not be accepted and no fees will be paid for such submissions.
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