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This is a key role responsible for designing the data architecture, platforms and foundations that will enable the bank to scale AI, analytics and data-driven products.\nThe ideal candidate will be a strong Azure-focused Data Architect with deep hands-on experience designing modern enterprise data platforms and a solid understanding of how data architecture needs to support AI, machine learning, analytics and GenAI workloads.\nKey Responsibilities:\nDefine and own the enterprise data architecture supporting AI, analytics and data products.\nDesign scalable, secure and high-performance Azure data platforms and architectures.\nDevelop modern data lake, lakehouse and data warehouse architectures.\nDefine data ingestion, integration, transformation, storage and consumption patterns across the organisation.\nWork closely with Data Engineers, Data Scientists, AI Engineers, Software Engineers and Product teams to ensure data platforms support production AI use cases.\nEstablish standards for data modelling, data governance, data quality, metadata, lineage and security.\nDesign architectures supporting both structured and unstructured data, including data required for GenAI and RAG applications.\nProvide architectural direction across real-time, batch and streaming data workloads.\nAssess emerging Azure and data technologies and determine their suitability for enterprise adoption.\nEnsure architecture meets banking requirements around security, privacy, regulatory compliance, resilience and scalability.\nHelp establish the technical foundations and standards for the new AI Lab.\nAzure Technology Stack\nStrong experience across the Microsoft Azure data ecosystem is essential, ideally including:\nAzure Data Lake Storage Gen2\nAzure Data Factory / Synapse Pipelines\nAzure Synapse Analytics\nMicrosoft Fabric and/or modern lakehouse architectures\nAzure Databricks\nAzure Event Hubs / streaming technologies\nAzure SQL / Cosmos DB\nMicrosoft Purview\nAzure security, networking and identity services\nAzure AI / Azure OpenAI and data architectures supporting GenAI and RAG\nIdeal Candidate:\n10+ years’ experience across Data Architecture, Data Engineering or Enterprise Data Platforms.\nStrong track record designing large-scale enterprise data architectures.\nDeep practical experience with Azure data technologies and cloud-native architecture.\nStrong understanding of data lakehouse, data warehouse, data mesh and modern data platform patterns.\nExperience with large-scale data integration, ETL/ELT, batch and streaming architectures.\nStrong knowledge of data modelling, governance, lineage, quality and security.\nExperience designing data platforms to support AI/ML and GenAI workloads.\nStrong understanding of cloud architecture, APIs, microservices and distributed systems.\nExperience within banking, financial services, fintech or another highly regulated environment would be highly advantageous.\nStrong communication skills and the ability to work with both senior stakeholders and highly technical engineering teams.\nWhat Will Differentiate You\nMy client is looking for a hands-on, technically credible Data Architect, rather than someone purely focused on governance or high-level documentation.\nThe strongest candidates will have a deep Azure technical foundation, have personally designed modern data platforms at scale, and understand how to build the data foundations required to support AI, analytics and GenAI in a banking environment.\nThis is an opportunity to join the AI Lab at an early stage and play a significant role in defining the data architecture and technology standards that will underpin its future AI capabilities.\nSalt is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4086,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T21:54:51Z"}],"liveness":{"score":24,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.408,"p_room":0.6,"age_days":45,"expected_fill_days":51,"reasons":["conf:31","agency","stale_co","urgency","velocity","win:late","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-data-architect","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/salt-data-architect.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T00:40:51Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":625,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4375,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}