Senior Data & AI Architect (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Data & AI Architect (Fintech): Designing and overseeing data and AI architectures to align with business strategy and regulatory obligations in the financial services sector with an accent on data integration, analytics, and Agentic AI. Focus on building scalable, secure data models, grounding AI solutions in corporate data, and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Location: Stirling, UK (Flexible working arrangements available)

Company

A long-standing savings and investments firm combining asset management and insurance expertise.

What you will do

• Define and maintain enterprise, domain, and solution-level data architectures aligned with business strategies.
• Design logical and physical data models supporting operational, analytical, and AI use cases.
• Establish architecture standards, principles, patterns, and reference architectures.
• Provide architectural oversight to delivery teams, ensuring designs are secure and resilient.
• Collaborate with business, security, and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into robust solutions.
• Mentor colleagues and promote best practices in data and AI architecture.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of core data architecture, data modeling, and information management.
• Real-world experience grounding AI solutions in corporate structured and unstructured data.
• Understanding of the evolving architecture stack for Agentic AI.
• Experience designing data solutions for analytics, reporting, and Machine Learning workloads.
• Experience working within the Financial Services sector, including awareness of regulatory and risk considerations.
• Ability to communicate complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Culture & Benefits

• Valuable pension scheme with significant employer contributions (up to 13%).
• 38 days of annual leave including bank holidays, with options to purchase additional days.
• Comprehensive Inspiring Families policy providing paid parental leave.
• Private healthcare, critical illness cover, and life assurance.
• Inclusive work environment with employee-led networks and Disability Confident Leader certification.