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About the Role

Lead the development and evolution of the enterprise-wide data architecture, ensuring data is a strategic asset that enables business growth, innovation, and informed decision-making. Provide architectural leadership across data platforms, analytics, AI, governance, and information management, shaping how data is structured, governed, secured, and utilized. Define the long-term data vision, drive key enterprise initiatives, and oversee the data estate to align with business objectives.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve Cabot's enterprise data architecture, establishing standards, principles, and roadmaps.
Provide architectural leadership across data platforms, cloud technologies, analytics, AI, and governance.
Act as the design authority for significant data initiatives, offering guidance, governance, and assurance.
Lead and coordinate Cabot's Data Forum, providing enterprise-wide oversight of data architecture priorities, risks, dependencies, and strategic decisions.
Collaborate with Data, IT, Cloud, Information Security, and Business Architecture teams to ensure alignment.
Drive the modernization of the data estate, including cloud adoption, platform optimization, data migration, and legacy environment rationalization.
Establish and promote best practices in data governance, metadata management, data quality, privacy, retention, and stewardship.
Define architecture patterns that enable advanced analytics, AI, and data-driven decision-making.
Embed cost transparency and optimization principles into architecture decisions.
Evaluate emerging technologies and provide strategic recommendations for data and digital transformation.

Requirements

Proven experience in Enterprise Data Architecture, Data Platform Architecture, or a similar senior technology leadership role.
Strong expertise in modern data platforms and cloud technologies, particularly Microsoft Azure and Databricks.
Experience designing and governing enterprise-scale data, analytics, and information architectures across complex environments.
Sound understanding of data governance, security, privacy, data quality, and regulatory requirements.
Experience leading data modernization, migration, and transformation initiatives, including cloud adoption and legacy platform rationalization.
Strong knowledge of data integration, modeling, metadata management, and enterprise data architecture best practices.
Ability to develop strategic roadmaps and translate long-term architectural vision into practical delivery plans.
Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience collaborating across Architecture, Data, IT, Cloud, and Information Security functions to deliver business outcomes.
Experience within financial services or another highly regulated industry (Desirable).
Knowledge of AI, machine learning, and GenAI architectures and their data requirements (Desirable).
Understanding of FinOps principles, cloud cost optimization, and technology investment decision-making (Desirable).
Experience supporting enterprise architecture governance, data forums, or data governance initiatives (Desirable).
Familiarity with data products, data mesh, or federated data operating models (Desirable).
Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, or DAMA-DMBOK (Desirable).
Must have full right to work in the UK.
Successful candidates will undergo a basic credit check and criminal background check.

Skills

Microsoft Azure
Databricks
Data Governance
Metadata Management
Data Quality
Data Privacy
Data Retention
Data Stewardship
Data Integration
Data Modeling
Enterprise Data Architecture
Cloud Technologies
Analytics
AI
Machine Learning
GenAI
FinOps
TOGAF
DAMA-DMBOK

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Permanent
Hybrid

Experience Level

Experienced
Senior

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary
Fantastic bonus scheme

Benefits

Discount and cash back on hundreds of high-street shops
Private health insurance

About the Company

Cabot Credit Management is an award-winning, Investors in People Gold accredited organization.
We are passionate about the ethical treatment of our customers and employees.
Our mission is to create pathways to economic freedom.
Our vision is to make credit accessible by partnering with our consumers to restore their financial health.
Diversity and inclusion are very important to us at Cabot, and we value a multitude of diverse talent within our business.
We want everyone to be themselves at work and encourage a culture that includes everyone.
Our policies ensure that every candidate and employee are treated fairly and with equal opportunities.
We are highly regulated by our clients.

Equal Opportunity

Our policies ensure that every candidate and employee are treated fairly and with equal opportunities.