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# Lead Data Architect / Modeller

- **Company:** Sanderson Recruitment Plc
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £182,000.0 - £195,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Data Architecture, Data Structures, Operational Data Store, Snowflake, Event Driven Architecture
- **Published:** October 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/lead-data-architect/sanderson-recruitment-job108092279

## About the Role

* Strong Data Architecture and Data Modelling background
 * Fintech background
 * Excellent conceptual and logical data modelling experience
 * Experience designing data structures supporting operational workflows / case management
 * Strong understanding of business requirements and the ability to translate them into scalable data models
 * Modern event-driven architecture experience
 * Strong stakeholder engagement and the confidence to challenge the business and engineering teams where appropriate
 * Able to operate at both business/conceptual level and technical architecture level

Lead Data Architect / Modeller, FinTech, Snowflake, outside IR35

## Description

Working with a Fintech who are looking for a Lead Data Architect / Modeller to ensure the platform's data is structured correctly from the outset and can scale with business demand - this will be for someone to own the long-term data architecture and modelling between the engineering team who are focused on building and the analytics team who are consuming data.

Lead Data Architect / Modeller, responsibilities:

 * Define business-led conceptual data model across operational processes
 * Design / shape the operational data architecture
 * Ensure enterprise data models are scalable, consistent and reusable
 * Help define the semantic layer
 * Work closely with business stakeholders to understand how processes operate
 * Challenge requirements
 * Review existing direction and identify architectural or modelling issues