Senior Information Architect

Salary: £32,000 - 72,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience in data architecture, data engineering, or information management
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or a related discipline
• Proven enterprise data modelling experience at conceptual, logical, and physical levels
• Hands-on SqlDBM experience, or equivalent modern toolset
• Proven experience with dbt Labs
• Strong Python skills, including API integration and automation
• Practical Snowflake and Databricks experience, including Cortex AI and Genie
• Working knowledge of OWL, RDF, SPARQL, and enterprise ontology design
• Experience with at least one agentic AI framework
• GitHub Copilot, or equivalent AI coding assistant experience in a professional setting
• Financial services background preferred
• BCBS 239 awareness advantageous
• Right to work in the United Kingdom at the time of application and for the duration of employment

Responsibilities:

• Lead and contribute to conceptual, logical, and physical data model design aligned to our data mesh and medallion architectures
• Govern and maintain the enterprise data model library in SqlDBM, enforcing naming conventions, domain standards, and versioning
• Define and steward canonical data entities and lineage across source, integration, and consumption layers
• Translate business requirements into rigorous data structures in collaboration with engineering and domain teams
• Guide teams on the design and effective use of semantic data models, including their application to agentic AI solutions
• Integrate semantic layers with business glossaries, data catalogues, and lineage tooling
• Design and maintain semantic models to support agentic-AI capabilities
• Help develop ontologies, taxonomies, and controlled vocabularies underpinning enterprise metadata and search
• Define semantic modelling standards and patterns to ensure consistent meaning, interoperability, and AI readiness across data products
• Guide and control the creation of data domains that align with our underlying capabilities
• Design data product schemas across Snowflake and Databricks, including Delta Lake structures and access patterns
• Define and enforce architectural guardrails for data product design, including performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency
• Set design standards and review transformation pipelines for compliance
• Embed data contract standards and data quality frameworks across pipeline outputs
• Leverage Snowflake Cortex, Databricks Genie, or similar tools to help engineering teams deliver natural language query and LLM-augmented data products
• Utilize GitHub Copilot, or similar tools, to accelerate modelling, documentation, and pipeline development
• Design and define a set of agentic skills that can be provided to implementation teams
• Contribute to our AI Champion network, evaluating emerging capabilities and advising on adoption
• Act as a design authority for data architecture across teams and data domains
• Partner with enterprise, security, and risk architecture to ensure data solutions align with broader technology and regulatory standards
• Provide early-stage architectural input to initiative discovery and solution design to reduce delivery risk
• Present architecture decisions to senior stakeholders, architecture review boards, and regulatory audiences
• Support regulatory compliance through robust lineage, metadata management, and data quality evidence
• Mentor junior architects and engineers within our Information Architecture community of practice

Technologies:

• Agentic AI
• AI
• API
• Architect
• Copilot
• Databricks
• GitHub
• Support
• LLM
• Network
• Python
• RDF
• Security
• Snowflake
• dbt
• Cloud
• Data Vault
• Neo4J

More:

We are Northern Trust, a global leader in innovative wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services. Since 1889, we have guided some of the worlds most successful individuals, families, corporations, and institutions with our principles of Service, Expertise, and Integrity. Our team includes more than 24,000 partners worldwide, and we use leading technology and exceptional service to support sophisticated clients. This Senior Information Architect role sits within our Information Architecture team in London, shaping our enterprise data strategy, data modelling standards, and AI-enabled capabilities. We offer a flexible and collaborative work culture with strong financial strength and stability, encourage internal movement, and value accessibility of senior leaders, inclusion, and community involvement. We are also committed to reasonable accommodation for individuals with health conditions and disabilities.

last updated 36 week of 2026