Senior Data Architect - Wealth & Asset Management

Salary: £65,000 - 105,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience delivering enterprise data architecture and cloud data engineering, including platform design within Wealth & Asset Management environments.
• Deep knowledge of contextual, logical, and physical data modelling practices across Front Office, Investments, Operations, and Risk/Compliance domains.
• Strong understanding of core Wealth & Asset Management data concepts, including client/householding, suitability and risk profiling, holdings/positions, trade lifecycle, pricing, performance, and fees.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based data ecosystems such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, including cloud migration and transformation programmes.
• Experience integrating and architecting around key Wealth & Asset Management platforms and data sources, including CRM, OMS/PMS, wealth back office, custody/fund accounting, Bloomberg/market data, and reporting layers.
• Understanding of data management tooling, security frameworks, and control environments within regulated financial services.
• Exposure to Wealth & Asset Management regulatory and ESG requirements, including MiFID II, SFDR, PRIIPs/KIDs, and FATCA, and their impact on data models, lineage, and controls.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage and influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Bonus points for data or cloud architecture certifications such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or Databricks.
• Bonus points for experience in data lake design and large-scale data migrations.
• Bonus points for familiarity with graph computing and semantic data modelling.
• Bonus points for a background in Financial Services with stakeholder management in complex environments.
• Bonus points for the ability to lead teams and contribute to the development of our data architecture propositions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and deliver complex data architecture initiatives across our Wealth & Asset Management clients.
• Guide wealth managers, asset managers, and private banks through large-scale data transformation journeys.
• Define enterprise data strategies across programmes and business units.
• Design target architectures and scalable, cloud-based platforms that support advisor and client experiences, investment analytics, regulatory reporting, and operational efficiency.
• Lead agile consulting engagements delivering modern data architecture and cloud transformation.
• Design canonical Wealth & Asset Management data domains and models, including client/household, portfolio/account, holdings/transactions, instruments and pricing, performance, and fees.
• Architect and deliver cloud-native data platforms on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Define integration patterns across core Wealth & Asset Management platforms such as CRM/advisor, OMS/PMS, wealth back office, custody, market/reference data, and reporting.
• Establish data quality, reconciliation, and control frameworks across holdings, books and records/AUM, pricing, corporate actions, fees, and NAV.
• Drive master and reference data strategies for clients, instruments, counterparties, and legal entities.
• Align data strategies with governance, metadata, privacy, and stewardship requirements.
• Act as a subject matter expert, translating complex technical concepts into clear business value for senior stakeholders.
• Contribute to our Wealth & Asset Management data architecture propositions and thought leadership in modern, cloud-native data ecosystems.

Technologies:

• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• Cloud
• CRM
• Databricks
• GCP
• Support
• Security

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We are Capco, a consulting firm delivering high-impact technology solutions for Tier 1 financial institutions. This is a permanent Senior Data Architect role within our Data & Analytics practice, based in London on a hybrid basis. You will join a collaborative, flat, and entrepreneurial culture where individuality is encouraged through our #BeYourselfAtWork mindset. We offer a competitive, people-first benefits package, including discretionary bonus, competitive pension, health insurance, life insurance, critical illness cover, mental health support, family-friendly leave, backup care, annual leave flexibility, continuous learning with a minimum of 40 hours of training each year, one-on-one business coaching from day one, healthcare access, and extra perks such as Gympass, travel insurance, Tastecard, season ticket loans, Cycle to Work, and dental insurance. We are committed to accessible recruitment and support reasonable adjustments throughout the process.

last updated 35 week of 2026