Are you ready to chart your own career path? With our refreshed strategy, we’re building on our rich heritage and transforming our business to be more scalable and efficient, unlocking the capabilities needed for future success. This includes significantly investing in technology, streamlining the way we work and creating an environment where colleagues feel engaged, empowered and accountable; where they can show up, speak up and perform - because we believe in the difference our work makes.
At a glance:
Location: Cirencester Office
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Employment Type: 9 month Fixed-Term Contract
Seniority: Mid-Senior Level
The Data and Insights Division is comprised of four key areas:
- Data Governance and Intelligence.
- Data Acquisition, Quality, Strategy and Literacy.
- Data Architecture, Platform and Engineering.
This presents an opportunity to design a data strategy aligned with the organization’s goals and implement the delivery of data effectively. D&I enables SJP to leverage value from its data through actionable insights and data led decision making.
The Data Architecture, Platform and Engineering (DAPE) Division integrates architecture, platform and engineering to establish guidelines, principles and development standards for building a secure, resilient data platform for the future. It plays a key role in supporting the SJP data ecosystem, driving towards the SJP data strategy and advancing the decommissioning roadmap.
You will be responsible for the delivery and recommendations of design options, and architectural blueprints/artefacts that enable the architecture to be pragmatically developed and operated.
Working across value streams, platforms and projects you will integral to the delivery of our data strategy ensuring the data is fit for purpose.
- Develop and maintain the overall data architecture, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Design conceptual, logical and physical data models for scalable and efficient databases.
- Assisting with the Data Platform standards ensuring best practice
- Delivering and recommending design options, and architectural blueprints/artefacts (including guiderails), that enable the architecture to be pragmatically developed and operated.
- Define standards, policies and guidelines to ensure consistency and compliance across systems.
- Develop and be responsible for data Integration strategies to connect multiple systems and ensure seamless data flow.
We are looking for a data enthusiast, passionate about data accuracy, consistency, validity, integrity, and the value that excellent data delivers!
You will be an experienced Data Architect who is at ease in a high-speed setting! You will contribute significantly to ensuring decisions are guided by data to advance our strategic goals.
You work cross-functionally, communicate clearly, and balance technical detail with business needs. You’re comfortable crafting data solutions and supporting teams through delivery.
- Snowflake, Data modelling experience
- Experience in a data development environment – with some gained in Financial Services or regulated and/or Cloud Environments.
- Focus on data, agile practices, transformation programs, product ownership and business engagement
- Significant experience in data modelling – conceptual, logical, and physical.
- Ability to devise a conceptual business Information model that engages with the target audience in a clear and succinct manner
- Wealth management or regulated financial services, preferably with a FTSE 100 UK Retail Bank, Wealth Manager or Fintech.
What's in it for you:
Private Medical - up to family cover paid for by Company– via BUPA.
Significant protection benefits with real value, such as 10X life cover, PHI, and critical illness.
- Non-Contributory Pension – 10% (increasing with length of service up to 15%) with further pension matching.
- Parental leave – 6 months full pay
- 28 days holiday entitlement plus bank holidays (based on full-time equivalent) with the option to buy an additional up to 5 days
- Not applicable to fixed term contracts (standard uplift applies in lieu of the protection benefits)
We know that everyone works best in different ways, at different times and in different environments. We have introduced a hybrid working policy to provide greater flexibility for part-time work, job-sharing, remote working, and flexibility on hours. Our people are encouraged to work in a flexible way that suits their lifestyle, so please ask the question and start a conversation!
Research tells us that applicants (especially those from underrepresented groups) can be put off from applying for a role if they do not meet all the criteria or have been on an extended career-break. If you think you would be a good match for this role and can demonstrate some transferable experience please apply, regardless of whether you tick every box.
We're an equal opportunities employer and want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible and inclusive for all, if you require reasonable adjustment(s) at any stage please let us know by emailing us at [email protected]
What's in it for you?
We reward you for the work you do, whether that’s through our discretionary annual bonus scheme that reflects both personal and company performance, competitive annual leave allowance (28 days plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase an additional 5 days), or online rewards platform with a variety of discounts.
We also have benefits to support whatever stage of life you are in, including:
- Competitive parental leave (26 weeks full pay)
- Private medical insurance (optional taxable benefit)
- 10% non-contributory pension (increasing with length of service)
Reasonable Adjustments
We're an equal opportunities employer and want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible and inclusive for all, if you require reasonable adjustment(s) at any stage please let us know by emailing us at [email protected]
Research tells us that applicants (especially those from underrepresented groups) can be put off from applying for a role if they do not meet all the criteria or have been on an extended career-break. If you think you would be a good match for this role and can demonstrate some transferable experience please apply, regardless of whether you tick every box.
What's next?
If you're excited about this role and believe you have the skills and experience we're looking for, we'd love to hear from you! Please submit an application by clicking ‘apply’ below and our team will be in touch.
As a business regulated by the FCA we would advise you to familiarise yourself with the conduct regulations and in particular consumer duty obligations prior to an interview with SJP.
