Head of Data Management

Director — Enterprise Data Architecture & Governance

Base c. £140-175k + bonus and LTIP (flexible for the right hire)

35 days leave │ 14 % pension │ full family healthcare

Purpose

Establish and scale a single enterprise data backbone for a global retail-investing and pensions platform (~£400 bn AUA), enabling regulatory-grade lineage, real-time analytics, and API-driven product innovation.

You will be tasked with the front, middle and back-office solution, defining the interactions, integration and data model transformation.

Candidate with no Investment or Asset Management experience are not being considered for this role at this time.

12-Month Success Metrics

1. Publish an enterprise-wide canonical data model covering custody, wrappers, trading, and digital touchpoints.
2. Stand-up policy-as-code controls delivering automated Consumer Duty & CASS MI.
3. Migrate 60 % of legacy ETL into an event-stream / Snowflake lakehouse pattern, cutting report latency to < 60 sec.
4. Embed data-product operating model across UK & India hubs; uplift data-literacy score by 25 %.

Core Accountabilities

• Architecture & Design Authority: Define reference architectures, patterns, and guardrails for data ingestion, storage, lineage, and access.
• Governance & Quality: Chair Data Design Council; own enterprise glossary, DQ KPIs, and remediation backlog.
• RegTech Enablement: Automate regulatory reporting (MI-FID, PRIIPs, Consumer Duty) via policy-as-code pipelines.
• Platform Modernisation: Drive shift from batch ETL to event-driven streaming; partner with cloud-engineering on Snowflake, Kafka, K8s.
• Vendor & Tooling Strategy: Rationalise BI, MDM, and metadata tooling; negotiate enterprise licences.
• Leadership & Change: Build and mentor a 20-30 FTE cross-location data-architecture guild; embed OKRs and agile ways of working.

Profile We’re After

• 12 + yrs enterprise-data architecture in regulated financial-services (wealth / pensions a plus).
• Hands-on design of lakehouse or cloud-data-platform (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift).
• Proven lineage & quality frameworks (Collibra, Atlan, Informatica, or equivalent).
• Deep grasp of UK/EU retail-investor regs (CASS, Consumer Duty, PRIIPs, GDPR).
• Track record steering £20-100 m change budgets and influencing C-suite & boards.
• Comfortable orchestrating UK/India delivery trains; SAFe / Spotify model experience desirable.

Location & Ways of Working

London HQ | Hybrid 2-3 days on-site.