Data Model and Requirements Manager - Quilter in Southampton

About the Business

Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation. Quilter oversees £141.2 billion in customer investments (as at end December 2025). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth.

Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business. High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning - offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues. Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it's the perfect time to join us!

About the Role

• Level: 5
• Department: CDO
• Location: Southampton or London
• Contract type: Permanent

The Data Model and Requirements Manager plays a critical role in shaping Quilter's enterprise data landscape. Sitting within the Chief Data Office (CDO) and reporting to the Head of Data Platform, this role ensures that business requirements are accurately captured, translated into robust data models, and governed effectively across the organisation. You will be responsible for defining modelling standards, ensuring data consistency across domains, and partnering closely with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality, well-designed data assets that support actionable insights and strategic decision-making.

The key accountabilities for the role are as follows:

• Team Management & Growth: Lead a small team of Business Data Analysts / Data Modelers through coaching, mentorship, and technical guidance. Support individual career development and performance feedback, creating growth opportunities for your team. Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performance team culture.
• Requirements Management: Lead the capture, refinement, and documentation of detailed business and technical requirements for data initiatives. Act as the primary liaison between business SMEs and technical delivery teams, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and traceability of requirements. Translate complex business processes into structured requirements, process maps, user stories, and acceptance criteria. Maintain a prioritised backlog aligned to strategic objectives and data platform capabilities.
• Data Modelling Leadership: Own the enterprise logical and conceptual data models for assigned domains, ensuring they align with Quilter's reference architectures. Define, evolve, and enforce data modelling standards (e.g., Kimball, Data Vault, canonical models). Review engineering and analytics deliverables to ensure alignment to approved models. Ensure data is structured to support analytics, reporting, operational processes, and regulatory needs. Maintain metadata, lineage, and model documentation within Quilter's data catalogue and governance tools.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineers, analysts, architects, and product managers to ensure technical delivery aligns with business intent. Work closely with governance teams to embed data quality rules, ownership structures, and compliance standards into models and requirements. Facilitate workshops to drive stakeholder understanding of data requirements, domain boundaries, and business rules. Influence project scoping, sequencing, and planning from a data requirements perspective.
• Operational & Governance Excellence: Ensure models and requirements adhere to data governance, privacy, and regulatory expectations (e.g., GDPR, retention rules). Define and maintain glossaries, data definitions, and business rules across domains. Support incident analysis where data quality, lineage, or model interpretation is a factor. Promote consistent modelling patterns to reduce duplication and improve data reuse across Quilter.

About You

• Qualifications: Degree in a technical discipline (e.g. computer science, engineering, maths, physics) or evidence of equivalent practical experience.
• Knowledge & Experience: Significant experience in data modelling, including conceptual, logical, and physical models. Experience with Kimball, Data Vault, canonical modelling, and enterprise data modelling techniques. Strong background in requirements gathering across complex technical and business environments. Familiarity with Azure data ecosystem, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, and modern data platforms. Understanding of metadata management, cataloguing, lineage, and access governance. Experience supporting multiple squads or projects simultaneously with structured modelling and requirements practices. Knowledge of regulatory expectations such as GDPR, retention, and data governance controls. Ability to interpret data designs, schemas, and engineering documentation.
• Skills: Skilled in translating business needs into precise, structured, and well-documented requirements. Strong communication skills - able to simplify complex concepts for non-technical stakeholders. Proficient in modelling tools (e.g., Erwin, PowerDesigner, Lucidchart, Synapse/Fabric modelling tools). High attention to detail, analytical rigour, and structured problem-solving. Comfortable challenging assumptions and guiding stakeholders to well-designed solutions. Able to influence without authority and drive alignment across technical and business teams.

Inclusion & Diversity

We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.

Values

• Do the right thing: We act with integrity and are proudly committed to going above and beyond in service of our clients and the support we provide our communities.
• Always curious: We continuously seek new ideas and knowledge so we're one step ahead of our clients' needs. We look for inspiration everywhere and encourage experimentation, recognising that this is how we create brilliant solutions for brighter futures.
• Embrace challenge: We aim high to transform our potential into meaningful outcomes. With ambition as our driving force and a steadfast commitment to growth, we succeed for the good of every generation.
• Stronger together: Combining our diverse talents, we accomplish more collectively than we ever could do alone. We speak openly, actively listen, and support each other, and constructively challenge and embrace new ideas. We seek empowerment and demonstrate ownership and trust, with the confidence to make impactful decisions.

Core Benefits

• Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)
• Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.
• Pension Scheme: A non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.
• Private Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard with options to increase cover to include your partner or children.
• Life Assurance: 4x your salary.
• Income Protection: 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.
• Healthcare Cash Plan: Jersey employees only.

In addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits to UK employees that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.