Data Architect in City of London

This role exists to own and elevate the company’s internal data and systems landscape end-to-end. The Data Architect is accountable for ensuring that core operational, commercial, and finance systems:

• Are well-architected, integrated, and scalable.
• Support automation and AI-enabled workflows.
• Produce reliable, decision-grade insight for leadership.

The role sits at the intersection of systems architecture and commercial insight:

• ~50% building, architecting, and continuously improving the data and systems stack.
• ~50% analysing performance, trends, and forecasts, and partnering with leadership to drive action.

Reporting directly to the CFO, this is a senior-facing role with regular exposure to the leadership team.

Responsibility scope

• End-to-end ownership of internal systems that underpin:

• Projects, delivery, timesheeting, and forecasting.
• CRM and pipeline management.
• Finance, billing, and revenue recognition.
• Reporting, analytics, and management insight.

Accountability for both:

• The individual tools themselves.
• The data model and integrations that connect them into a coherent operating platform.

Key expectations:

• Improve data consistency, definitions, and governance across systems.
• Reduce manual work, reconciliation, and spreadsheet dependency.
• Ensure systems are configured and used in a way that actually supports insight, not just process execution.

A significant portion of the systems landscape is mid-implementation or being re-architected: This role will play a hands-on part in design, configuration, and rollout. There is real opportunity to shape “how things work” rather than inherit a fixed setup.

Ongoing responsibilities include:

• Designing and maintaining a clean, scalable data architecture across tools.
• Driving a continuous improvement roadmap, rather than one-off projects.
• Incrementally increasing:

• Levels of automation.
• Quality and timeliness of data.
• Use of AI to support workflows, forecasting, and analysis.

Acts as the internal owner who:

• Understands how the tools should evolve as the business grows.
• Makes pragmatic trade-offs between speed, robustness, and long-term scalability.

A core part of the role is turning data into insight, not just managing systems:

• Revenue forecasting and pipeline analysis.
• Identifying gaps between forecast, delivery, billing, and cash.
• Analysing customer and project profitability.
• Highlighting trends in utilisation, billing performance, and delivery efficiency.

The expectation is not just reporting, but interpretation and challenge:

• Identifying where performance is drifting.
• Surfacing risks and opportunities early.
• Recommending where leadership should change actions or priorities.

The kind of person we're looking for:

Technical

• Experience working with business-critical systems and data, ideally spanning finance, sales, and operations.
• Hands-on exposure to ERP, finance, CRM, project management, or analytics platforms, with the ability to understand how they fit together end-to-end.
• Familiarity with tools such as NetSuite, CCH Tagetik, CRM systems, reporting/BI tools, workflow automation platforms (e.g. Zapier), and relational databases (e.g. Azure-hosted databases) is highly beneficial.
• Strong understanding of data models, integrations, and data flows, with the ability to diagnose issues and design pragmatic improvements.
• Comfortable working with reporting and analytics to produce forecasting, performance, and profitability insights, rather than purely operational reports.
• An interest in, or early experience with, automation and AI-enabled workflows, and how these can be applied to real business problems.
• Able to translate business questions into data structures, analysis, and clear outputs that support decision-making.

Behavioural

• You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and enjoy understanding how a business really works beneath the surface.
• You are a self-starter who thrives in environments where not everything is fully defined and where continuous improvement is expected.
• You are comfortable thinking beyond “how it’s always been done”, and enjoy designing better, cleaner, and more scalable ways of working.
• You are highly organised and able to manage multiple streams of work simultaneously, balancing implementation, improvement, and analysis.
• You are a confident and thoughtful communicator, able to engage stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership.
• You enjoy partnering with others and see yourself as a trusted internal advisor, not just a systems owner.
• You take pride in your work and genuinely care about representing the business well, both internally and externally.
• You are motivated by ownership, responsibility, and the opportunity to grow into a broader, more senior role over time.

A little bit about us

Headquartered in London, VantagePoint is a global finance transformation and technology consultancy that has rapidly grown from a company of five to a company of more than 120 in just five years. We’re an ambitious organisation with an emphasis on cultivating a positive, inclusive, and open environment. Our innovative team of experts work with clients all over the world and we aim to ensure that every individual is given the opportunity to thrive and progress within their career. We’re passionate about improving the finance function and the value it creates for the organisations we partner with.

Our values

• We listen, we hear, we plan, we act
• We take pride in even the small things
• We give everyone a platform for growth
• We take ownership for our wins and losses
• We empower people to strive for more, challenge and take risks
• We are passionate about building strong partnerships
• We think holistically to deliver tangible value
• We have fun at work because it makes us better at what we do.

What’s in it for you?

In addition to being an integral part of a boutique consultancy and an attractive salary, we offer a significant benefits package including:

• Up to 10% matched pension contribution
• Performance bonus, increasing with length of service
• Share scheme
• Private healthcare
• Life cover
• Hybrid working, giving you the chance to decide which days to come into the office
• Free travel to the office
• Gym allowance or wellbeing allowance
• Monthly phone bill
• Paid staff socials
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee referral bonus