Nottingham Trent House (95002), United Kingdom, Nottingham, NottinghamshireSenior Manager Architect - Data

About the role

It’s an exciting time at Capital One UK!

We’re on a mission to create our next generation, cloud-based data ecosystem, to unlock the power of data, increase financial inclusion and deliver transformative, real-time, intelligent experiences to our customers.

Capital One’s Data team is responsible for the data ecosystem, which covers the holistic data lifecycle, from the capture of high-quality customer data in real-time, the structuring, storage and processing of that data for insight, to the usage of the data in event driven applications and ML driven models that help our customers.

As a Senior Manager Data Architect you will be an experienced technical leader bringing business, industry and deep technical understanding to shape the architecture direction and evolution of the data ecosystem, across your aligned data technology domain. You will invest in architecture excellence across the Data team, and foster innovation to unlock value across our user community of Engineers, Data Scientists, Data Analysts & Data Governance associates.

Come and help us shape the future of financial services in the Cloud.

What you’ll do

• Shape the architecture direction and evolution of the data ecosystem, for your data technology domain
• Influence Senior stakeholders, Internal customers & Enterprise partners, gaining consensus on key technology decisions and architecture direction of the data ecosystem
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, Cyber and our user community of Engineers, Data Scientists, Data Analysts and Data Governance associates, solving their challenges through Data Technology, to unlock business value
• Be a passionate evangelist for the data ecosystem and data technology, driving wide awareness and usage aligned to Enterprise / UK architecture standards and patterns
• Enable simplification across our architecture, processes and technologies, by encouraging and fostering the reuse of appropriate industry SaaS solutions and/or Enterprise standards, patterns, capabilities and platforms
• Nurture and grow architecture excellence & culture within the Data team, leading technical design reviews & driving architecture best practice both within the team and the broader Architecture organisation
• Collaborate with your peers in UK architecture and engage in the wider Enterprise architecture group
• At times, take on delegated responsibilities from the Divisional Chief Architect (DCA) as their proxy to provide additional coverage for more complex activities and design reviews

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrable experience as a Senior Manager Data Architect, in a large, complex data led organisation
• Deep understanding of modern Data Technologies, with expertise in Streaming Data, Event Driven Architectures, Data LakeHouse (inc. Data Products, ELT, Distributed Data Processing, Snowflake), Data Governance, Python, Spark, Java, AWS Cloud technologies (e.g. Serverless, DynamoDB etc…) and knowledge of ML and GenAI
• A track record in leading the architecture vision, design & implementation of Enterprise scale data applications, across a given domain (e.g. Streaming data, Data LakeHouse, Data Products, ML platform capabilities)
• Excellent communication skills, effortlessly navigating across tech, architecture, product and senior stakeholders to achieve alignment
• Proficiency in software development principles, patterns, and practices
• Inspiration as an evangelist for architectural thinking and data technology, with experience in nurturing and growing architecture & data thinking within Architecture, Engineering & Data led functions
• An ability to shape the adoption of modern Data Technology and support the evolution of a Data driven culture, across a scaled, cross functional organisation
• Experience in a Financial Services organisation beneficial

Where and how you'll work

This is a permanent position based in either our Nottingham office.

We have a hybrid working model which gives you flexibility to work from our offices and from home.

We’re big on collaboration and connection, so you’ll be based in our Nottingham or London office 3 days a week on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.

What’s in it for you

• Bring us all this - and you’ll be well rewarded with a role contributing to the roadmap of an organisation committed to transformation
• We offer high performers strong and diverse career progression, investing heavily in developing great people through our Capital One University training programmes (and appropriate external providers)
• Immediate access to our core benefits including pension scheme, bonus, generous holiday entitlement and private medical insurance – with flexible benefits available including season-ticket loans, cycle to work scheme and enhanced parental leave
• Open-plan workspaces and accessible facilities designed to inspire and support you. Our Nottingham head-office has a fully-serviced gym, subsidised restaurant, mindfulness and music rooms. In London, you can heighten your mood with a run on our rooftop running track or an espresso at the Workshop Coffee café

What you should know about how we recruit

We pride ourselves on hiring the best people, not the same people. Building diverse and inclusive teams is the right thing to do and the smart thing to do. We want to work with top talent: whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you come from. We know it’s about what you do, not just what you say. That’s why we make our recruitment process fair and accessible. And we offer benefits that attract people at all ages and stages.

We also partner with organisations including the Women in Finance and Race At Work Charters, Stonewall and upReach to find people from every walk of life and help them thrive with us. We have a whole host of internal networks and support groups you could be involved in, to name a few:

• REACH – Race Equality and Culture Heritage group focuses on representation, retention and engagement for associates from minority ethnic groups and allies
• OutFront – to provide LGBTQ+ support for all associates
• Mind Your Mind – signposting support and promoting positive mental wellbeing for all
• Women in Tech – promoting an inclusive environment in tech
• EmpowHER - network of female associates and allies focusing on developing future leaders, particularly for female talent in our industry
• Enabled - focused on supporting associates with disabilities and neurodiversity

Capital One is committed to diversity in the workplace.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact ukrecruitment@capitalone.com All information will be kept confidential and will only be used for the purpose of applying a reasonable adjustment.