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Data Strategy Lead

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ID: #5971
Posted: 2026-03-17
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Job Description The Data Strategy Lead is accountable for defining and driving the strategic direction of a specific data domain or capability within banking domain. Acting as the strategic owner, this role ensures alignment with enterprise architecture, governance frameworks, and business priorities. It serves as a critical bridge between strategy and execution, empowering Agile delivery teams to build scalable, compliant, and high-quality data products that support business operations, regulatory obligations, and analytical needs. This role operates horizontally across delivery verticals, enabling consistent end-to-end data flow design patterns, reducing rework, and embedding modernization opportunities such as cloud migration, AI adoption, and data-as-a-product principles. This position is a rolling 6 month contract on a Hybrid working Schedule with 3 days required in a Bromley based Office. Overview We are looking for a Data Strategy lead who has a big picture understanding when it comes to Enterprise level data but also has a background knowledge and can still be hands on when it comes to Data Modelling and Data Management. The chosen candidate will also have data architectural knowledge being able to understand how data is processed and stored Required Skills; • Strategic Leadership: Proven ability to define and execute domain-level strategies in complex organizations. • Global Payments Expertise: Deep understanding of payment rails, clearing/settlement, cross-border flows, correspondent banking, treasury/payments operations; ISO 20022, SWIFT MT/MX. • Regulatory & Reporting Knowledge: PSD2/Open Banking, AML/Sanctions (GFCC), NFRR/FRR reporting controls, audit readiness; data retention/lineage requirements. • Data Management Expertise: Strong understanding of data management principles, including canonical data modelling, shared data contracts, and API-driven integration patterns. Familiarity with modern data architectures such as data lakehouse, cloud-native ecosystems, and interoperability standards. Ability to define and enforce data standardization practices across domains, ensuring consistency and scalability in support of business and regulatory needs. • Governance Leadership: Design-pattern stewardship, control frameworks, standards enforcement, policy-to-implementation traceability. • Communication & Stakeholder Management: Executive-level storytelling, cross-functional influence, multi-location collaboration across teams. • Experience: Typically 10+ years in data/architecture/product roles, including 5+ years in Payments/Treasury or banking; proven delivery in regulated environments and currently still hands on with Data Modelling and Management. • We are unable to provide sponsorship for this position.

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