Midland Credit Management, an Encore Capital Group Company
Enterprise Data Architect
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Cabot Credit Management - Enterprise Data Architect
Cabot Credit Management is seeking an experienced Enterprise Data Architect to lead the development and evolution of our enterprise-wide data architecture, ensuring that data remains a strategic asset that enables business growth, innovation, and informed decision-making.
This role will provide architectural leadership across data platforms, analytics, AI, governance, and information management, shaping how data is structured, governed, secured, and utilized across the organization. Working closely with Data, IT, Cloud, Information Security, and Business Architecture teams, you will define the long-term data vision, drive key enterprise initiatives, and provide oversight of the data estate to ensure it is aligned with business objectives, operationally effective, and fit for the future.
What You Can Expect
- Permanent
- Hybrid role – flexibility to travel
- Competitive salary and a fantastic bonus scheme
- Discounts and cashback on hundreds of high-street shops
- Private health insurance
- Plus much more
Key Responsibilities
- Define and evolve Cabot's enterprise data architecture, establishing the standards, principles, and roadmap that support business strategy, regulatory requirements, and future growth.
- Provide architectural leadership across data platforms, cloud technologies, analytics, AI, and governance, ensuring solutions are secure, scalable, and cost-effective.
- Act as the design authority for significant data initiatives, offering guidance, governance, and assurance across programs, projects, and platform changes.
- Lead and coordinate Cabot's Data Forum, providing enterprise-wide oversight of data architecture priorities, risks, dependencies, and strategic decisions.
- Collaborate with Data, IT, Cloud, Information Security, and Business Architecture teams to ensure alignment between business objectives, technology capabilities, and data strategy.
- Drive the modernisation of the data estate, including cloud adoption, platform optimization, data migration initiatives, and the rationalisation of legacy environments.
- Establish and promote best practice in data governance, metadata management, data quality, privacy, retention, and stewardship.
- Define architecture patterns that enable advanced analytics, AI, and data-driven decision-making, ensuring the organization can maximize the value of its data assets.
- Embed cost transparency and optimisation principles into architecture decisions, balancing innovation, resilience, performance, and value for money.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and provide strategic recommendations that support Cabot's long-term data and digital transformation ambitions.
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Essential Requirements
- Proven experience in Enterprise Data Architecture, Data Platform Architecture, or a similar senior technology leadership role.
- Strong expertise in modern data platforms and cloud technologies, particularly Microsoft Azure and Databricks.
- Experience designing and governing enterprise-scale data, analytics, and information architectures across complex environments.
- Sound understanding of data governance, security, privacy, data quality, and regulatory requirements.
- Experience leading data modernisation, migration, and transformation initiatives, including cloud adoption and legacy platform rationalisation.
- Strong knowledge of data integration, modelling, metadata management, and enterprise data architecture best practices.
- Ability to develop strategic roadmaps and translate long-term architectural vision into practical delivery plans.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience collaborating across Architecture, Data, IT, Cloud, and Information Security functions to deliver business outcomes.
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Desirable Requirements
- Experience within financial services or another highly regulated industry.
- Knowledge of AI, machine learning, and GenAI architectures and their data requirements.
- Understanding of FinOps principles, cloud cost optimisation, and technology investment decision-making.
- Experience supporting enterprise architecture governance, data forums, or data governance initiatives.
- Familiarity with data products, data mesh, or federated data operating models.
- Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, or DAMA-DMBOK.
What Happens Next
If this sounds like you and you’d like to join our rapidly expanding company that offers excellent career progression, then apply now!
Working for Cabot
You’ll be working for an award-winning, Investors in People Gold accredited organization. We’re passionate about the ethical treatment of our customers and employees. Our mission is to create pathways to economic freedom. Our vision is to make credit accessible by partnering with our consumers to restore their financial health.
Diversity and inclusion are very important to us at Cabot, and we value a multitude of diverse talent within our business. We want everyone to be themselves at work and encourage a culture that includes everyone. Our policies ensure that every candidate and employee are treated fairly and with equal opportunities.
At Cabot, we are highly regulated by our clients, as such, any successful candidates will have to undergo a basic credit check and criminal background check. Please note that we are unable to proceed to interview stage if a CCJ, IVA, or Bankruptcy appears on a credit file, or if you do not have full right to work in the UK – we are unfortunately unable to offer sponsorship.
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