Senior Manager Architect - Data

Salary: £62,000 - 102,000 per year

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience as a hands-on Senior Manager Architect in a large, complex data-led organisation
• Deep understanding and hands-on experience with modern, cloud-scale data technologies, including distributed data processing architectures (Spark, PySpark, Python, Airflow)
• Experience with ELT data processing underpinning Data LakeHouses and Data Products for scaled use within ML and AI
• Expertise in streaming data, event-driven design, data governance, and the AWS cloud technology stack (e.g. Glue, ServerLess, DynamoDB)
• Track record of leading the architecture vision, design, and implementation of enterprise-scale data applications, with a focus on distributed data processing systems, Data LakeHouse, Data Products, streaming data, and ML and AI platform capabilities
• Working knowledge of ML and Generative AI, including agentic AI-based systems within the architecture and software development lifecycle
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to navigate across tech, architecture, product, and senior stakeholders to achieve alignment
• Proficiency in software development principles, patterns, and practices, including CI/CD
• Passion for growing architectural and data-led thinking, with experience embedding and scaling this in a large enterprise setting
• Ability to shape the adoption of modern data technology and support the evolution of a data-driven culture across a scaled, cross-functional organisation
• Flexibility to adapt your approach to meet the needs of the team, initiative, or product, and ability to build consensus across stakeholders
• Experience in Financial Services or a regulated sector is beneficial

Responsibilities

• Shape the architecture direction and evolution of our data ecosystem across cloud-scale distributed data processing, storage, and curated data consumption
• Influence senior stakeholders, internal customers, and enterprise partners to gain consensus on key technology decisions and architecture direction
• Own and evolve architecture artefacts, including reference architectures, Architecture Decision Records, and technical standards for our domain
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, Cyber, and our user community to solve challenges through data technology and unlock business value
• Advocate for our data ecosystem and data technology, driving awareness and usage aligned to enterprise architecture standards and patterns
• Enable simplification across our architecture, processes, and technologies through standardisation, reuse of appropriate industry SaaS solutions, and adoption of enterprise standards, patterns, capabilities, and platforms
• Nurture and grow architecture excellence and culture within our Data team, leading technical design reviews and driving architecture best practice
• Collaborate with peers in UK architecture and engage with the wider enterprise architecture group

Technologies

• AI
• Airflow
• AWS
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Support
• Python
• PySpark
• Serverless
• Spark

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We are Capital One, a mission-driven financial services company focused on using data and technology to help customers succeed and to change banking for good. We are committed to being a force for good in lending and are building our next-generation, cloud-based data ecosystem to improve data agility, financial inclusion, and real-time intelligent customer experiences. This is a permanent Senior Manager Architect - Data role based in our London or Nottingham office, with a hybrid working pattern of three days in the office and two days remote. Our offices offer amenities including an on-site gym, restaurant, Learning Loft, rooftop running track, and coffee bar. We invest in our people with career development opportunities, including up to £5,000 in external qualification funding, plus a benefits package that includes a competitive pension, performance bonus, 25 days of annual leave with the option to buy more, private medical insurance, and enhanced parental leave. We also value diversity, inclusion, and belonging, with associate-led Business Resource Groups and a fair, accessible recruitment process.

last updated 25 week of 2026