Data Architect

Job Description

We are recruiting for a Data Architect to join our IT team. This role will be responsible for defining and governing the organisation-wide data architecture, data standards, and data governance framework. The role sets the target-state architecture and roadmap for the enterprise data platform, and provides architectural guidance and assurance to the BI and Data Engineering teams. The role is focused on strategy, design authority, governance, and stakeholder alignment rather than hands-on development or platform deployment

Responsibilities include:

Strategy & Framework Development

• Define and maintain a comprehensive data governance framework.
• Define data governance policies, standards, and procedures.

Governance Leadership

• Establish and lead a Data Governance Council.

• Collaborate with data owners, stewards, custodians, and the BI and Data Engineering teams across departments.

Data Quality & Compliance

• Define, oversee, and monitor data quality standards and metrics.
• Ensure compliance with data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).

Technology & Tools

• Evaluate and recommend data governance and platform technologies, and define the standards and patterns for their use.
• Set the architectural direction for data platform capabilities including storage, integration, modelling, orchestration, and analytics.
• Provide design authority and architectural assurance to the BI and Data Engineering teams who implement and support data tooling and services.

Training & Culture

• Promote a data-driven culture through training, awareness, and adoption of agreed data standards and governance practices.
• Help develop role-specific training and knowledge, e.g., responsibilities and procedures for data owners and custodians across departments.

About Us

Transact is a leading UK investment wrap platform for financial advisers and their clients. Our culture is collaborative, inclusive and open-minded. We work hard to continually challenge the way we do things to maintain our market leading status.

As a customer-centric and client focused business, we put our clients, like Mrs Miggins, at the heart of everything we do.

Our platform enables clients and their advisers to manage their financial portfolio in one single online place, and is supported by unrivalled personal service. Our goal is to make all aspects of portfolio management as easy and efficient as possible for everyone involved, through the features we develop, our integrations with other systems, and the support we provide.

Our purpose : We enable the Miggins family and their adviser to hold their investments on a single platform across wrappers. We provide custody, tax wrapping, trading and reporting.

Our strategy : We make financial planning easier for advisers by delivering great service. Our platform helps advisers grow revenues and reduce risk and cost in their business. We will always have control of our technology, wrappers and service.

Our values : We do the right thing for customers, advisers, staff, shareholders, suppliers and the wider community.

Transact's parent company, IntegraFin Holdings plc, is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 index. Established in 2000, today we have over £77.2 billion of funds under direction on behalf of over 249,000 investor clients (as at December 2025).

Equal Opportunities

We provide a diverse and inclusive workplace and ensure that all of our staff respect and understand individual differences. We are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.