Full-Time
Lead Data Architect
Posted on 12/13/2025
NewDay
1,001-5,000 employees
UK consumer credit and store cards
No salary listed
London, UK
Hybrid
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- Experience leading data architecture teams and building enterprise-wide data platforms.
- Ability to create and deliver a clear, long-term data architecture plan.
- Strong knowledge of cloud-based data systems (AWS, Azure, or Snowflake).
- Solid understanding of data governance, compliance, and data quality.
- Skilled in designing and reviewing complex data architecture solutions.
- Experience working in financial services, especially credit cards or payments.
- Comfortable working with senior leaders, business users, and tech teams.
- Strong background in data solutions like data warehouses and data modelling.
- Familiar with Agile and Waterfall project methods.
- Strategic Leadership: Create and drive the data architecture strategy across Nexus, making sure it aligns with business needs and new technology trends.
- Team Leadership & Mentorship: Lead and support a team of Data Solution Architects, helping them deliver high-quality and scalable data solutions.
- Collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders, enterprise architects, and department heads to ensure the architecture supports business goals.
- Technical Guidance & Oversight: Provide hands-on technical leadership to maintain high standards in how data solutions are designed and built.
- Data Governance & Compliance: Make sure data systems meet security, quality, and compliance standards and follow best practices.
- Architectural Oversight: Review and approve all architectural designs to ensure they are secure, scalable, and in line with company strategy.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work with business and IT teams to ensure the data architecture meets current and future reporting and analytics needs.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate regularly with teams and leaders across the business to share updates, plans, and progress.
- Resource Allocation & Project Management: Oversee project timelines and team resources to deliver high-value data architecture work on time and within scope.
- Experience in credit cards or other regulated industries.
- Hands-on work with AWS, Azure, or Snowflake.
- Knowledge of real-time data tools like Confluent Kafka.
- Experience working with data from many different sources.
- Knowledge of Data Vault, Data Lake, and Data Mart design in the cloud.
- Strong SQL skills and experience tuning complex queries.
- Experience working in data science environments (e.g., AWS S3, Jupyter Notebooks).
- Familiar with ETL tools like AWS Glue or Informatica.
NewDay provides credit cards and store cards to consumers in the United Kingdom, specifically focusing on those who may be overlooked by traditional banks. The company issues its own credit-building cards like Aqua and Marbles, while also managing co-branded cards for major retailers such as John Lewis and Argos. Unlike many high-street lenders, NewDay specializes in the "near-prime" market, offering digital-only products like Bip to help users manage and improve their credit scores. The company's goal is to provide responsible access to credit for underserved individuals while expanding its reach through retail partnerships and digital technology.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2000
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Acquired Argos portfolio for £720M, adding 2M customers.
- Reported 30% profit rise to £107M in H1 2025.
- KKR acquired portfolio, enhancing scale and funding.
What critics are saying
- FCA rules reject 20-30% more applicants, shrinking £4.4B receivables.
- Lloyds digital card captures 15% near-prime share in 12-18 months.
- John Lewis internalizes £800M portfolio in 12-18 months.
What makes NewDay unique
- NewDay targets near-prime consumers with Aqua, Marbles, Fluid cards.
- Launched UK's first digital-only Bip credit card.
- Integrates open banking via D•One for affordability assessments.
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Sainsbury's has also announced the creation of a partnership with NewDay to create a new Argos-branded digital credit proposition.
The transaction will also see Sainsbury's partner with NewDay to create a new Argos-branded digital credit proposition, which will replace the brand's current credit propositions with a "wider choice of modern, flexible and more convenient ways for customers to manage the cost of purchases".
D•One, part of the ClearScore Group, today announces that NewDay, a leading provider of unsecured consumer credit in the UK, has gone live with D•One’s open banking connectivity and transaction categorisation products. This move to provide deeper affordability assessments supports responsible access to credit, as well as financial inclusion. NewDay customers can share their transaction data via open banking for a real-world assessment of affordability, offering consumers who have limited credit histories access to credit options they might otherwise have missed out on.NewDay serves millions of customers, powered by its leading platform and digital servicing capability. With the integration of open banking technology, it can now further enhance its lending decision-making, leading to greater access to credit for a wider range of people. Using D•One’s open banking connection and categorisation, NewDay has developed its credit models to help more people move forward with credit.Rob Holt, Chief Executive Officer of Credit at NewDay, said: “We are always looking for ways to improve our ability to serve working Britain with responsible access to affordable credit, and we see open banking as an important addition to our underwriting assessments to more comprehensively understand our customers’ circumstances. We were impressed with D•One’s open banking solution, along with the supporting functionality and flexibility it provided and plan to integrate these capabilities into our lending strategies.”D•One provides the most comprehensive suite of open banking connectivity in the UK and has an advanced deterministic categorisation model developed over 12 years and with over 1 billion transactions
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