Business Data Architect

About the Position

SIX drives the transformation of financial markets. What sets us apart drives us ahead: between local roots and global relevance, we are a unique blend of tradition and future, of foundation and growth. We value bright minds and inspire them to grow with their ideas. Come and shape the future of finance with us.

We are looking for a Business Data Architect to join our Financial Information division within the SIX Group. This role sits within the Business-led Product Development division and focuses on our business data model, ensuring our financial data products meet customer, commercial, and regulatory needs. The role partners closely with Product Teams, SMEs, and Operations as key stakeholders.

Location: Warsaw | Remote: up to 40% | Reference: 8194

Responsibilities

• Work with stakeholders across the business to review, update, and design the conceptual data models for Financial Information, defining class definitions, standards, and association semantics.
• Develop and maintain design, naming conventions, dictionaries, lineage, and metadata standards, collaborating with data quality teams to ensure models support validation rules.
• Partner with stakeholders across the business to translate complex data concepts and requirements into robust UML data models that form the basis of BFI products.
• Support the evolution of data distribution models, including API-first delivery and AI data access enablement.
• Work closely with our Quality Management stakeholders to drive adoption of the data model and data completeness.

Requirements

• Financial Data Knowledge: Strong understanding of the financial data domain. For example, securities reference data, corporate actions, tax/regulatory classifications, or market data.
• Technical Skills: Programming language experience in SQL, Python, Vbscript, VBA. Demonstrated proficiency in UML business data modeling tools such as Sparx EA (ideally), Erwin, PowerDesigner, or similar, with experience in forward engineering and database or data warehouse design highly desirable.
• Data Governance: Strong understanding of data governance best practices such as the role of data owners, stewards, and custodians, and of conceptual and physical data models. Experience with data catalogs is desirable, but not mandatory.
• Collaborative Approach: A collaborative and detail-oriented approach to analytical and modeling tasks. The team collaborates with many stakeholders, and the outputs of these discussions must be clearly held in the Business Data Model.
• Language Skills: Fluent in English (both verbal & writing), German is a plus.

What We Offer

• Flexible Work Models: We trust our employees and offer a work environment that is well-balanced, productive, and fosters success.
• Personal Development: You will benefit from a culture of continuous learning and feedback. Your personal growth is supported through an extensive learning offering.
• Agile Working Methods: Whether through scrum or design thinking, we solve exciting tasks together in teams.

About the Company

SIX drives the transformation of financial markets. What sets us apart drives us ahead: between local roots and global relevance, we are a unique blend of tradition and future, of foundation and growth. We value bright minds and inspire them to grow with their ideas. Come and shape the future of finance with us.

If you have any questions, check out our FAQ page or call Anthony Mills at +44 207 550 5407.

For this vacancy, we only accept direct applications.

Diversity is important to us. Therefore, we are looking to receive applications regardless of any personal background.

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