Total 3 job vacancies by NatWest Group

Join us as an Enterprise Architect Lead, Data Science & AI

• Join a team that is shaping the future of the bank’s data science and AI architecture and governance and help us unlock the full potential of our data
• You'll be defining the intentional architecture for your assigned scope in order to ensure that the current architecture being delivered by engineers best supports the enterprise and its long term strategy
• With valuable exposure, you’ll be building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across the bank to ensure commercially focused decisions and to create long term value for the bank

What you'll do

We’re embarking on a new and exciting phase of the bank’s transformation agenda, data science and AI architecture play a crucial role in achieving our mission to simplify, reduce risk and enable customer engagement and personalisation. Supporting the development of architectures and roadmaps of innovative data solutions, leveraging data science and AI, is critical to driving simplification, improving data efficiency, and ensuring data risk stays within tolerance.

In this key role, you’ll be defining and communicating the current, resultant and target state architecture for your enterprise solutions using data science & AI. You’ll also be making sure that the architecture links to, and is informed by, our overall strategy and architecture, and produces the architecture outcomes.

We’ll look to you to influence the development of business strategies at an organisational level, identifying transformational opportunities for our businesses and technology areas associated with both new and existing technologies. You’ll manage and mentor a team of specialist and senior data architects dedicated to supporting architectures for solutions using data science and AI fostering a collaborative, high performance culture that encourages innovation.

As well as this, you’ll:

• Translate architecture roadmaps into packages of work that allow frequent incremental delivery of value to be included in product backlog
• Define, create and maintain architecture models, roadmaps, standards and outcomes, using architecture strategies to ensure alignment to adjacent and higher level model
• Work closely with business owners, portfolio managers, product managers and release managers to define the target intentional architecture
• Lead complex and technically challenging architectural transformations, coordinating design and platform teams across domains
• Stay abreast of the commercial and emerging data technology offerings that may influence current and target Data Science and AI architectures and their governance
• Seek out and utilise continuous feedback, fostering adaptive design and engineering practices to drive the collaboration of programmes and teams around a common technical vision

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with a background in defining business and application architectures and roadmaps for data science and AI based solutions. You’ll bring expert knowledge of enterprise data architecture, solution data architecture, architecture for data science and AI with knowledge of industry architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or ArchiMate.

In addition, you’ll be a thought leader of architecture for data science and AI solutions and enterprise design in the bank influencing business and technology teams. You’ll have excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to colleagues up to senior leadership level, along with a good understanding of Agile methodologies with experience of working in an Agile team.

You’ll also have:

• Experience of developing, syndicating and communicating architectures, designs and proposals for action
• Experience of working with business solution vendors, technology vendors and products within the market
• Experience as an enterprise architect with focus on architecture advisory along with experience in AI or ML and Data Science solutions and patterns
• Experience with developing, data exploration, visualisation and statistical analysis technologies
• Experience with developing, data exploration, visualisation and statistical analysis technologies
• An understanding of neural networking, deep learning and LLM architectures
• Knowledge of Data Science lifecycle, MLOps, model management and automation
• Knowledge of data, architecture frameworks such as DAMA and DCAM as well as data related regulations such as GDPR, CCPA,PCI DSS and BCBS 239
• Architecture knowledge of Tableau, AWS data stack, SageMaker, Python, EMR or Spark, Kafka and Snowflake

Join us as a Behavioural Risk & Applied Empirical Science Audit Manager

• In this key role, you’ll be focussing on driving the adoption of empirical scientific research methods within the NatWest Behavioural Risk team and wider Internal Audit sector
• You’ll be responsible for leading and managing data science and behavioural science colleagues, and you’ll shape and lead high profile evidence-based and data-led pieces of insight, providing assurance to senior executives on our assets and sustainability
• This role offers a great platform to build your leadership profile as you shape a high performing and vibrant team culture

What you’ll do

As a Behavioural Risk & Applied Empirical Science Audit Manager, you’ll collaborate with audit experts to understand critical business assurance and sustainability questions. You’ll work closely with a diverse group of talented and accomplished behavioural and data scientists, identifying opportunities for innovation, gathering resources and owning implementation.

You’ll also:

• Guide more junior colleagues in designing feasible research approaches, as well as in executing and interpreting insights
• Develop and manage effective stakeholder relationships and act as first point of contact when leading reviews
• Stay on top of latest applied empirical science methods and applications, as well as analysis and workflow management technology
• Stay at the forefront of empirical social science behavioural insight, sharing knowledge where possible

The skills you’ll need:

We’re looking for someone with extensive relevant technical and research leadership experience. You’ll hold an academic degree in a social science discipline, with a strong quantitative analysis element, or you’ll have a proven equivalent track record.

You’ll also have experience in empirical social science design and execution, covering statistics, causal inference and data science. Knowledge of large-scale business data handling such as databases and SQL would be beneficial, as would an understanding of retail banking, financial markets and code development and quality assurance practices such as Git, GitLab and GitHub.

In addition to this, we’re looking for:

• Enterprise level coding experience including object-oriented programming, ideally using Python
• Experience in drawing conclusions from different primary and secondary data sources
• Clear, concise and compelling communication skills to inspire others, maintain momentum and ensure work completion
• Experience role-modelling, supporting and supervising through coaching, feedback and development
• The entrepreneurial skills, resilience, drive and enthusiasm to develop your skill set and innovate

Join us as our Head of Group Public Policy Research & Political Risk

• This is a varied and engaging role in which you’ll be responsible for supporting your function and wider business with policy development, political horizon scanning, political engagement and the identification of political risk
• You’ll be working with senior stakeholders and leading a highly skilled team, continually driving the identification and mitigation of potential risks
• Your work will have an enormous impact as you’ll develop and implement our centre of expertise regarding political policy, research and risk

What you'll do

As our Head of Group Public Policy Research & Political Risk, you’ll be responsible for driving the development of policy interventions. In doing so, you’ll develop our strategic approach for the use of lobbying governments and politicians across the UK. You’ll be expected to stay abreast of the key political policy areas of the day in order to develop our policy positions across a number of areas.

In addition to this, you’ll be responsible for:

• The horizon scanning of key issues covering policy and political risk
• Identifying any political risks we might face before developing mitigating actions
• Developing research materials to support regional board communications, influencer engagement and the Levelling Up agenda
• Developing simple, accessible materials on our strategy and purpose for external use

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with the ability to deliver clear, well researched materials for external parties covering our strategy. As such, you’ll be able to deal with highly sensitive and confidential materials.

Along with an understanding of our wider strategy, you’ll have the ability to research complex political policies and how they affect us and our customers.

You will also need a contacts book, the desire to build that contacts book and the willingness to engage with politicians and officials on an ongoing and out of hours basis.

We’re also looking for:

• The ability to build strong and widespread relationships across the bank
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate innovative solutions to potential risks
• Effective leadership skills to manage a highly skilled, experienced and well connected team
• The ability to lobby government on areas of political policy and risk that affect us