Senior Data Architect – Asset Management & AI

Senior Data Architect – Asset Management & AI
Director level | Hong Kong

Argyll Scott is partnering with the asset management business of a global financial services group to hire a Director-level Data Architect in Hong Kong.

The business is bringing data from across its Asian markets into an enterprise data lake. You’ll lead the design of the ingestion layer and decide how that data should be modelled, governed and made available for analytics and AI. The immediate priority is to build trusted datasets that meet business needs today and give AI engineers a reliable foundation for applications such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and AI agents.

What you’ll do

• Define how market data sources feed into the enterprise platform, using Azure and Databricks to establish design patterns that regional engineering teams can reuse.

• Work with asset management stakeholders and data modellers to agree on common definitions for investment data, including where individual markets need a different approach.

• Translate privacy and governance requirements into practical decisions about how teams store, access and use data across markets.

• Guide data and AI engineers through implementation, reviewing designs and helping teams resolve trade-offs between regional standards and local business needs.

What you’ll bring

• Senior-level experience owning data architecture for a complex business, from early design decisions through to implementation.

• Strong technical depth in enterprise data modelling, cloud data platforms and ingestion design. Experience with Azure and Databricks would be particularly valuable.

• An understanding of how to prepare data for AI applications, including the quality, context and access controls those applications need.

• The ability to discuss investment data with business leaders and work through detailed design decisions with engineers. Asset management experience, particularly with investment or valuation data, would be a strong advantage.

Argyll Scott Asia is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.