Data Architect - SC or DV Cleared

You will be responsible for shaping the programme’s data architecture and ensuring that data solutions align with wider organisational, security and technology strategies.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Defining current-state, transitional and target-state data architectures.
• Developing data models, standards, principles and architectural roadmaps.
• Designing secure, scalable and interoperable data solutions.
• Establishing effective approaches to data governance, ownership, quality, lineage and metadata.
• Supporting the integration of data across legacy, cloud and modern digital platforms.
• Ensuring data architecture meets relevant security, privacy and regulatory requirements.
• Working with engineering and delivery teams to translate architectural strategy into practical solutions.
• Reviewing proposed designs and providing architectural assurance.
• Identifying opportunities to improve data accessibility, reusability and consistency.
• Communicating complex architectural decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders., This is an opportunity to influence data architecture across a significant and technically complex government programme. You will work within a highly capable environment where secure, well-governed and accessible data is central to improving services and operational outcomes.

• Significant experience working as a Data Architect, Senior Data Architect or Enterprise Data Architect.
• Strong knowledge of conceptual, logical and physical data modelling.
• Experience designing data architectures across complex organisations or programmes.
• A strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, data lineage and data quality.
• Experience integrating data across multiple systems, platforms and organisational boundaries.
• Knowledge of modern cloud-based data platforms and architectural patterns.
• Experience developing data strategies, architecture principles and technical roadmaps.
• The ability to balance long-term architectural direction with immediate delivery priorities.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, including experience influencing senior technical and business leaders.
• Experience working within structured architecture governance and assurance processes.

Desirable Experience

• Experience within UK Government, policing, law enforcement, defence, national security or another highly regulated environment.
• Knowledge of AWS, Azure, Microsoft Fabric or comparable cloud data platforms.
• Experience with data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouse architectures and real-time or event-driven data solutions.
• Understanding of APIs, microservices and modern systems-integration approaches.
• Familiarity with data cataloguing, master data management and information-management frameworks.
• Experience supporting analytics, artificial intelligence or machine-learning programmes.
• Knowledge of relevant Government Digital Service, NCSC or public-sector technology standards.

Security Clearance

Applicants must already hold active and transferable Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV) clearance.