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# Data Integration Architect

- **Company:** Synergize Consulting Ltd
- **Location:** UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Audit Trail, Data Integration, Data Mapping, Distributed Data Store, Metadata, Data Streaming, Management of Software Versions, Openapi, Restful APIs, Pagination, Api Management, Legacy Systems
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.securityclearedjobs.com/job/802084121/data-integration-architect/

## About the Role

* Active SC and NPPV3 clearance - non-negotiable.
 * Strong background as a Data Architect, Data Integration Architect, Information Architect or Information/Data Modelling Architect.
 * Experience with Information Exchange Standards (IES / IES Next), including source-to-target mapping and alignment to common information models.
 * Strong understanding of data semantics, ontology, metadata, provenance, lineage and data quality.
 * Experience designing secure integration solutions across complex or legacy systems, including federated/distributed data architectures.
 * Strong experience with RESTful APIs and OpenAPI, including versioning and contract management.
 * Experience with authentication, authorisation, policy-based access controls, encryption and auditability.
 * Understanding of resilience patterns covering timeouts, source failures, partial results and conflicting data.
 * Ability to produce architecture artefacts, data flows and technical designs and validate solutions through working prototypes.

## Description

The role will focus on designing secure, reusable integration patterns across complex source systems, with particular emphasis on common data models, IES mapping, data semantics, provenance and data quality., * Design secure, reusable data integration architectures across heterogeneous source systems.

 * Define and maintain common/canonical data models and IES mapping approaches.
 * Establish consistent data semantics, metadata, provenance, lineage and data quality standards.
 * Define API contracts covering search, retrieval, pagination, versioning and error handling.
 * Develop integration patterns separating common services from source-specific adapters.
 * Design authentication, authorisation, policy controls, encryption and audit logging.
 * Define monitoring, diagnostic and resilience requirements for the integration layer.
 * Produce architecture diagrams, information models, mapping specifications and technical documentation.
 * Establish repeatable approaches for onboarding additional organisations and data sources.
 * Support Alpha delivery and the roadmap into Beta, working across multi-disciplinary and multi-supplier teams.


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