Salary: £40,500 - 73,000 per year Requirements: Proven experience as a Data Architect within complex, secure or regulated environments. Strong understanding of enterprise data architecture principles and frameworks. Experience designing cloud-native or hybrid data platforms. Expertise in data modelling (conceptual, logical, physical). Strong knowledge of data warehousing and data lake architectures. Experience working within defence, national security or similarly regulated environments. Strong understanding of data governance, access control and information assurance. Experience implementing secure data handling and audit controls. Active DV clearance is essential. Responsibilities: Define and own the end-to-end data architecture across secure platforms. Design scalable data pipelines (batch and streaming) to support operational and analytical workloads. Develop logical and physical data models aligned to enterprise standards. Oversee ETL/ELT processes, data integration and transformation patterns. Design and optimise data storage solutions (data lakes, warehouses, distributed systems). Ensure solutions are secure-by-design and compliant with MOD security frameworks. Establish data governance, metadata management and lineage standards. Collaborate with engineering, DevOps and analytics teams to support deployment pipelines. Contribute to architectural roadmaps aligned to long-term capability evolution. Ensure high availability, resilience and performance optimisation of data systems. Technologies: Architect Cloud DevOps ETL Support Security More: We are a defence delivery partner, actively supporting a secure data transformation programme within an RAF operational environment. Our focus is on designing, sustaining, and evolving secure data platforms that support intelligence, surveillance, and operational decision-making capabilities. This role is based in Wyton, Huntingdon, requiring on-site presence for 45 days, with a 9-day condensed working week that includes every other Friday off. We offer a contract of 12 months with an extension likely up to 3 years or a permanent position, contributing to a high-assurance defence setting. last updated 12 week of 2026