The Client:

Global Technology and Engineering Consultancy with over 1000 Employees and some genuinely fascinating projects of work across Defence, Energy, Space, Rail and Government (amongst others). Known as a trusted and caring employer, they always deliver success on their projects. This role is a brand-new role in a brand-new division working within Defence.

Recent Projects include:

• Designing a digital twin of a particle accelerator for implementation with a focus on secure design. (Azure)
• Build data analysis and infrastructure for ingestion and analytics of ship tracking data in AWS using serverless technologies (S3, Lambda, C#, Terraform).
• Helping an energy customer to maintain critical infrastructure by developing software that models and monitors state and damage to complex systems using ASP.NET, Entity Framework, Postgres and C#.
• Enabling the energy industry to demonstrate data quality and providence via a blockchain.

The Role

As a Senior Data Architect, you will play a key role in developing enterprise-wide innovative solutions that support the UK Defence Intelligence community in maintaining pace with a dynamic and ever-changing world. Your focus will be to expand our UK Defence Intelligence portfolio and help UK Defence fully leverage the power of their data, ensuring they maximise its potential.

Responsibilities:

• Gather the Intelligence communities’ data requirements and translate into technical specifications.
• Develop and maintain data models, metadata systems and data architecture frameworks that comply with pre-determined UK standards and approved ontologies.
• Define Defence Intelligence data governance, data quality and data security protocol ensuring compliance with broader UK Defence and international partner policy.
• Develop guidelines for data integration data storage, and data cleansing.
• Design scalable and secure data warehouses, data marts, and data lakes.
• Lead the development and implementation of data-driven solutions that satisfy prioritised multi-disciplined Intelligence requirements.
• Consider the impact of a single Intelligence Environment to the broader community, guaranteeing the core architecture can interface with all information data feeds.

YOU:

• Proven experience as an effective Data Architect, with a focus on data modelling, data architecture, and data governance.
• Strong demonstrable knowledge of database technology, data warehousing, data marts, and data lakes.
• Understand a range of tools for storing and working with metadata.
• Evidence of effective project management skills with experience of leading data projects.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate complex data-related concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Understanding Government and Defence-recognised data modelling patterns and standards.
• Understand the Defence Intelligence context and be familiar with the Defence 2030 vision.

Candidates for this role will be required to undergo pre-employment screening and must be able to satisfy DV clearance criteria for UK National Security Vetting.

Keywords: Data Architect, Defence, Defence Intelligence, Data Modelling, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Database Technology, Data Warehousing, Data Marts, Data Lakes.