3610 IT & Software Developer jobs in the UK
Requirements
Must:
- 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.
Description
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.
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The company with most openings is Experis as they are hiring for 104 different Software Architect jobs in the UK. They are probably quite committed to find good Software Architects.