Defence Data & Solution Architect — Senior/Principal

Actica Consulting Ltd.; Bath; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Discretionary bonus

Stakeholder pension

Job summary

Actica Consulting Ltd. is seeking Senior and Principal level architects to design practical data and information architectures for Defence projects. Roles are hands-on with scope to lead complex work, influence senior stakeholders and mentor others.

Responsibilities include producing architecture artefacts, governing data across boundaries, and delivering across discovery, design, acquisition and delivery phases in a regulated environment. Hybrid working arrangements apply.

Qualifications

• Experience in data, information, solution or enterprise architecture, or a closely related role.
• Experience producing clear, decision-useful architecture artefacts such as principles, policies, standards, guidance, target architectures, solution designs, roadmaps or assessments.
• Experience working with Defence, government or comparable secure and regulated organisations, including engagement with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Understanding of architecture governance, assurance, security and delivery considerations in complex programmes.
• Experience developing practical architectures and clear, decision-useful products or recommendations.
• Ability to work collaboratively and adapt where priorities, requirements or governance arrangements are evolving.
• Experience working securely with sensitive information, including classified, commercially sensitive or personal data, and applying appropriate handling requirements.

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with military and civil service clients to understand their needs and translate them into practical architecture outcomes.
• Develop current and target architectures across relevant data, information, solution and technology domains.
• Produce clear architecture products, which may include principles, policies, standards, guidance, patterns, designs, roadmaps and option assessments.
• Research unfamiliar or emerging topics and apply recognised good practice to the Defence context.
• Help clients govern, secure, share, integrate and exploit data and information across organisational and system boundaries.
• Lead architecture activities and provide advice and assurance through relevant stages of discovery, design, acquisition and delivery.
• Facilitate workshops, support governance and build agreement across operational, technical and senior stakeholder groups.
• Lead larger, more complex or less well-defined assignments while remaining actively involved in delivery.
• Influence senior stakeholders, resolve competing priorities and guide architecture through governance and approval.
• Guide and assure other practitioners, and contribute to our architecture capability through mentoring, knowledge sharing, recruitment or business development.

Skills

Data architecture

Enterprise architecture

Architecture governance

TOGAF

MODAF

ArchiMate

BizzDesign

Security considerations

Tools

TOGAF (reference)

Job description

Actica Consulting Ltd. is seeking Senior and Principal level architects to design practical data and information architectures for Defence projects. Roles are hands-on with scope to lead complex work, influence senior stakeholders and mentor others.

Responsibilities include producing architecture artefacts, governing data across boundaries, and delivering across discovery, design, acquisition and delivery phases in a regulated environment. Hybrid working arrangements apply.