SC Cleared Data Architect: Data Strategy & Cloud

Accenture UK & Ireland; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days vacation per year

Private medical insurance

Extra days leave for charitable work

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland is seeking a Data Architect - SC Cleared to lead architectural work for public and private sector clients in Manchester, London or Bristol. The role requires strong data modelling, microservices knowledge and hands-on experience with Java, Scala, Python and AWS.

You will drive data strategy, data migration, and integration, while mentoring team members and ensuring secure, scalable solutions that align with national infrastructure standards.

Qualifications

• Strong architecture and software engineering background.
• Led teams of engineers or other architects.
• Contribute to our internal data strategy and thought leadership.
• Experience with data strategy, migration, and integration.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture for high-profile government and private projects.
• Provide architectural and technical leadership across teams.
• Understand current live applications and client systems.
• Document scope, context and constraints clearly.
• Set standards and guidelines for build and deployment.
• Ensure architectural principles are applied to final systems.
• Define a strategic enterprise data model across products.
• Propose solutions for storing data in distributed systems.
• Create models for micro-services and big-data storage.
• Govern and support delivery; line manage and mentor others.

Skills

Data architecture

Java

Scala

Python

Big Data

AWS

REST Services

Microservices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

REST APIs

Big Data frameworks

Job description

Accenture UK & Ireland is seeking a Data Architect - SC Cleared to lead architectural work for public and private sector clients in Manchester, London or Bristol. The role requires strong data modelling, microservices knowledge and hands-on experience with Java, Scala, Python and AWS.

You will drive data strategy, data migration, and integration, while mentoring team members and ensuring secure, scalable solutions that align with national infrastructure standards.