SC Cleared Data Architect: Enterprise Data Strategy Lead

Accenture PLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days vacation

Private medical insurance

Charitable leave

Job summary

Accenture plc in the UK is seeking a Data Architect - SC Cleared to define enterprise data architecture for government and private sector projects across Manchester, London, and Bristol. The role requires security clearance and hands-on data engineering with modern data platforms.

You will lead data strategy, models, migrations, and integration efforts, mentor teams, and collaborate with clients and partners to deliver robust, scalable solutions that meet national standards.

Qualifications

• Strong architecture and software engineering background.
• Experience leading teams of engineers or architects.
• Hands-on data architect experience with Java, Scala and Python.
• Experience with Big Data technologies and AWS.
• Experience with data modelling.
• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Experience designing for structured and unstructured data.

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture for high-profile government and private-sector projects with leadership.
• Define data strategy, migration, integration, and data models.
• Investigate live applications and systems at client sites.
• Document scope, context and constraints and secure acceptance.
• Define and document strategies, standards and guidelines for builds and deployments.
• Ensure architectural principles are applied to final systems.
• Define a strategic enterprise data model across the enterprise and products.
• Propose data storage solutions for distributed systems.
• Govern and support delivery of data solutions.
• Line manage, mentor, train and develop others.

Skills

Data architecture

Data strategy

Big Data

AWS

Java

Scala

Python

Microservices

REST

Leadership

Tools

Spark

Hadoop

SQL

Job description

Accenture plc in the UK is seeking a Data Architect - SC Cleared to define enterprise data architecture for government and private sector projects across Manchester, London, and Bristol. The role requires security clearance and hands-on data engineering with modern data platforms.

You will lead data strategy, models, migrations, and integration efforts, mentor teams, and collaborate with clients and partners to deliver robust, scalable solutions that meet national standards.