SC-Cleared Solution Architect for Data & Knowledge

VE3; Maidenhead; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

VE3 is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect (SC Cleared) to shape a secure, scalable enterprise information management capability in the United Kingdom. You will translate business and technical needs into an implementable architecture covering data ingestion, discovery, integrations, access controls, and auditable operations.

The role requires Active UK SC clearance and 5+ years of experience in solution architecture within a regulated environment, with emphasis on governance, security and

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Solution Architect delivering integrated enterprise data or information-management solutions.
• Ability to design APIs, data flows, search/discovery services, storage patterns and secure integrations.
• Working knowledge of IAM, role-based access control, encryption, audit logging and secure-by-design approaches.
• Experience defining availability, performance, scalability, supportability and operational non-functional requirements.
• Proficiency with architecture diagrams, design documentation, options appraisal and technical governance.
• Confidence engaging business, security, delivery and engineering stakeholders and leading technical decisions.
• Cloud or private-platform deployments in controlled or accredited environments.
• Knowledge management, metadata catalogue, enterprise search or graph/relationship-oriented patterns.
• Experience preparing security assurance evidence and supporting formal acceptance activities.

Responsibilities

• Define solution components, interfaces, deployment patterns, dependencies and non-functional requirements.
• Design metadata management, search/filtering, relationship navigation, reporting and export capabilities.
• Specify identity integration and single sign-on where appropriate; implement RBAC and audit controls.
• Evaluate existing platforms and integration options with reuse, portability and maintainability decisions.
• Create architecture views, design decisions, threat/risk considerations and traceability to acceptance criteria.
• Guide engineers and information architects; resolve cross-functional design issues and support demonstrations and testing.
• Design for monitoring, backup/recovery, documentation, handover and reduced long-term supplier dependency.

Skills

API design

Data flows

IAM

RBAC

Encryption

Audit logging

Non-functional requirements

Architecture diagrams

Technical governance

Stakeholder communication

Job description

VE3 is seeking a hands-on Solution Architect (SC Cleared) to shape a secure, scalable enterprise information management capability in the United Kingdom. You will translate business and technical needs into an implementable architecture covering data ingestion, discovery, integrations, access controls, and auditable operations.

The role requires Active UK SC clearance and 5+ years of experience in solution architecture within a regulated environment, with emphasis on governance, security and