Secure Federated Data Architect (SC/NPPV3) - Remote

Synergize Consulting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Synergize Consulting is seeking a Data Security and Integration Architect for an initial 6-month contract, likely extending. The role is predominantly remote with occasional travel to London or the South/South East.

You will design a secure, federated data-sharing capability across diverse source systems, focusing on access controls, auditability, resilience, and governance. Requires active SC and NPPV3 clearance and senior data-architecture experience.

Qualifications

• Active SC clearance and NPPV3.
• Senior-level data architecture experience within secure, complex or regulated environments.
• Experience of federated or distributed data-access architectures where data remains under the control of the source organisation.
• Strong API architecture experience, including RESTful APIs, OpenAPI specifications, contract management, versioning, pagination and error handling.
• Experience designing common or canonical data models and mapping different source schemas into a consistent target model.
• Strong understanding of data provenance, lineage, metadata, source attribution and end-to-end auditability.
• Experience separating reusable integration capabilities from source-specific adapters and configuration.
• Knowledge of authentication, authorisation, policy-based access control, encryption and secure audit logging.
• Experience dealing with partial results, timeouts, unavailable sources, performance constraints and operational resilience.
• Ability to produce architecture diagrams, data-flow models, mapping specifications, API contracts, operating models and technical roadmaps.
• Experience working collaboratively with engineers, security specialists, information-governance teams, data owners and non-technical stakeholders.
• Availability from approximately late October 2026 through to 31 March 2027.
• Willingness to attend secure UK locations and central meetings when required.

Responsibilities

• Design and prove a secure, federated data-sharing capability across differently configured source systems.
• Focus on access controls, auditability, resilience, information governance and operating model.
• Produce architecture diagrams, data-flow models, mapping specifications and API contracts.
• Collaborate with engineers, security specialists and information-governance teams to deliver the solution.

Skills

Security clearance

Data architecture

Federated data access

API architecture

Data models

Provenance & lineage

Audit logging

Authentication & authorization

Architecture diagrams

Cross-team collaboration

Travel availability

Tools

OpenAPI

REST APIs

API contracts

Job description

Synergize Consulting is seeking a Data Security and Integration Architect for an initial 6-month contract, likely extending. The role is predominantly remote with occasional travel to London or the South/South East.

You will design a secure, federated data-sharing capability across diverse source systems, focusing on access controls, auditability, resilience, and governance. Requires active SC and NPPV3 clearance and senior data-architecture experience.