Senior Cloud Data Architect: Real-Time, Secure Platforms

Sanderson Government & Defence; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanderson Government & Defence is seeking an experienced Lead Data Architect to shape secure, large-scale data solutions for mission-critical programmes. You will define data strategy, design resilient cloud architectures, and lead teams on complex data platforms.

You will engage senior stakeholders, deliver scalable data platforms, and guide cross-functional teams on best practices while ensuring compliance with government regulations.

Qualifications

• 6+ years' experience in data architecture on complex, secure programmes.
• Strong hands-on AWS experience with EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, Redshift; Azure or GCP a bonus.
• Proven experience using Apache Flink for real-time data processing.
• Experience leading, mentoring and developing technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Engage with senior stakeholders to understand requirements and provide strategic data architecture guidance.
• Design and deliver secure, scalable data platforms aligned to performance and regulatory requirements.
• Architect cloud-native batch and real-time data solutions using AWS and other public cloud platforms.
• Provide technical leadership across cross-functional teams and set best practice standards.
• Design data models, ETL pipelines, warehousing solutions and distributed systems.
• Build and support real-time streaming platforms using Apache Flink and related technologies.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and government regulations.
• Track delivery against designs and manage design deviations.
• Support pre-sales and bids with technical input and solution design.
• Advise on data standard breaches and remediation approaches.
• Stay current with emerging data, cloud and security technologies.

Skills

Data architecture

AWS cloud

Stakeholder engagement

Team leadership

Secure-by-design

Data modelling patterns

Real-time streaming

DevOps basics

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Apache Flink

Job description

Sanderson Government & Defence is seeking an experienced Lead Data Architect to shape secure, large-scale data solutions for mission-critical programmes. You will define data strategy, design resilient cloud architectures, and lead teams on complex data platforms.

You will engage senior stakeholders, deliver scalable data platforms, and guide cross-functional teams on best practices while ensuring compliance with government regulations.