SC + NPPV3 Senior Data Architect

Senior Data Architect

Clearance required: SC + NPPV3

Nationality requirement: Single national.

Location: Remote.

Job Description:

Cloud Solution Design:
o Design scalable, secure, and highly available architectures using AWS services such as EC2,
o Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, VPC, and CloudFront.
o Select appropriate AWS services based on business requirements, performance needs, and
o cost considerations.

Architecture Governance & Standards
o Define and enforce cloud architecture best practices, patterns, and standards.
o Ensure solutions adhere to security frameworks, compliance rules, IAM principles, and AWS
o Well Architected Framework guidelines.

Technical Leadership
o Provide technical direction to engineering teams, developers, DevOps engineers, and data
o specialists.
o Review solution designs, perform architectural assurance, and guide teams through
o implementation challenges.

Security & Compliance
o Implement security controls including IAM policies, encryption, network segmentation,
o monitoring, and threat detection.
o Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements (eg, GDPR, ISO27001, PCI DSS) through AWS-native tools and architectural controls.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
o Lead the adoption of IaC using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK.
o Standardize reusable templates and modules for consistent and repeatable deployments across environments.

Performance & Cost Optimisation
o Monitor workloads using tools like CloudWatch, Trusted Advisor, and Cost Explorer.
o Optimise infrastructure for performance, reliability, cost efficiency and operational excellence.

Cloud Migration & Modernisation
o Define migration strategies including rehosting, refactoring, replatforming, and
o containerisation.
o Design modern architectures involving microservices, serverless, APIs, and event driven patterns.

Stakeholder Engagement
o Act as the technical counterpart to product owners, business stakeholders, and delivery
o managers.
o Communicate complex cloud concepts in clear, non technical language when needed.

Troubleshooting & Escalation
o Provide advanced support for complex issues across application, infrastructure, and integration layers.
o Lead root cause analysis for high priority incidents involving AWS workloads.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation
o Stay current with new AWS services and architectural trends.
o Identify opportunities to modernise, automate, simplify, or improve existing cloud environments