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Technical Architect (Defence) – SC Cleared
Location: Hybrid (UK) – travel to secure customer sites as required
Contract: Initial 11-month contract with potential extension
Security Clearance: Active SC clearance required (DV eligibility desirable)
Technical Architect – Defence
We are seeking an experienced Technical Architect to join a high-profile UK defence programme, supporting the delivery of secure, resilient and interoperable technical solutions across complex environments.
This role is ideal for an architect with a strong background in the UK defence sector who has experience designing enterprise-scale technical architectures within secure or highly regulated environments.
Please note: Previous experience working on UK defence programmes is essential for this position.
The Role
Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will be responsible for designing and assuring technical architectures that support complex systems integration, digital transformation and secure technology adoption.
You will translate business and operational requirements into scalable, supportable technical solutions while ensuring alignment with security, governance and engineering standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Produce high-level and low-level technical architecture designs.
- Develop technical standards, reference architectures and reusable design patterns.
- Design secure and resilient architectures across enterprise defence environments.
- Define infrastructure, application, platform and integration architectures.
- Support interoperability between complex systems and platforms.
- Contribute to cloud, infrastructure and platform architecture across hybrid and private cloud environments.
- Participate in technical governance, architecture review boards and design authorities.
- Provide technical assurance throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Work closely with architects, engineering teams, delivery managers and security specialists.
- Assess emerging technologies and support innovation, experimentation and capability development.
- Produce technical documentation including architecture artefacts, technical roadmaps, interface specifications and migration strategies.
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Essential Experience
To be considered, you must have:
- Proven Technical Architecture experience within the UK defence sector (essential).
- Experience supporting MOD, defence industry or other secure government programmes.
- Experience designing complex enterprise-scale technical solutions.
- Experience delivering secure architectures across hybrid or classified environments.
- Strong systems integration and interoperability experience.
- Experience participating in architecture governance and technical assurance processes.
- Familiarity with defence engineering and acquisition frameworks.
Technical Skills
You'll have expertise across a number of the following:
Architecture & Engineering
- Technical Architecture
- Infrastructure Architecture
- Integration Architecture
- Systems Engineering
- Solution Design
- Technical Governance
- Configuration Management
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Infrastructure & Cloud
- Hybrid and Private Cloud
- VMware
- Kubernetes
- Containerisation
- Virtualisation Technologies
- Infrastructure as Code
Networking & Security
- Secure Network Design
- Zero Trust Architecture
- Identity & Access Management
- Encryption Technologies
- Security Monitoring
- Network Segmentation
- Cyber Security Architecture
Data & Integration
- API Design
- Service-Oriented Architecture
- Event-Driven Architecture
- Data Platforms
- Data Integration
- Messaging Technologies
Tooling
- Sparx Enterprise Architect
- Visio
- Jira
- Confluence
- Git
- DevOps
Desirable Experience
Experience in one or more of the following would be advantageous:
- Defence R&D
- Secure cloud migration programmes
- Command and Control systems
- Operational Technology (OT)
- Digital Engineering
- AI-enabled capabilities
- Multi-domain integration
- Military communications and information systems
- Defence digital transformation initiatives
Security Requirements
- Active UK SC Clearance is mandatory.
- Eligibility for DV Clearance is advantageous.
- Ability to work within secure environments and comply with government security policies and information assurance requirements.
Please note: Due to the nature of this work, applicants must hold active UK SC Clearance and have demonstrable experience delivering technical architecture within the UK defence sector. Unfortunately, candidates without relevant defence experience cannot be considered for this position.
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