At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and deliver innovative data solutions for national security clients.
- Company: Join Envitia, a top-rated medium-sized company known for innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, personal growth opportunities, and a dynamic work environment.
- Other info: Work in small teams, with up to 80% onsite at client locations.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on national security while working with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Strong expertise in data architecture and experience with AWS or Azure services.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
We deliver situational awareness and information advantage across C5ISR, fusing cyber, geospatial, and kinetic data into an operational picture. This transforms fragmented data into a shared understanding of the battlespace, delivering actionable insight when it matters most.
Our solutions are secure-by-design, built from the ground up to protect sensitive information and ensure resilience in contested environments. We simplify complex heterogeneous data sources into a rich picture of fused intelligence, providing a digital backbone that underpins success.
We operate as small teams delivering fast value, blending deep technical expertise with agile methods to deliver measurable outcomes. A career with Envitia enables you to work with mission driven innovation.
As a Data Architect at Envitia, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping data solutions that directly support the UK’s national security mission. Working within our expert consulting division, you’ll design and deliver cutting-edge, data-driven systems that empower our national security clients to make faster, better-informed decisions.
This role goes beyond solution delivery — you’ll help define Envitia’s future capabilities by contributing to our growing suite of intellectual property, frameworks, and methodologies that underpin our work in the national security domain. You’ll develop proof-of-concept demonstrators, refine our approaches to complex data challenges, and help position Envitia as a trusted partner in this critical market.
Due to the sensitive nature of the projects, the successful candidate will be required to obtain enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV) security clearance.
- Gather and analyse requirements to design tailored data solutions for customers.
- Develop data strategies and governance frameworks to drive organisational data transformation.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of modern data architectures across various technologies and platforms.
- Collaborate with project managers, technical teams, and stakeholders to ensure successful implementation.
- Provide technical leadership, ensuring solutions align with client needs and regulatory standards.
- Develop cost models, risk assessments, and business cases for proposed solutions.
- Strong technical design expertise in core data architecture disciplines including data modelling, data analysis, metadata management, data transformation, data migration and master data.
- Experience in establishing data analytics and supporting AI solutions.
- Data quality/validation experience: designing metrics and KPIs to verify and automate management of data quality.
- Good working experience of AWS (e.g. S3, Kinesis, Glue, Redshift, Lambda and EMR) and/or Azure data services (e.g. Working experience in Data Lakehouse environments such as Databricks, Snowflake and/or Microsoft Fabric).
The successful candidate must be eligible for an enhanced Developed Vetted / eDV security clearance. It is anticipated the role will require up to 80% (4d/wk) onsite working at client locations – Gloucester, London, Manchester (based on project requirements).
