At a Glance
- Tasks: Shape enterprise and service architectures for complex defence clients and lead governance forums.
- Company: Join a dynamic team at Squarcle, driving digital and defence growth.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and opportunities to work on impactful projects.
- Other info: Engage in a fast-paced environment with excellent career advancement opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in defence technology while collaborating with senior stakeholders.
- Qualifications: Active Security Clearance and significant architecture experience in complex organisations.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
Responsibilities include supporting Squarcle’s digital and defence growth by shaping enterprise, solution and service architectures for complex NATO, MOD and wider defence clients. Operate across bid, mobilisation and delivery phases, helping Squarcle interpret client requirements, define credible technical and service delivery approaches, shape transition and operating models, and assure that proposed solutions are secure, supportable, interoperable and deliverable within classified, multi-national and mission-critical environments.
Provide strategic technology and service delivery advice to senior client stakeholders, clearly articulating trade-offs, risks, assumptions, dependencies and recommendations. Develop compelling bid narratives, technical responses, service management approaches, delivery models, acceptance strategies and mobilisation plans. Define and maintain target enterprise, solution and service architectures for client organisations, ensuring alignment with business strategy, operating models, mission outcomes and regulatory context.
Develop architectures and service models that reflect NATO and defence delivery environments, including development, test, integration, staging, training, operational, classified and deployed environments. Chair or play a leading role in architecture and service governance forums, assuring designs against agreed enterprise standards, service principles, NCSC Secure by Design principles, NIST Cybersecurity Framework expectations and client-specific security requirements.
Requirements:
- Active Security Clearance, or capable of achieving SC.
- Significant practical architecture experience at senior or strategic level, shaping technology strategy, roadmaps, operating models and delivery approaches across complex organisations.
- Experience working on complex defence, NATO, MOD, NCIA or similarly secure public-sector technology programmes.
- Experience defining or assuring delivery environments for secure systems, including development, test, integration, staging, training, operational and classified environments.
- Experience supporting bids, ITTs, proposals or competitive procurements for complex technology, systems integration or managed service programmes.
- Understanding of solution architectures in complex legacy estates, including interface definition, data exchange, operational dependencies and non-functional requirements.
- Strong background in digital transformation, cloud adoption and modernisation of legacy estates across applications, data and infrastructure.
- Proven experience working in a consulting or professional services environment, engaging directly with senior client stakeholders.
- Deep understanding of common architecture frameworks and practices, including TOGAF and NAF or MODAF, and how to apply them pragmatically.
- Track record of leading architecture governance, standards definition and assurance across multiple programmes or portfolios.
- Experience developing architecture and service artefacts such as capability maps, application and data landscapes, integration blueprints, service models, support models, environment models, transition plans and service readiness material.
- Solid knowledge of cloud platforms, integration patterns, data platforms, cybersecurity principles and secure-by-design delivery at enterprise level.
