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Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements: Demonstrable experience designing, deploying, and operating big data platforms at scaleHands-on experience with OSS data ecosystems such as Spark, Trino, Airflow, Apache Superset, and similar technologiesKnowledge of cloud platforms and traditional on-premise hostingHands-on experience with Azure, AWS, and/or GCP is beneficialProven security architecture expertise, including threat modelling and secure-by-design practicesExperience with IAM, including RBAC/ABAC, privileged access concepts, and service-to-service authenticationExperience with encryption in transit and at rest, key management, and secrets managementExperience with secure logging/telemetry, auditability, and evidence-driven control assuranceExperience with secure SDLC, vulnerability management, and dependency/supply-chain risk controlsProven experience delivering end-to-end solution designs, from requirements through to production operations and supportRight to work in the UKResident in the UK Responsibilities: Define and maintain architecture artefacts, including HLDs, LLDs, reference architectures, patterns, ADRs, and reusable templatesContribute to the design and evolution of a petabyte-scale data platform built on open-source technologiesEvaluate technologies and drive standardisation by assessing OSS components and vendors, running PoCs, documenting trade-offs, and promoting reusable patterns to reduce fragmentationOwn the end-to-end solution design for custom-built applications that support our cybersecurity ambitionsProvide architecture and design input to software engineering and platform teams to support implementation and deliveryPartner with central architecture and governance teams to ensure solutions align with our controls, policies, standards, and guardrailsHelp ensure solutions remain compliant, operationally supportable, and within agreed cost boundariesRun design and governance forums and influence stakeholders across engineering, platform, and architecture teamsContribute hands-on when needed, including coding Technologies: AIAirflowAWSArchitectAzureBig DataCloudGCPIAMSupportOSSRESTRBACSecuritySpark More:
We are a global leader in consulting, technology services, and digital transformation, committed to delivering positive change through technology and human collaboration. You will join our Cybersecurity Sciences & Analytics team, a function of around $50m and 150 people, bringing together expertise across cybersecurity, data science, AI, software and cloud engineering, governance, and programme management. This is a hands-on Technical Solution Architect role within our CSA Strategy and Governance team, based in Sheffield in South Yorkshire with hybrid working of three days onsite and two from home. More flexibility may be offered once you are in role. Please note that only candidates who meet the criteria and have the right to work and reside in the UK will be considered, and no sponsorship is available.
last updated 32 week of 2026