IAM Data Architect - SC Cleared

Salary: £? - ? per year

• Strong experience in data architecture and data modelling.
• Proven ability to design, maintain and reverse-engineer data models.
• Experience with data integration, APIs, microservices and interoperability.
• Knowledge of metadata management, data governance, data quality and data security.
• Understanding of enterprise data management principles and the data lifecycle.
• Experience defining data standards and assessing their impact and compliance.
• Ability to translate business requirements into robust data architecture solutions.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation and stakeholder communication skills.
• Experience delivering data architecture for projects or programmes.
• Desirable: NHS, healthcare or public sector technology experience.
• Desirable: TOGAF, Zachman, PEAF or other enterprise architecture frameworks.
• Desirable: Messaging, directory services and interoperability standards.
• Desirable: Healthcare data standards, including SNOMED CT, FHIR, OpenEHR and EN ISO 13606.
• Desirable: Knowledge of development environments, programming languages and platforms; Java experience.
• The posting requires active, transferable UK SC clearance and sole British nationality; dual nationality is not accepted. It also states that clearance must meet applicable validity and continuity requirements, including recent qualifying government or police service and no disqualifying overseas residency gaps.

• Design, develop and maintain data models aligned with business and programme requirements.
• Support data architecture across the SSO, IAM and Staff Index workstreams.
• Define data standards, metadata, data dictionaries and governance requirements.
• Design data integration and interoperability solutions using APIs and microservices.
• Undertake data profiling, source system analysis and reverse-engineering of existing data models.
• Assess data quality, security, compliance and integration impacts.
• Support data lifecycle management, including upgrades, migration, archiving and decommissioning.
• Define functional and non-functional requirements and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
• Produce technical documentation and communicate architecture decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Architect
• IAM
• Support
• Java
• Security
• TOGAF
• microservices
• API

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We are seeking an experienced Data Architect to support a Single Sign-On (SSO) and Identity & Access Management (IAM) programme, working with solution architects, technical teams and business stakeholders to deliver secure, consistent data management and integration across complex systems. This is a 10-month contract, stated to run until August 2027, with an ASAP start and a rate of up to £590 per day inside IR35. The posting describes the role as fully remote and also lists Leeds as the location, with hybrid working and approximately one day per month onsite.

last updated 42 week of 2026