Senior Data Architect - GDS - G7

Overview

As a GDS Senior Data Architect working in the Data Security team in the Office of the Government Chief Data Officer, you’ll collaborate with other government departments to develop and publish data security standards for government and the wider public sector. You will work with teams in GDS—including consulting technical architects, the technology policy team, tech writers, and others—to shape standards, deliver presentations to stakeholders at all levels, and travel to various government departments and agencies.

• Develop data security standards for government
• Advise on data security for government services
• Define the government API data and technical standards, including how to make APIs secure
• Identify opportunities to use novel privacy‑enhancing technologies to enable data‑driven collaboration without compromising on privacy and security
• Develop data security controls to mitigate risks applying to AI systems
• Work in agile multi‑disciplinary teams, with software developers using tools such as Git Hub and following continuous delivery and Dev Ops practices

• Understand how to balance the needs of security against the need of users to access and use data to derive value
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, support and host discussions within a multidisciplinary team, and manage differing stakeholder perspectives
• Work with subject matter experts to develop standards, policies and guidance to secure data
• Show an awareness of opportunities for innovation with new tools and uses of data, for example privacy‑enhancing technologies
• Understand what data governance is and take responsibility for the assurance of data solutions and make recommendations to ensure compliance
• Explain the concepts and principles of data modelling, produce, maintain and update relevant data models for an organisation's specific needs
• Explain the strategic context of your work and why it is important, support strategic planning in an administrative capacity
• Design data architecture that deals with specific data security problems and align it to enterprise‑wide standards and principles
• Demonstrate a good understanding of data security concepts and can apply them to a technical level