Technical Architect

Venn Group
Technical Architect (DV cleared)
3 days on site per week (Central London)
Day rate: £450 - £550p/d
Inside IR35
12 Month contract

Brief Summary 

Venn Group are seeking a DV cleared Technical Architect with police experience to support the Senior Architect in providing Enterprise design and support expertise for a range of ICT Projects.

Main duties of the job:

• Document current “As-Is” and future “To-Be” designs for projects
• Designing solutions
• Creating Architecture diagrams/data sets to help communicate the changes occurring across CTP
• Identifying technical experiments to validate design decisions
• Work across projects and with other architects to ensure that all systems align to the Strategic vision and any technical debt identified
• Ensure that any architectural dependencies between projects are understood, documented and accepted

 Skills/ Qualifications:

• Experience of designing systems via Architectural Frameworks especially TOGAF
• Police Experience
• Active DV Clearance
• Understanding of ITIL and Agile methodologies.
• Experience in writing Design Documentation suitable for accreditation at up to IL5
• Experience of working with Accreditor to ensure the design meets the needs of the security standards being applied for IL5
• Demonstrate Expert knowledge in the design and build of resilient designs
• Expertise of documenting business processes using BPMN (or similar frameworks)

Competence in a wide range of the following areas (You do not need everything)

Designing a Microsoft Windows environment with a significant combination of the following components:

• Windows Server
• Microsoft SQL server
• Active Directory
• GPO
• High Availability services
• Windows desktop / VDI
• Certificates and PKI design
• RSA Tokens

Experience designing network infrastructure with a significant combination of the following key components:

• Cisco Routing / Switches
• TCP/IP
• Network Services (DNS/DHCP/NTP)
• Intrusion protection & Detection.
• Expertise of designing solutions hosted on AWS including their Well Architected Framework and Landing Zones (experience of PALZ is a bonus)
• Expertise of designing and working with AzureAD and Office 365 Services
• Expertise of designing a Linux environment within a larger Windows environment.
• Expertise of VMware Virtualisation

Expertise of designing and developing software solutions using 2 or more of the following:

• NET (VB, C#, ASP.NET, .NET CORE)
• MVC Framework
• Python
• JavaScript (REACT, Bootstrap Frameworks)
• Database design
• SQL / SQL Server
• NoSQL technologies e.g. MongoDB, Hadoop, etc.

To apply for this role and for more information, please send your updated CV to Jacob Rufus at