Senior Data Architect

In this role you will lead and shape secure, scalable PostgreSQL data platforms hosted on Amazon RDS for government and defence contexts. You’ll collaborate with enterprise architects, cloud engineers, and security teams to ensure resilient, compliant database services that enable critical operations. You will combine hands-on architecture, optimization, and recovery planning with governance and DevOps practices to deliver reliable data services at scale. This is a senior specialist position focused on secure, efficient data platforms and continuous improvement.

• Lead design, implementation, and ongoing improvement of PostgreSQL databases on Amazon RDS
• Define secure, resilient, and scalable database architectures for critical workloads
• Oversee performance tuning, capacity planning, and availability management
• Design and maintain backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities
• Provide expert operational support, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis for complex incidents
• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, and development teams to integrate databases into wider platforms
• Contribute to governance, design reviews, and assurance activities
• Support IaC delivery through Terraform and AWS CloudFormation
• Promote automation and CI/CD integration within DevOps delivery models
• Create and maintain technical documentation and support artefacts
• Ensure alignment with security, audit, compliance, and operational requirements in government/defence environments

• Senior level experience as Data Architect, Database Architect, or Senior DBA
• Proven PostgreSQL database design, administration, and optimization
• Extensive experience with Amazon RDS (HA, backup, recovery, monitoring, performance)
• Experience designing resilient cloud-hosted database solutions for critical services
• Strong security, resilience, disaster recovery, and operational best practices
• IaC experience with Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation
• Experience supporting databases in modern CI/CD and DevOps environments
• Ability to produce detailed technical and architectural documentation
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience in regulated, security-conscious environments

• Stakeholder management
• Communication with diverse audiences
• Collaborative mindset
• PostgreSQL
• Amazon RDS
• High availability