Systems architect Work, Jobs in Wales (with Salaries)

Senior Data Architect
Office for National Statistics —Newport
- £56,861 - £66,704 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
10d
Systems Integration & Test Engineer
Amentum —Cardiff
- Full-time
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- APIs
- Employee assistance programme
Staff Software Engineer (Team Lead) - Engine by Starling
Starling —Cardiff
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- DevOps
- System design
- Java
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
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Staff Software Engineer - Engine by Starling
Starling —Cardiff
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- DevOps
- Java
- AWS
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
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Lead Business Analyst
Office for National Statistics —Newport
- £56,861 - £66,704 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
1d
Civil Engineer – Drainage & SuDS Specialist
Shear Design —Cardiff
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- AutoCAD
- Civil engineering
- Engineering
Project Controls Manager - Global
KLA —Newport
- Full-time
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Civil engineering
- Microsoft Excel
- Annual leave
Database Reliability Engineer
Starling —Cardiff
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Java
- AWS
- APIs
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
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Systems Principal Architect
General Dynamics Land Systems UK —Pentrebach
- £59,000 - £74,000 a year
- Full-time
- Engineering
8d
Senior Systems Architect
General Dynamics Land Systems UK —Pentrebach
- £45,600 - £57,000 a year
- Full-time
- Engineering
ICT Infrastructure Manager
South Wales Police —Bridgend
- £53,451 - £57,186 a year
- Full-time
- Analysis skills
- Bachelor's degree
- Team management
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
Senior Delivery Consultant - Connect and Lex, Amazon Connect Center of Delivery Excellence
AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch) —Swansea
- Full-time
- Azure
- Military
- Salesforce
OCP Networking Architect
TechBiz Global GmbH —Wales
- Full-time
- Doctoral degree
- English
- Master's degree
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Systems Officer (Environmental)
YGC - Ymgynghoriaeth Gwynedd Consultancy —Caernarfon
- £31,537 - £33,699 a year
- Full-time
- In-person
- Language training provided
- Sick pay
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ICT Cloud Infrastructure and Platforms Specialist
South Wales Police —Bridgend
- £47,046 - £54,696 a year
- Full-time
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
Senior Estimator
Flintshire Fabrications Limited —Holywell
- £40,000 - £50,000 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Excel
- Engineering
- Microsoft Office
- Free parking
Quick apply
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ICT Enterprise Specialist
South Wales Police —Bridgend
- £47,046 - £54,696 a year
- Full-time
- Azure
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
Senior Engineer (Contracts)
Rhondda Cynon Taf —Rhondda Cynon Taff
- £42,839 a year
- Full-time
- In-person
- Annual leave
- Flexible schedule
Head of AI Transformation
Proxima —Cardiff
- Hybrid work
- Azure
- Travel
- AI
- Annual leave
6d
Cyber Security Analyst
Medr —Merthyr Tydfil
- £39,457 - £46,243 a year
- Full-time
- Azure
- Computer Science
- Microsoft Office
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
1d

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Senior Data Architect

Office for National Statistics -
Newport

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Job details

Permanent | Full-time
£56,861 - £66,704 a year
10 days ago

Benefits

Company pension

Qualifications

Data modelling
Presentation skills
Metadata

Full job description

Details

Reference number

466284

Salary

£56,861 - £66,704

Plus a role specific skills allowance of £1,300 (non-pensionable and non-contractual) may be payable.

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Grade 7

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

Data Growth and Operations

Type of role

Architecture and Data
Digital
Information Technology

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours

Number of jobs available

Location
About the job
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Location

The locations for this role are Newport and Titchfield (Fareham).

This role is aligned to ONS hybrid working principles, which are based on attending the office with purpose. The postholder will be expected to contribute to the organisations overall 40% office attendance, in line with business and role requirements.

Due to workforce controls you can only select Manchester / London / Darlington / Edinburgh if you are an existing ONS / UKSA employee contracted to that location. If you are not contracted at one of these sites, these options are not available to you.

Only existing ONS contractual homeworkers can select Homeworking.

Applicants who select a location they are not eligible for will be removed from the recruitment process and will not be considered for alternative locations. Please refer to attachments for further terms and flexibilities.

The induction process for the role will be conducted in person.

About the job

Job summary

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UKs largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration.

ONS will be designing, planning, and delivering a mandatory, questionnaire-based, whole-population census of England and Wales in 2031. The data collected helps shape public services, guide policy decisions, and support long-term planning across government and society

Were recruiting a Senior Data Architect to join our Data Products, Services and Governance (DPSG) directorate.

Data Products, Services and Governance (DPSG), which sits centrally within ONS, provides a cross-ONS capability for data, including data access and preparation, and the provision of data and linked data products.

DPSG develops and manages the systems and processes that underpin the distribution of data across ONS and beyond. DPSG provides data to ONS, academia, wider government, and other external users in a safe and controlled way, supporting and encouraging users to maximise data utility, enabling innovation and statistical and research use.

Job description

As a Senior Data Architect, you will be responsible to - deliver the data models, data journeys, understand/capture the data (and metadata) management including data governance specifications and mechanisms, identify data transformations, ensure data/ technical standardisation, define data volumes and high level non-functional requirements, define and design the enabling technologies.

Responsibilities

Work across stakeholders, including business and technical teams to ensure data architecture plays a key role in the design of an end-to-end data pipeline.
Lead on data architecture contributions to support the design and development of a end to end statistical data pipeline.
Contribute to the design and delivery of our Enterprise Metadata Management programme.
Participate in cross-government data architecture communities, to help set direction and share your expertise.
Champion the work of the DALI division across ONS.
Contribute to the ongoing implementation of the ONS data strategy (including data principles, policies and standards) and provide advice to stakeholders on how to comply with the strategy.
Line management of a small team one or two data architects or apprentices, and/or matrix management technical work.
Play a role in the Data Architecture branch leadership team, particularly supporting the development of technical capabilities of your colleagues.

Person specification

Essential Criteria:

Communicating between the technical and the non-technical (Practitioner) - Listen to and interpret the needs of technical and non-technical stakeholders, and manage their expectations. Manage active and reactive communication, support or host difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.
Data Modelling (Practitioner) - Produce relevant data models across multiple subject areas. Explain which models to use for which purpose. Understand industry-recognised data modelling patterns and standards, and when to apply them. Compare and align different data models
Metadata Management (Practitioner) An ability to design a metadata repository/ service, suggest design changes to improve metadata repositories/ service, ensure application of metadata standards, advise less experienced members of the team about metadata management.
Data Standards (Practitioner) - Create data standards for different subjects and ensure senior leaders understand them. Work with subject matter experts across the organisation to introduce data standards best practice. Monitor compliance with policies and standards in the organisation. Make recommendations about how the organisation should resolve breaches of standards.
Communicating Data (Awareness) - Understand the appropriate media to communicate findings. Shape communications for the audience.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Working Together
Seeing the Big Picture
Making Effective Decisions
Changing and Improving

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Communicating between the technical and non-technical (Practitioner)
Data Modelling (Practitioner)

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £56,861, Office for National Statistics contributes £16,472 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

The Office for National Statistics is part of the Civil Service, and as such we share a number of key benefits with other departments, whilst also having our own unique offerings to support our valued colleagues across the organisation.

Whether you are hearing about us for the first time or already know a bit about our organisation, we hope that our careers site will give you a great insight into the benefits and facilities available to our colleagues, and our fantastic working culture.

Inclusion & Accessibility

At ONS we are always looking to attract the very best people from the widest possible talent pool, and we are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer. As a Disability Confident Leader were committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance.

If you would like an accessible version of any of the attachments or recruitment documents below or linked to in this advert, please contact the recruitment team who will be happy to assist.

ONS are committed to flexible ways of working that support a healthy work-life balance. ONS has already considered how this job could be right sized for applicants working flexibly and we are happy to explore options with you about working part time, in a job share or flexibly, in line with our hybrid working policies.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Security Clearance

For ONS the requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for 3 consecutive years immediately prior to applying and the department will consider eligibility by exception on a case-by-case basis. You will be asked to provide information regarding your UK residency during your application, and failure to provide this will result in your application being rejected.

If you are unsure that you meet the eligibility above, please read the information available on Gov.uk on this link or contact the recruitment email on the advert before applying to discuss, as failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected and any offer of employment being withdrawn.

At the point of SC application, you will need to provide or give access to the following evidence:

Departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and security records)
UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records
Your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency
Security Services records

Please note we will reach out to you once the advert has closed to confirm eligibility for this role, this will be via an e-mail. Please check your junk e-mails for any correspondence.

Visa Sponsorship

ONS can offer visa sponsorship as part of this recruitment campaign. However, applicants must still hold valid right to work in the UK at the point employment commences.

To work at the ONS, candidates must meet both UK right to work and security clearance requirements (where applicable).

If you are unsure whether you meet the appropriate right to work or security clearance eligibility criteria, please refer to the guidance on Gov.uk or contact the recruitment email provided in the advert before applying. Failure to meet these requirements will result in your application being rejected and employment offers being withdrawn.

Application Process

Number of Stages: 2 stage process

Stage 1: Application

Stage 2: Interview

Stage 1 Application

The assessment process at the application stage will be based on your work history, CV, skills, experience, and personal statement. It is important that your application is tailored to highlight the skills, knowledge, and experience relevant to the role.

A personal statement is required at application stage, the maximum word count allowed is 1250, which should not be exceeded. You should provide evidence for each essential skill criterion listed in the person specification. As these criteria are scored, it is advisable to give clear examples for each one, including the impact of your actions, ideally utilising the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result).

Please note that Success Profiles Behaviour examples are not required at this stage of the application process.

In instances where a high number of applications are received, the sift pass mark may be adjusted, and candidates will be invited to interview based on merit order, i.e., those with the highest scores.

When a high volume of applications are received, the sift pass mark may be adjusted. Candidates will be invited to interview based on their merit order, with those achieving the highest scores being prioritised. Applicants who score below the adjusted pass mark but still pass will be placed on hold and may be invited to interview at a later date.

We often have similar roles available at different grades. If a candidate is suitable for a similar role or a lower grade than they have applied for, we may offer the candidate that role without the need to go through a further selection process providing the role has the same behaviours, and essential skills.

Stage 2 Interview

If invited to interview, you will be assessed using techniques aligned with the Civil Service Success Profiles framework, covering all behaviours listed in the job advert and any required technical skills.

You will be required to provide a 10 minute presentation at interview. The presentation topic will be emailed to candidates who have passed the initial online application stage, 1 week prior to interview. This presentation will assess candidates against the technical Communicating between the technical and non-technical (Practitioner).

Interviews will be via Microsoft Teams.

A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made.

Important Dates

Eligibility Security Clearance checks from 29/07/2026 - 05/08/2026. We will be sending you an e-mail with a form to fill out. Please check your junk e-mails for any correspondence.
Sift will be conducted from 06/08/2026
Interviews will be conducted from 18/08/2026

For the full terms and conditions of the post, please see attachment.

Please note that all campaigns may be subject to withdrawal at any stage if the internal resource position changes.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

See our vetting charter .

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : Government Digital and Data Recruitment
Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

Email : [email protected]

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the Department, you can contact the Civil Service Commission

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