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