Senior Data Architect – London, UK – Fulltime

Senior Data Architect – London, UK – Fulltime Overview

Capgemini is looking for an experienced Data Architect to join its Integration & Data practice and help shape enterprise data architecture for financial services clients. The role is focused on designing and delivering secure, scalable, cloud-enabled data platforms that treat data as a strategic business asset. This is a permanent position based in London, and the working model is hybrid, with time split between company offices, client locations, and home. Full-time home working is not permitted.

What you will do

• Take ownership of solution design for the bank’s EDL and ODS platforms running on Cloudera in AWS, leading the data design aspect of delivery.
• Design end-to-end data lake and distributed data solutions that meet business requirements within a broader implementation programme.
• Contribute to solution planning by supporting estimation work and identifying technical assumptions, risks, and issues early.
• Review architecture and design outputs created by other data solution architects within the delivery factory.
• Help define and improve best practices for data architecture, while also spotting areas where the factory needs technical or process improvement.
• Create design artefacts either on your own or as part of a wider team.
• Work closely with business teams and programme stakeholders to clarify and refine data requirements.
• Present designs to the bank’s Architecture Review Board when needed.
• Collaborate with stakeholders in the Group Data Office and across the wider business.
• Support solution architects outside the factory on change initiatives and help maintain alignment across teams.
• Ensure all solutions follow strategic architecture principles and the organisation’s overall direction.
• Review technical team designs to confirm they remain consistent with the approved solution architecture.
• Help the delivery lead break the solution into smaller increments that can be delivered iteratively in sprints.
• Support other engineering activities in the factory, including mapping, build, testing, and release work.
• Review requirements and change requests to make sure the design continues to meet business and technical needs.

What you need

• Substantial experience as a solution architect delivering large-scale distributed data solutions in complex, multi-vendor change environments.
• Deep knowledge of distributed data platforms, especially Cloudera CDH/CDP or similar technologies, across both on-premises and cloud environments.
• Experience handling large datasets, streaming data, and unstructured data sources.
• Practical exposure to technologies such as Cassandra, HBase, Kafka, and Spark.
• Strong ETL and data pipeline experience, particularly with modern big data tooling such as Airflow and NiFi, or equivalent tools.
• Programming ability in at least one of Java, Python, or Scala.
• Understanding of modern engineering methods and technologies.
• Good grounding in data architecture principles.
• A continuous-improvement mindset and an appetite for innovation.
• Financial services experience would be an advantage.
• Broad experience across complex enterprise IT environments, with the ability to contribute quickly and effectively.
• The ability to work independently and take responsibility for complex data delivery work.
• Experience or familiarity with APIs, integration, streaming, and change data capture.

What Capgemini offers

• A hybrid working model with a mix of office, client-site, and home-based working.
• Access to wellbeing support, including Mental Health Champions and wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• Recognition as a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing in 2024.
• A strong learning culture with many development opportunities, including think tanks and hackathons.
• Access to a large learning library and external certifications from providers such as AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, and cybersecurity organisations.
• Employment with a company recognised by Ethisphere as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies for 13 consecutive years.
• The opportunity to work for a global business that values inclusion, sustainability, and professional growth.

About the wider organisation

Capgemini describes itself as an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner that delivers measurable business value through technology, design, engineering, strategy, and business operations. The company has a long history, a large international workforce, and a broad partner ecosystem. It emphasises collaboration, ethical business conduct, diversity, and helping clients use technology to innovate and grow.

Additional information

The role is for an experienced professional and is offered on a permanent contract in London. Capgemini also states that it is a Disability Confident Employer at Level 2 and will offer an interview to applicants who declare a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria, provided they opt in during the application process. Applications can be started through the job posting, including the option to apply with LinkedIn.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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