Consultant - Data & AI Architecture

Capgemini; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global consulting firm as a Data & AI Platform Architect. You'll partner with clients to implement cutting-edge data architecture methods, driving transformation and delivering outcomes. This role offers opportunities for personal and professional growth in a dynamic environment, with a focus on innovation and collaboration.

Benefits

Flexible Benefits

Wellbeing Programs

Training and Development Opportunities

Hybrid Working Options

Qualifications

• Proven success in data & AI platform consulting.
• Good foundation in data engineering.
• Experience working within Agile delivery methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of Data & AI Platform/Architecture DevOps projects.
• Develop new skills in Data & AI Platform/Architecture.
• Contribute to business development and internal initiatives.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Presentation Skills

Problem Solving

Data Engineering

Agile Methodologies

Education

Certification in Data Architecture

Certification in Data Engineering

Certification in Data Management

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Amazon Web Services

Microsoft Azure

Databricks

Snowflake

Python

Java

Scala

Spark

SQL

Job description

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We are a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology.

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Your Role

In a world of globalisation and constant innovation organisations are creating, consuming, and transforming unprecedented volumes of data. We endeavour to work alongside our clients to extract and leverage key insights driven by our Data & AI Architecture and Analytics expertise and capabilities.
It’s an exciting time to join our Data & AI Architecture Team as we grow together to keep up with client demand and launch offerings to the market. In your role, you will partner with our clients to deliver outcomes through the implementation of cutting-edge data architecture methods.
Are you passionate about Data & AI Platform Architecture - and believe it is the key to unlocking business value? Then read on and reach out!

As a consultant in the business, you’ll help set the direction, driving forward the business, model our values and behaviours, and coach and develop junior members of the team.

Key expectations from this role include:

• You will support the delivery of our Data & AI Platform/Architecture DevOps projects and, working closely with your colleagues, ensure Client expectations are met at all stages.
• You will continue to develop new skills in the fields of Data & AI Platform/Architecture, with support from your colleagues, to ensure that current methods are used where appropriate.
• You will support the development on internal initiatives related to the fields of Data & AI Platform/Architecture, to ensure capability growth as well as for Business Development purposes.
• You will seek to deliver work in a structured manner, finding a balance between creativity and practicality to ensure we meet client standards efficiently within the agreed timescales.
• You will work effectively in a team, supporting your peers in delivering at pace and meeting our own high internal standards of output and delivery.

As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development – Contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
• Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

Your Profile

• Proven success in data & AI platform consulting, with a track record of delivering successful data-driven projects.
• Excellent stakeholder management and presentation skills, with a proven ability to help clients understand and unlock value from their data.
• Passion for solving real-world business problems using data and data-driven approaches.
• Good foundation in data engineering, which involve building and maintaining data pipelines for efficient data movement and transformation.
• Knowledge of modern Data architecture Pattern including Data Lake, Datawarehouse, Data Mesh
• Architectural and/or engineering knowledge of one or more of the following Data and AI Platforms: Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Snowflake.
• Architectural and/or feature knowledge of one or more of the following Programming Languages/Packages: Python, Java, Scala, Spark, SQL, NoSQL databases.
• Experience working within Agile delivery methodologies.
• Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
• Experience of proposition building and delivery.
• Certification in at least data architecture, data engineering, or data management space.
• Currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a Consulting background Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
• Experience of proposition building and delivery.
• SC Cleared or SC eligible

What You'll Love About Working Here?

No matter the project or customer, your work will have a meaningful impact on society, businesses and lives. It’s really rewarding. And it’s also really varied. You’ll potentially work on a huge variety of projects (some larger than others), so you could gain lots of experience in a short amount of time.

We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work UK’ accolade for 4 consecutive years, to see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page

Get The Future You Want

Your wellbeing
You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2023. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Shape your path
You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

We really believe in creating a partnership with our customers. Using our Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE), you’ll get to know the customer’s needs and challenges, demo innovative solutions and quickly solve problems. It’ll help you discover unexpected answers together.

Need To Know

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

CSR:

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

About Capgemini Invent

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

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Posted on 15 May 2025

Experience level Experienced Professionals

Contract type Permanent

Location London

Business unit INVENT

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