Data Architect

Capgemini; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology partner in the UK is looking for a skilled Data Architect specializing in the Financial Domain. This role involves owning and evolving the MarTech data foundation, architecting AWS-native ingestion pipelines, and overseeing historical and delta data migration. Ideal candidates have over 10 years of experience in data architecture and deep expertise in AWS data services. Join a company committed to innovation, ethical practices, and employee well-being.

Benefits

Training and development opportunities

Well-being support

Accredited Great Place to Work

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data architecture, engineering, or solution architecture.
• Deep expertise with AWS data services.
• Experience with historical migrations, delta loads, and streaming ingestion.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the MarTech data foundation.
• Drive end-to-end data discovery across systems.
• Architect AWS-native ingestion pipelines.
• Lead historical and delta data migration.

Skills

AWS data services (S3, Glue, Kinesis, Redshift, EMR, Lambda, Lake Formation)

Data architecture

MarTech/CDP ecosystems

Data governance

Data ingestion

Schema modelling

Collaboration across teams

Job description

Overview

Job Title

Data Architect (Financial Domain)

The Data Architect / Migration Consultant will serve as the technical owner of the data foundation layer. This role is responsible for end-to-end data architecture, identity design, ingestion engineering, and historical migration to support an enterprise-grade marketing ecosystem anchored on AWS. The architect ensures data is discoverable, trusted, governed, stitched, activated, and production-ready, supporting advanced segmentation, personalisation, and analytics use cases across digital estate.

The role demands strong depth in AWS data engineering, data modelling, XDM/identity design, migration frameworks, and MarTech activation patterns, along with hands-on leadership in defining standards, enforcing data quality, and guiding distributed engineering teams.

Your Role

• Own and evolve the MarTech data foundation across customer, behavioural, transactional, and marketing datasets.
• Drive end-to-end data discovery across systems of record, archives, batch/stream providers, and consuming platforms.
• Build and maintain a comprehensive inventory of all data sources required for CDP and marketing activation use cases.
• Design scalable XDM schemas and implement a complete identity architecture with stitching and merge policies.
• Architect AWS-native ingestion pipelines for batch, streaming, validation, lineage, and reconciliation.
• Integrate activation destinations while ensuring security, governance, compliance, and data-ready exports.
• Lead historical and delta data migration with full traceability, checkpoints, and production-cutover readiness.
• Define and operationalize data quality, observability, monitoring, and runbooks with measurable KPIs.

Your Skills

• 10+ years in data architecture, engineering, or solution architecture.
• Deep expertise with AWS data services (S3, Glue, Kinesis, Redshift, EMR, Lambda, Lake Formation).
• Strong background in MarTech/CDP ecosystems, identity design, and activation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with historical migrations, delta loads, and streaming ingestion.
• Proficiency in schema modelling, profiling, lineage, mapping, and MDM-style identity strategies.
• Strong understanding of data governance, security, compliance, and regulated environments.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration across marketing, analytics, engineering, and compliance teams.
• Bonus: Exposure to AEP/RTCDP/Marketo, consent management, and AI/ML for identity or anomaly detection.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are a Disability Confident Employer: Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government's Disability Confident scheme. We offer an interview to all candidates who declare they have a disability and meet the minimum essential criteria for the role. Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you)

• You would be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us. We have trained Mental Health Champions and wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy to support wellbeing.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress with Capgemini's learning for life mindset. You will have access to numerous training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and to 250,000 courses with certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications, and more.
• You will be joining one of the World\'s Most Ethical Companies, recognised by Ethisphere for 13 consecutive years. Working ethically is at the center of our culture, and you will help shape a future we can be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients\' businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what\'s possible. It\'s why we seek opportunities to transform the world\'s leading businesses, and it\'s how you\'ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other and always pushing yourself to do better, you\'ll build the skills you want and help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. It may not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With nearly 60 years of heritage, we are a responsible and diverse group of about 420,000 people in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with deep industry expertise and a strong partner ecosystem, leveraging capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.