Data Architect - London, UK - Fulltime

Capgemini; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a Data Architect to shape enterprise data architectures for Financial Services clients. You will design scalable, secure, and cloud-enabled data platforms, leading end-to-end data lake and distributed data solutions.

The role involves reviewing artefacts, guiding the data factory, and collaborating with stakeholders across the business. You will work in Capgemini's Integration & Data practice, with a hybrid model blending Capgemini offices, client sites, and home.

Qualifications

• Must have extensive experience designing solutions for large-scale distributed data projects.
• Experience with Cloudera CDH/CDP on AWS and on-prem environments.
• Strong programming background in Java, Python, or Scala.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end data lake and distributed data solutions to meet business needs.
• Lead delivery from a data design perspective within Banks EDL and ODS platforms on Cloudera in AWS.
• Produce design artefacts and review them with the factory team.

Skills

Data architecture

Cloudera CDH/CDP

Distributed data platforms

Java/Python/Scala

ETL pipelines

Airflow/NiFi

Kafka/Spark/Cassandra/HBase

Cloud and on-prem

Tools

Airflow

NiFi

Kafka

Spark

Job description

About the Job you are considering:

Join Capgemini's Integration & Data (I&D) practice, where we Consult with Purpose, Continuously Evolve, and Architect Tomorrow. As a Data Architect, you will play a strategic role in shaping and delivering enterprise data architectures for our Financial Services clients. You will lead the design of scalable, secure, and cloud-enabled data platforms that empower organisations to harness data as a critical business asset.

Hybrid working:

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role:

• Accountable for delivering effective solution designs within the Banks EDL and ODS Platforms on Cloudera in AWS taking the lead on the delivery from an data design perspective
• Design end-to-end data lake and distributed data solutions to meet business needs within the context of a broader solution implementation
• Contributor to overall solution planning providing input into the factory estimation process as well as highlighting technical risks issues and assumptions
• Review design artefacts from other data solution architects within the factory team
• Define and derive best practices in the data space adopting industry best practices and highlighting areas within the data factory that require remediation from a technology or process perspective
• Produce required design artefacts independently or as part of a team
• Work with the business and programmes to help refine their data requirements
• Present to the Banks Architecture Review Board when necessary
• Engage with key stakeholders in the Group Data Office and across the business
• Provide support to and engage with nonfactory solution architects on change initiatives
• Ensure solutions align with strategic architecture principles and direction
• Review the designs produced by the technical teams to ensure alignment with the overall solution design
• Support the delivery lead to break down the solution so that it can be delivered iteratively in sprints
• Support other engineering functions within the factory including mapping build test and release
• Review requirements and monitor change requests to ensure that the solution design is fit for purpose

Your Skills:

• Highly experienced solution architect in designing solutions for largescale distributed data projects and programmes working in complex multivendor change delivery organisations
• Deep distributed data platform knowledge and experience particularly on the Cloudera CDHCDP Platform or similar technology on both OnPrem and Cloud
• Experience with processing large datasets as well as streaming data and unstructured data sources including Cassandra HBase Kafka and Spark
• Strong ETL and data pipeline experience particularly with modern big data toolsets such as Airflow and Nifi or equivalent
• Strong programming background in either Java Python or Scala
• Experience in modern engineering practices and technologies
• Good working knowledge of data architecture principles
• Continuous improvement and innovative mindset
• Financial services experience would be advantageous
• Broad experience in complex enterprise IT estates with an ability to add value to
• projects and programmes quickly
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to take a lead role and take ownership of complex data deliveries
• API Exposure
• Integration
• Streaming
• Change Data Capture

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. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will 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'd be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. 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.
• 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.
• You will be joining one of the World's Most Ethical Companies, as recognised by Ethisphere for 13 consecutive years. We live...

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'll 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, together, we seek out opportunities that will 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 every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you'll build the skills you want. You'll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might 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 organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

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