Senior Data Solution Architect – Azure & Databricks

CAPGEMINI; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Learning & development

Flexible working

Job summary

Capgemini is seeking a senior Data Solution Architect with a strong Azure and Databricks focus to design secure, scalable data platforms for analytics, AI and agentic systems. You will own architecture from vision through delivery, including lakehouse and data-warehouse design, governance, and trusted AI patterns.

You will shape solutions and proposals with sales and delivery teams, acting as the technical authority translating client goals into deliverable, well-costed designs.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years of experience as a Data Architect with cloud data solutions.
• Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead data platform architecture: design cloud-native data platforms and modernisation strategies.
• Design lakehouse architectures unifying data lakes and warehouses.
• Define AI-native reference architectures, retrieval and vector search patterns.
• Own data governance and trust with lineage, access controls and audits.
• Provide technical pre-sales leadership: shape proposals, costing and estimates.
• Set standards and optimise designs for performance, cost and scalability.
• Mentor data engineers, scientists, DevOps and analysts.

Skills

Data architecture

Azure

Databricks

AI/ML patterns

Governance

Pre-sales

Cloud data platforms

Tools

Spark

Unity Catalog

Purview

Job description

Capgemini is seeking a senior Data Solution Architect with a strong Azure and Databricks focus to design secure, scalable data platforms for analytics, AI and agentic systems. You will own architecture from vision through delivery, including lakehouse and data-warehouse design, governance, and trusted AI patterns.

You will shape solutions and proposals with sales and delivery teams, acting as the technical authority translating client goals into deliverable, well-costed designs.