Senior Cloud Data Architect - Hybrid & Lakehouse Leadership

Capgemini Engineering; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Health and life insurance

Referral program with bonuses

Great office locations

Training and certifications

Job summary

Capgemini Engineering is seeking an experienced Data Platform Architect to define target architectures, standards and roadmaps for a scalable cloud data platform. You will review pilots, drive standardisation, and support implementation with structured knowledge transfer across the group.

The role emphasizes governance, lakehouse patterns, and propagation of architectural excellence, with an emphasis on hybrid advisory + delivery and regular on-site work in Geneva.

Qualifications

• Strong, proven experience in cloud data platform architecture, ideally on AWS.
• Experience with data platform and database architecture, including enterprise-scale data platform design.
• Experience with migration-oriented target architecture design, aligned to a broader cloud migration strategy.
• Familiarity with lakehouse and medallion architecture patterns, incl. Apache Iceberg and S3 tables.
• Track record of governance, standardisation, scalability and industrialisation.
• Ability to produce target architectures, standards and blueprints, and contribute to implementation roadmaps.
• Client- and business-oriented with strong planning and organisation skills.
• Able to operate in a hybrid advisory + delivery model with regular on-site presence in Geneva.

Responsibilities

• Define the target data platform architecture and produce architectural principles, standards and blueprints.
• Review the current pilot architecture and provide recommendations for completion, stabilisation and scaling.
• Drive industrialisation, governance and standardisation, reducing complexity and duplication.
• Support the implementation lead with architectural decisions and roadmap sequencing.
• Enable internal teams through structured knowledge transfer as a mandatory outcome.

Skills

Cloud data platform architecture

AWS

Data platform design

Migration architecture

Lakehouse architecture

Governance & standardisation

Architecture blueprints

Implementation roadmaps

Stakeholder communication

Hybrid advisory delivery

Job description

Capgemini Engineering is seeking an experienced Data Platform Architect to define target architectures, standards and roadmaps for a scalable cloud data platform. You will review pilots, drive standardisation, and support implementation with structured knowledge transfer across the group.

The role emphasizes governance, lakehouse patterns, and propagation of architectural excellence, with an emphasis on hybrid advisory + delivery and regular on-site work in Geneva.