Senior Data Platform Architect - Hybrid & AWS

Capgemini; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Training & certifications

Health & life insurance

Referral program

Job summary

Capgemini Engineering seeks a senior data architecture professional to define target data platform architectures, establish robust standards, and guide the group through stabilisation and scaling of pilot initiatives. The role emphasizes governance, industrialisation, and knowledge transfer across teams.

You will contribute to implementation roadmaps, ensure alignment with cloud migration strategies, and engage stakeholders with strong communication and planning skills in a hybrid work setup.

Qualifications

• Strong, proven experience in cloud data platform architecture, ideally on AWS.
• Strong experience in 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.
• Solid familiarity with lakehouse and medallion architecture patterns, in particular architectures built on Apache Iceberg and S3 tables.
• A track record of designing for governance, standardisation, scalability and industrialisation.
• The ability to produce target architectures, standards and blueprints, and to contribute to implementation roadmap definition.
• Client- and business-oriented, with strong planning and organisation skills.
• Rigorous and process-focused, with excellent written and verbal communication.
• 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 the architectural principles, standards and blueprints that make it technically robust and operationally sustainable.
• Review the current pilot architecture and provide clear recommendations for completion, stabilisation and scaling across the group.
• Drive industrialisation, governance and standardisation, actively reducing over-complexity and limiting duplicated processing.
• Support the implementation lead with architectural decision-making and contribute to the definition and sequencing of the implementation roadmap.
• Enable internal teams through structured knowledge transfer.

Skills

Cloud data platform architecture

AWS

Data platform architecture

Lakehouse architecture

Medallion architecture

Governance & standardisation

Architecture roadmaps

Hybrid advisory model

Client & business orientation

Communication skills

Tools

Apache Iceberg

S3 data stores

Job description

Capgemini Engineering seeks a senior data architecture professional to define target data platform architectures, establish robust standards, and guide the group through stabilisation and scaling of pilot initiatives. The role emphasizes governance, industrialisation, and knowledge transfer across teams.

You will contribute to implementation roadmaps, ensure alignment with cloud migration strategies, and engage stakeholders with strong communication and planning skills in a hybrid work setup.