About the Job you are considering:
Join the Financial Services Business Unit within Capgemini’s Cloud & Custom Applications (C&CA) practice as a Data Architect, where you will consult with purpose to shape enterprise data strategies and architect future-ready solutions. You will play a pivotal role in designing scalable, secure, and insight-driven data ecosystems that enable business transformation. Working across multidisciplinary teams, you will guide organisations in evolving their data capabilities, embedding AI awareness, and accelerating value delivery. This role is ideal for a strategic thinker who thrives in complex environments and is passionate about continuously evolving architecture to meet tomorrow’s needs.
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:
- Define and shape end-to-end data architecture that enables scalable, insight-driven business outcomes
- Translate high-level architecture into fit-for-purpose solution designs aligned to enterprise principles
- Contribute to the continuous evolution of global architecture frameworks and standards
- Govern solutions to ensure alignment with strategic architecture, driving consistency and quality across programmes
- Partner with business and engineering teams to refine requirements and ensure clarity of solution direction
- Communicate architectural decisions, trade-offs, risks, and impacts to diverse stakeholders
- Enable delivery teams to succeed by providing guidance on design, structure, and best practice
- Support the development of future-ready data capabilities, embedding AI awareness and innovation mindset
- Navigate complex, large-scale programmes, ensuring cohesion across distributed teams and stakeholders
Your Skills:
- Strong background in data architecture, including data storage, transformation, event processing, APIs, and security principles
- Experience designing and delivering analytics-driven solutions in enterprise environments
- Proven ability to think conceptually and logically, abstracting complexity into clear architectural direction
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience resolving complex challenges
- Ability to communicate and influence effectively across both technical and business audiences
- Experience working within large, complex, and geographically distributed programmes
- Understanding of AI/ML concepts and their role in modern data ecosystems (without being a specialist)
- Cloud platform experience relevant to enterprise data solution delivery
Good-to-Have Skills
- Microsoft Fabric
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Exposure to modern data platforms, analytics frameworks, and cloud-native architectures
- Familiarity with governance frameworks and architectural review processes
- Relevant cloud or data architecture certifications
'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 our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all 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’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 organisations 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 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 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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