Data Architect
Glasgow, Glasgow City Area, G1, Scotland, UK
Listed on 2026-02-14
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IT/Tech
Data Engineer, Cloud Computing
About the Job you are considering:
We are seeking a highly skilled Data Architect to design optimise and govern the organisations data ecosystem across cloud and onprem environments The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in data modelling data integration data governance and scalable data platform design enabling end to end data lifecycle management that supports business transformation and advanced analytics
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 implement enterprise wide data architecture frameworks reference architectures and design patterns
- Develop conceptual logical and physical data models for complex systems and cross functional business domains
- Establish standards for data storage data pipelines metadata management lineage and quality
- Data Engineering Integration
- Architect robust and scalable ETL pipelines across cloud hybrid and onprem platforms
- Oversee integration of structured semi-structured and unstructured data from multiple sources
- Collaborate with engineering teams to optimise data lakes data warehouses and analytics platforms
- Cloud Data Platforms
- Lead the design and implementation of cloud native data systems eg AWS
- Define best practices for data ingestion storage compute orchestration and security across cloud services
- Optimise performance and cost efficiency of large scale data workloads
- Data Governance Security
- Implement data governance frameworks including data cataloguing data stewardship and quality controls
- Ensure compliance with information security privacy and regulatory standards eg GDPR PCI DSS ISO
- Establish policies for data retention classification access control and lifecycle management
- Stakeholder Management Collaboration
- Work closely with business product analytics engineering and architecture teams to align data strategies
- Translate business requirements into scalable and high performing technical architecture
- Provide architectural leadership mentoring and direction to engineering teams
Skills:
- Strong expertise in data modelling ER dimensional canonical metadata and master data management
- Experience with data platforms such as Databricks Big Query Redshift Synapse
- Handson experience with SQL Python and distributed data processing frameworks Spark Kafka
- Deep understanding of data warehousing lakehouse architectures and event driven architectures
- Experience designing cloud native solutions using
- AWS S3 Glue Redshift Lambda RDS Dynamo
DB Step Functions - Knowledge of API integrations microservices and data streaming solutions
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 think tanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Manage Mentor, 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…
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