Data Architect Fulltime

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About the Job you are considering:

Join Capgemini’s Integration & Data (I&D) practice, where we Consult with Purpose, Continuously Evolve, and Architect Tomorrow. As a Data Architect, you will play a strategic role in shaping and delivering enterprise data architectures for our Financial Services clients. You will lead the design of scalable, secure, and cloud-enabled data platforms that empower organisations to harness data as a critical business asset.

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:

• Accountable for delivering effective solution designs within the Banks EDL and ODS Platforms on Cloudera in AWS taking the lead on the delivery from an data design perspective
• Design end-to-end data lake and distributed data solutions to meet business needs within the context of a broader solution implementation
• Contributor to overall solution planning providing input into the factory estimation process as well as highlighting technical risks issues and assumptions
• Review design artefacts from other data solution architects within the factory team
• Define and derive best practices in the data space adopting industry best practices and highlighting areas within the data factory that require remediation from a technology or process perspective
• Produce required design artefacts independently or as part of a team
• Work with the business and programmes to help refine their data requirements
• Present to the Banks Architecture Review Board when necessary
• Engage with key stakeholders in the Group Data Office and across the business
• Provide support to and engage with nonfactory solution architects on change initiatives
• Ensure solutions align with strategic architecture principles and direction
• Review the designs produced by the technical teams to ensure alignment with the overall solution design
• Support the delivery lead to break down the solution so that it can be delivered iteratively in sprints
• Support other engineering functions within the factory including mapping build test and release
• Review requirements and monitor change requests to ensure that the solution design is fit for purpose

Your Skills:

• Highly experienced solution architect in designing solutions for large scale distributed data projects and programmes working in complex multivendor change delivery organisations
• Deep distributed data platform knowledge and experience particularly on the Cloudera CDHCDP Platform or similar technology on both OnPrem and Cloud
• Experience with processing large datasets as well as streaming data and unstructured data sources including Cassandra HBase Kafka and Spark
• Strong ETL and data pipeline experience particularly with modern big data toolsets such as Airflow and Nifi or equivalent
• Strong programming background in either Java Python or Scala
• Experience in modern engineering practices and technologies
• Good working knowledge of data architecture principles
• Continuous improvement and innovative mindset
• Financial services experience would be advantageous
• Broad experience in complex enterprise IT estates with an ability to add value to
• projects and programmes quickly
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to take a lead role and take ownership of complex data deliveries
• API Exposure
• Integration
• Streaming
• Change Data Capture

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.

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