Overview
Data Architect – London
Reference Code: 511426-en_GB
Contract Type: Permanent
Professional Communities: Architecture
Job Title: Data Architect
Location: London
About the Job you are considering:
We are seeking a Senior Solution Architect with deep experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale big data, streaming, and real-time data integration solutions. The role is focused on solution architecture across Cloudera-based big data platforms, Kafka-based streaming applications, and real-time data integration / analytics solutions, including cloud-hosted data platforms such as Cloudera on AWS or equivalent AWS-native services. This is not a pure data modelling, reporting, analytics, or governance role. The successful candidate must have a strong architecture background and be comfortable operating across both solution design and hands-on technical delivery.
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.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end solution architecture for large-scale distributed data platforms, real-time streaming solutions, and enterprise data integration initiatives.
- Design and architect Kafka-based streaming ecosystems, including event ingestion, topic design, partitioning strategies, consumer groups, offset management, retries, dead-letter queues, replay mechanisms, scalability, and resiliency.
- Drive Spark-based data processing solutions for batch, micro-batch, and real-time workloads, ensuring optimal performance and scalability.
- Architect data platforms on Cloudera CDH/CDP and AWS, including Data Lakes, Operational Data Stores (ODS), and distributed storage systems.
- Design and implement real-time data ingestion frameworks leveraging Kafka, Spark Streaming, Flink, NiFi, and Change Data Capture (CDC) patterns.
- Define architecture patterns for data consumption and APIs using Spring Boot, Spring Kafka, Java, REST APIs, and event-driven integration approaches.
- Provide technical leadership across data ingestion, transformation, storage, streaming integration, API enablement, and downstream consumption layers.
- Review and govern technical designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, security requirements, scalability goals, and operational best practices.
- Identify technical risks, dependencies, and non-functional requirements, including performance, resiliency, observability, security, and supportability.
- Collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable, production-ready architecture solutions.
- Own architecture deliverables, including Architecture Summaries, High-Level Designs (HLDs), solution documentation, and presentations to architecture review boards.
- Promote best practices and reusable architecture patterns across Kafka, Spark, distributed data platforms, cloud services, and event-driven architectures.
Hands-on expertise in Kafka and Spark is mandatory, with proven experience delivering production-grade streaming and data processing solutions at scale.
Required Experience:
- 10+ years of overall IT experience.
- 5+ years in Solution Architecture, Technical Architecture, or Lead Design roles.
- Strong experience with Kafka, Spark, Cloudera CDH/CDP, HBase, Flink, NiFi, Hive, and Impala.
- Experience with AWS data services such as MSK, Kinesis, Event Bridge, and cloud-native data platforms.
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 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 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.
Make it real | www.capgemini.com
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