Senior Data Architect

Job Description - Grade Specific

At Capgemini Engineering, the world leader in engineering services, we bring together a global team of engineers, scientists, and architects to help the world’s most innovative companies unleash their potential. From autonomous cars to life-saving robots, our digital and software technology experts think outside the box as they provide unique R&D and engineering services across all industries. Join us for a career full of opportunities. Where you can make a difference. Where no two days are the same.

YOUR ROLE

• • 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 (“double run”).
• • 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, which is a mandatory outcome of the workstream.
• What you will deliver
• • A validated target data lake architecture for the workstream.
• • An architecture review of the current pilot, with recommendations for completion and scaling.
• • Architecture standards and blueprints that support industrialisation and reuse.
• • An architectural contribution to the overall implementation roadmap.
• • Technical stakeholder support and knowledge-transfer materials.

YOUR PROFILE

• • 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.

WHAT YOU´LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE

Join a multicultural and inclusive team environment.

Enjoy a supportive atmosphere promoting work life balance.

Hybrid work.

Your career growth is central to our mission. Our array of career growth programs and diverse professionals are crafted to support you in exploring a world of opportunities.

Access valuable training and certifications in cutting edge technologies.

Engage in exciting national and international projects.

Health and life insurance.

Referral program with bonuses for talent recommendations.

Great office locations.

ABOUT CAPGEMINI

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations 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.