Data Architect
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Job description
The Data Architect / Migration Consultant will serve as the technical owner of the data foundation layer. This role is responsible for end-to-end data architecture, identity design, ingestion engineering, and historical migration to support an enterprise-grade marketing ecosystem anchored on AWS. The architect ensures data is discoverable, trusted, governed, stitched, activated, and production-ready, supporting advanced segmentation, personalisation, and analytics use cases across digital estate.
The role demands strong depth in AWS data engineering, data modelling, XDM/identity design, migration frameworks, and MarTech activation patterns, along with hands-on leadership in defining standards, enforcing data quality, and guiding distributed engineering teams. 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
- Own and evolve the MarTech data foundation across customer, behavioural, transactional, and marketing datasets.
- Drive end-to-end data discovery across systems of record, archives, batch/stream providers, and consuming platforms.
- Build and maintain a comprehensive inventory of all data sources required for CDP and marketing activation use cases.
- Design scalable XDM schemas and implement a complete identity architecture with stitching and merge policies.
- Architect AWS-native ingestion pipelines for batch, streaming, validation, lineage, and reconciliation.
- Integrate activation destinations while ensuring security, governance, compliance, and data-ready exports.
- Lead historical and delta data migration with full traceability, checkpoints, and production-cutover readiness.
- Define and operationalize data quality, observability, monitoring, and runbooks with measurable KPIs.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Solution architecture?, * 10+ years in data architecture, engineering, or solution architecture.
- Deep expertise with AWS data services (S3, Glue, Kinesis, Redshift, EMR, Lambda, Lake Formation).
- Strong background in MarTech/CDP ecosystems, identity design, and activation frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with historical migrations, delta loads, and streaming ingestion.
- Proficiency in schema modelling, profiling, lineage, mapping, and MDM-style identity strategies.
- Strong understanding of data governance, security, compliance, and regulated environments.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration across marketing, analytics, engineering, and compliance teams.
- Bonus: Exposure to AEP/RTCDP/Marketo, consent management, and AI/ML for identity or anomaly detection.
Benefits & conditions
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.
About the company
Capgemini ist einer der weltweit führenden Anbieter von Management- und IT-Beratung, Technologie-Services und Digitaler Transformation. Als ein Wegbereiter für Innovation unterstützt das Unternehmen seine Kunden bei deren komplexen Herausforderungen rund um Cloud, Digital und Plattformen.