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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior AI Data Engineer - **Company:** Capgemini Sogeti - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Data Validation, Data Discovery, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Integrity, Data Systems, Data Warehousing, Database Queries, Dimensional Modeling, Information Retrieval, Python (Programming Language), Metadata, Meta-Data Management, Cloud Services, Search Technologies, Unstructured Data, Enterprise Data Management, Data Ingestion, Sql Optimization, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Generative AI, Data Layers, Data Management, Virtual Agents, Data Pipelines - **Published:** September 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=19448d9a797469bc ## About the Role * Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale data engineering solutions and modern data platforms. * Strong expertise in building scalable data ingestion, transformation, and processing frameworks for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. * Deep understanding of data warehousing, dimensional modelling, semantic modelling, metadata management, and data governance principles. * Advanced SQL skills with experience optimising complex queries and designing high-performance analytical data solutions. * Strong Python development experience for data engineering, automation, and data platform development. * Experience developing cloud-native data architectures and implementing scalable, secure, and resilient data solutions. * Strong understanding of data quality, data validation, observability, monitoring, and data reliability engineering practices. * Experience designing and implementing enterprise semantic layers, business metrics, data cataloguing, and metadata-driven architectures. * Hands-on experience delivering Generative AI-powered data solutions, including Retrieval-ugmented Generation (RAG), AI-assisted data discovery, and enterprise knowledge retrieval. * Experience developing AI-enabled applications that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to interact with enterprise data. * Knowledge of vector search concepts, embeddings, semantic retrieval, and contextual information access patterns. * Experience designing intelligent agents capable of data discovery, query generation, information retrieval, and workflow automation. * Strong understanding of enterprise data security, governance, compliance, and responsible AI principles. * Ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable data and AI solutions that deliver measurable business value. * Excellent stakeholder management, communication, collaboration, and consulting skills. * Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with a continuous improvement mindset. * Passion for AI innovation and building future-ready data capabilities within enterprise organisations. 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. ## Description * Design and deliver scalable, secure, and reliable data platforms that enable trusted access to enterprise information and support advanced analytics and AI-driven business outcomes. * Build and optimise enterprise data pipelines that transform complex data into high-quality, consumable assets for analytics, reporting, and intelligent applications. * Establish robust data quality, governance, monitoring, and validation practices to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of business-critical data. * Develop reusable data products, frameworks, and services that improve engineering efficiency and accelerate the delivery of data and AI initiatives. * Design and maintain enterprise semantic models that create a consistent understanding of business metrics, entities, and relationships across the organisation. * Enable self-service analytics and natural language access to data by developing semantic frameworks that simplify data discovery and improve business accessibility. * Leverage Generative AI to enhance data engineering processes, automate metadata generation, accelerate data modelling activities, and improve operational efficiency. * Design and deliver AI-powered data solutions that enable intelligent information retrieval, contextual data discovery, and conversational access to enterprise knowledge. * Collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, data professionals, and AI practitioners to translate business challenges into scalable, value-driven solutions. * Promote engineering excellence, continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and the adoption of AI-fluent ways of working to build future-ready data capabilities. ## Related Videos - [Why Your AI Agent Keeps Hallucinating Your Data: Building Deterministic Context Layers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2055-why-your-ai-agent-keeps-hallucinating-your-data-building-deterministic-context-layers) - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [A Data Mesh needs Open Metadata](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/505-a-data-mesh-needs-open-metadata) - [Beyond GPT: Building Unified GenAI Platforms for the Enterprise of Tomorrow](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1525-beyond-gpt-building-unified-genai-platforms-for-the-enterprise-of-tomorrow) - [Data: The Deciding Factor in AI Success](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100310-data-the-deciding-factor-in-ai-success) - [The Data Mesh as the end of the Datalake as we know it](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/156-the-data-mesh-as-the-end-of-the-datalake-as-we-know-it) ## Related Articles - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Got AI ideas but no money? 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