Data Architect - Azure

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The Data Platforms team is part of the Insights and Data Global Practice and has seen strong growth and continued success across a variety of projects and sectors. Cloud Data Platforms is the home of the Data Engineers, Platform Engineers, Solutions Architects and Business Analysts who are focused on driving our customers' digital and data transformation journey using the modern cloud platforms. We specialise in using the latest frameworks, reference architectures and technologies using AWS, Azure and GCP along with various data platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, Quantexa, Palantir, SAS.

Responsibilities

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• Partners with other solution architects to assess solution alignment to the overall architectural blueprint – and drive proposal writing, solution direction, pricing and costing.
  
• Owns Solution Development as liaison between Sales and Delivery teams. Serve as technical liaison between Sales team, Clients, Delivery & support teams up to and including Contract negotiations.
  
• Have experience of designing architecture for data focused Microsoft Azure projects, cooperate with sales team to formulate/excute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives.
  
• Working on Microsoft Azure PaaS and IaaS, specifically: App Services, Azure SQL Database, SQL Server, Storage, Synapse Analytics, Purview, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake. Understand which Azure data focused components to use for which purpose.
  

Our projects are varied; you may be asked to help define a client’s data visualisation transformation roadmap, or create an innovative data platform, or assist in client bid responses. Azure Architect certification is essential but other desirable skills include:

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• Knowledge of other Cloud Platforms such as AWS and GCP.
  
• Knowledge of automation tooling such as Azure DevOps to facilitate CI/CD approaches to IaC.
  
• Knowledge of IaaS implementation, Availability sets, Azure Networking concepts, Express Route, DNS, Load Balancing.
  
• Strong skills in areas such as Docker, Kubernetes, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.
  

To be successfully appointed to this role, a Security Check (SC) clearance is required. This requires continuous residence in the UK for the last 5 years with other criteria and requirements. The recruitment process will include questions about residence, nationality, and citizenship for eligibility.

You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid‑first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day‑to‑day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

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 ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

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 we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and 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.

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55‑year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end‑to‑end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

IT Services and IT Consulting

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