Data Architect

About the Job you are considering:

We are looking for an experienced Data Architect with strong expertise in Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Delta Lake, data modelling, data governance, and cloud data architecture, along with domain experience in London Market Insurance. The candidate will be responsible for defining and delivering scalable data architecture solutions for insurance transformation programmes covering underwriting, claims, policy administration, bordereaux, delegated authority, premium processing, regulatory reporting, reinsurance, analytics, and data migration.The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on architecture experience in Azure-based data platforms and should be able to work closely with business stakeholders, enterprise architects, solution architects, data engineers, insurance SMEs, vendors, and delivery 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:

• Define end-to-end data architecture for Azure-based data platforms using Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, ADLS Gen2, Delta Lake, Azure Synapse, and Power BI.
• Design scalable and secure lakehouse architecture using bronze, silver, and gold data layers.
• Lead architecture and design for data ingestion, transformation, curation, data marts, reporting, and analytics solutions.
• Create high-level and low-level data architecture documents, data flow diagrams, integration architecture, and data platform blueprints.
• Define architecture patterns for batch, incremental, real-time, and API-based data ingestion.
• Design reusable data ingestion and transformation frameworks using ADF and Databricks.
• Define data models for London Market Insurance data including policy, claims, premium, broker, bordereaux, delegated authority, reinsurance, exposure, and regulatory reporting data.
• Work with business analysts and insurance SMEs to understand London Market business processes and translate requirements into data architecture.
• Define standards for data modelling, source-to-target mapping, data quality, reconciliation, metadata, lineage, and auditability.
• Design data governance, security, access control, and compliance frameworks for insurance data.
• Support cloud migration, data warehouse modernisation, reporting transformation, and legacy system decommissioning initiatives.

Your Skills:

• Strong experience as a Data Architect or Senior Data Architect.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Databricks.
• Strong architecture and implementation experience with Azure Data Factory.
• Strong understanding of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
• Strong experience with Delta Lake, lakehouse architecture, and medallion architecture.
• Excellent knowledge of data modelling, dimensional modelling, canonical data models, and enterprise data models.
• Strong experience in designing ETL/ELT data pipelines.
• Good understanding of PySpark, Spark SQL, Python, and SQL.
• Strong knowledge of data warehouse, data lake, data mart, and semantic layer architecture.
• Experience in defining data quality, data validation, reconciliation, audit, and exception handling frameworks.
• Experience with data governance, metadata management, data lineage, data catalogue, and data privacy controls.
• Experience with Azure security concepts including Managed Identity, Azure RBAC, Key Vault, ACLs, private endpoints, and encryption.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices using Azure DevOps, Git, ARM templates, Bicep, or Terraform.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, presentation, and documentation skills.
• Ability to lead architecture discussions with business, technology, and senior client stakeholders.
• London Market Insurance Domain Experience

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 organization. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organizational 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 ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognized 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 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. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

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