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Position Description
At CGI, we help clients unlock the full value of their data to drive better decisions, trusted insight, and meaningful business outcomes. As a Data Architect, you will play a pivotal role in helping our clients turn data strategy into secure, scalable, and outcome-focused data solutions that support better decisions, trusted insight, and modern data platform delivery. As a Data Architect, you will work across our core data offerings, connecting early-stage advisory and architecture alignment with scalable platform design, decision-led insight, and delivery leadership. You will help shape how clients access, process, govern, and use data, ensuring architectures are practical, secure, adaptable, and aligned to measurable business value.
CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK 'Best Employer' by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you'll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We'll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.
Due to the secure nature of the programme, you will need to hold UK Security Clearance or be eligible to go through this clearance. This is a hybrid position.
Your Future Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead the design of data architectures across platforms, integration, data models, pipelines, security, and operational readiness.
- Translate client strategy, business use cases, and data and analytics needs into architecture blueprints, roadmaps, and delivery-ready designs.
- Shape scalable data platform solutions, including cloud data warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, reusable platform patterns, and data mesh or data fabric principles where appropriate.
- Define architecture patterns that support trusted data pipelines, reporting, self-service analytics, near real-time insight, and AI/ML workloads.
- Embed data governance, privacy, security, resilience, performance, automation, and cost effectiveness into solutions from the outset.
- Lead architecture activity across discovery, design, and delivery, working closely with client stakeholders to align solutions to business outcomes, enterprise standards, and delivery constraints.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor in client conversations, workshops, and architecture reviews, clearly explaining architecture choices and the value they enable.
- Mentor delivery teams and contribute to reusable data architecture patterns, accelerators, and delivery approaches that improve quality and consistency across engagements.
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Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role
To succeed in this role, you will bring proven experience delivering enterprise-scale data architecture in large, complex organisations, ideally in regulated environments. You will be confident defining data principles, standards, and architecture patterns, communicating clearly with senior stakeholders, and managing multiple priorities.
- Strong understanding of modern data platforms and governance approaches, including cloud services, data lifecycle management, master data, analytical platforms, and tooling such as Azure, Databricks, Unity Catalog, and Microsoft Purview.
- Experience working across the wider enterprise architecture landscape, including reference models, architecture repositories, reusable building blocks, integration patterns, and technology roadmaps.
- Ability to design secure and scalable data exchange patterns, including API-led, middleware, and messaging-based integration.
- Awareness of relevant data, messaging, and industry standards such as ISO 20022, SWIFT, FIX, XML, XBRL, SDMX, or FIBO, where applicable.
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Life at CGI
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect, and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because...
- You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction.
- Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
- You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
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