Choose a partner with intimate knowledge of your industry and first-hand experience of defining its future.Your locationYour locationIndustriesChoose a partner with intimate knowledge of your industry and first-hand experience of defining its future.# Databricks Data Solution ArchitectBirmingham, Bristol, London, Manchester, Newcastle Bank House**Please Note:**Security Clearance: **To be successfully appointed to this role, must be eligible to obtain Security Check (SC)clearance.** To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.## **The Focus Of Your Role**As a Solution Architect with a Databricks focus, you will be an integral part of our team dedicated to building scalable and secure data platforms. You will combine deep Databricks and Apache Spark expertise with strong client engagement skills to shape solutions from early-stage opportunity through delivery. You will lead our Databricks partnership activity, helping develop joint propositions, enablement, and go-to-market plans, and you will support pre-sales by contributing to discovery, solution design, estimates, and compelling client-facing materials.* Design and build high-performance data platforms: Utilize Databricks and Apache Spark to extract, transform, and load data across cloud and on-premises sources and targets.* Design and oversee the delivery of secure data warehouses and data lakehouses: Implement data models, data quality checks, and governance practices to ensure reliable and accurate data.* Ability to design, build and deploy AI/ML models: Integrate Machine Learning into data pipelines and leverage Databricks capabilities to develop predictive models and drive business insights.* Design, Monitor and optimize data pipelines and infrastructure: Analyze performance metrics, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations for efficiency and scalability.* Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work closely with business analysts, data scientists, and DevOps engineers to ensure successful data platform implementations.* Stay ahead of the curve: Continuously learn and adapt to the evolving landscape of big data technologies and best practices.* Lead the Databricks partnership: Own the day-to-day relationship, coordinate joint account planning, support enablement and certifications, and contribute to joint propositions and go-to-market activity.* Support pre-sales activity: Lead/assist discovery workshops, define solution options and reference architectures, contribute to estimates and delivery approaches, and help produce high-quality proposals and presentations.* Be a Databricks champion or on the pathway to become oneYou will bring deep experience delivering data platforms and data architecture within complex public sector environments, with a strong understanding of government operating models, regulatory obligations, and the need for trusted, mission critical data. You will have a proven ability to design secure, scalable, and well governed data foundations that support analytics, AI, and GenAI while meeting requirements for data protection, sovereignty, transparency, and auditability. You will be comfortable working with senior stakeholders to translate outcomes into pragmatic data and AI architectures, balancing innovation with risk management. You will bring strong leadership and collaboration skills, enabling multi supplier delivery teams to align around shared standards, reuse platforms effectively, and build sustainable data capabilities that deliver long term value for citizens and public services.**Experience:*** Minimum 7+ years of experience as a Data Architect with experience in designing, developing and implementing Databricks solutions* Proven expertise in Databricks, Apache Spark, and data platforms with a strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and practices.* Experience designing and delivering data platforms on at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure and/or GCP preferred).* Experience working in pre-sales roles, including shaping opportunities, producing estimates, and contributing to proposals and client presentations.* Experience leading or contributing to vendor alliances/partnerships (ideally Databricks), including joint proposition development and go-to-market activity.* Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills and strong communication and teamwork skills.* Passion for data and a thirst for learning and is either already a Databricks champion or working towards it* Relevant architecture certifications from Databricks and/or cloud providers.**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.If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)**What we’ll offer you**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 Manage Mentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.**Why we’re different**At Capgemini, we help organisations across the world become more agile, more competitive, and more successful. Smart, tailored, often ground-breaking technical solutions to complex problems are the norm. But so, too, is a culture that’s as collaborative as it is forward thinking. Working closely with each other, and with our clients, we get under the skin of businesses and to the heart of their goals. You will too. Capgemini is proud to represent nearly 130 nationalities and its cultural diversity. Our holistic definition of diversity extends beyond gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, race, age, and religion. Capgemini views diversity as everything that makes us who we are as an organization, including our social background, our experiences in life and work, our communication styles and even our personality. These dimensions contribute to the type of diversity we value the most: diversity of thought.
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