Location
London (Hybrid position)

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive salary with excellent benefits including pension, private healthcare, and a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) making you a CGI Partner, not just an employee.

About the Role
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. 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.

Your future duties and responsibilities include leading the design of data architectures across platforms, integration, data models, pipelines, security and operational readiness; translating client strategy, business use cases and data and analytics needs into architecture blueprints, roadmaps and delivery-ready designs; shaping scalable data platform solutions such as cloud data warehouses, lakes, lakehouses, reusable platform patterns, and data mesh or data fabric principles where appropriate; defining architecture patterns that support trusted data pipelines, reporting, self-service analytics, near real-time insight and AI/ML workloads; embedding data governance, privacy, security, resilience, performance, automation and cost effectiveness into solutions from the outset; leading architecture activity across discovery, design and delivery while working closely with client stakeholders to align solutions to business outcomes, enterprise standards and delivery constraints; acting as a trusted technical advisor in client conversations, workshops and architecture reviews; and mentoring delivery teams while contributing to reusable data architecture patterns, accelerators and delivery approaches that improve quality and consistency across engagements.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and named a UK 'Best Employer' by the Financial Times. 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, holding a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and be part of an open, friendly community of experts where you will be trained and supported to take 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 obtain this clearance.

Experience
Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale data architecture in large, complex organisations, ideally in regulated environments. 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.

About you
Confident in defining data principles, standards and architecture patterns. Excellent communication skills with senior stakeholders and ability to manage multiple priorities. A collaborative and trusted technical advisor who can clearly explain architecture choices and the value they enable. Motivated to mentor delivery teams and contribute to improving quality and consistency across engagements.

Qualifications
Relevant qualifications or certifications in data architecture, cloud platforms or related fields are advantageous but not explicitly required. Eligibility for UK Security Clearance is essential.