Azure Fabric Architect - Birmingham

Azure Fabric Architect - Birmingham

Reference Code: -en_GBContract Type:PermanentProfessional Communities: Architecture

Who You'll Be Working With

As a Data Solution Architect at Capgemini, you will design and lead the delivery of modern data platforms that enable analytics, AI, GenAI, and data driven decision making at scale. You will translate business strategy into robust, governed, and AI ready architectures, taking end to end ownership from vision through to delivery and value realisation

You will be part of the Data Platforms team that is part of the Insights and Data Global Practice that has seen strong growth and continued success across a variety of projects and sectors. 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 on using the latest frameworks, reference architectures and technologies using AWS, Azure and GCP along with various data platforms like Databricks and Snowflake

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.

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

The Focus Of Your Role

As a Solution Architect with an Azure Data Factory (ADF) and Microsoft Fabric focus, you will be an integral part of our team dedicated to building scalable, secure, and well-governed data platforms. You will leverage your expertise in ADF, Fabric (Lakehouse, Warehouse, and Real-Time Analytics), and the wider Azure data ecosystem to design, develop, and implement modern data architectures and pipelines that fuel analytics, AI/ML, and data-driven operations.

• Design and build high-performance data integration solutions: Use Azure Data Factory (and/or Fabric Data Factory) to orchestrate ingestion, transformation, and movement of data across on-premises and cloud sources into Azure services.
• Design and oversee the delivery of secure lakehouse and warehouse architectures: Implement logical and physical data models, data quality controls, and governance practices using Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse/Warehouse), Purview, and Azure security controls to ensure trusted data.
• Ability to design, build and deploy AI/ML-enabled solutions: Enable feature-ready, governed datasets for data science and integrate with Azure Machine Learning and Fabric experiences to operationalise models and drive business insights.
• Design, monitor and optimise data pipelines and platform performance: Use Fabric capacity management, pipeline monitoring, logging, and operational best practices to improve reliability, throughput, cost, and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work closely with business analysts, data engineers, data scientists, and platform/DevOps teams to implement secure CI/CD, environment management, and a scalable Fabric workspace and governance model.
• Stay ahead of the curve: Continuously learn and adapt to the evolving Microsoft data platform landscape, including ADF, Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Purview, and related best practices.
• Support governance and metadata management: Implement data discovery, classification, lineage, and stewardship practices using Microsoft Purview and aligned standards for trusted, auditable data products.
• Own security architecture for data platforms: Design identity, access, and secrets management (e.g., Entra ID RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault) and apply network and monitoring controls appropriate for sensitive public sector workloads.
• Embed engineering excellence: Define CI/CD and release management for ADF/Fabric, including Git integration, branching strategies, automated testing, and repeatable environment provisioning using Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Bicep/Terraform).
• Drive FinOps and capacity planning: Shape Microsoft Fabric capacity strategy, workload isolation, usage monitoring, and cost optimisation to balance performance, resilience, and value.
• Lead migration and modernisation: Assess legacy estates and design pragmatic roadmaps to modern Azure/Fabric architectures, including transition planning, delivery governance, and risk management.
• Support delivery leadership and pre-sales: Contribute to proposals, solution shaping, estimations, and delivery plans, and provide technical leadership across multi-supplier teams.

What You'll Bring

You 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, including designing, developing and implementing solutions on the Microsoft data platform (Azure Data Factory and/or Microsoft Fabric).
• Proven expertise in data integration and analytics platforms, including Azure Data Factory, Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse/Warehouse), and strong understanding of data warehousing, dimensional modelling, and lakehouse concepts.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure cloud platform, including Azure Data Lake Storage/ADLS Gen2, Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, Workspaces, Capacity), Azure Synapse and/or SQL, and Azure Data Factory.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills and strong communication and teamwork skills.
• Passion for data and a thirst for learning; either already a Microsoft Fabric advocate or working towards deep capability in Fabric and ADF.
• Relevant Microsoft certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect, Data Engineer, and/or Microsoft Fabric certifications).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code for Azure data platforms (e.g., Git-based workflows for ADF/Fabric, automated deployments, and Bicep/Terraform).

Additional Information

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 well 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 Capgeminis 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 were 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 thats 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.