At a glance
- Location
- Middle East - Doha
About the role
- Capco is seeking an experienced Data Architect to lead the design and evolution of enterprise data architectures across complex transformation programmes.
- The role combines strategic architecture, modern data platform expertise, and technical governance to deliver scalable, secure, and future-ready data solutions.
Responsibilities
- Define target-state architectures, data models, domain structures, and integration patterns, ensuring alignment with business objectives, enterprise standards, and non-functional requirements.
- Design scalable data platforms and solutions leveraging technologies (including but not limited to Snowflake, dbt, and cloud-native services), with a focus on performance, security, resilience, and cost efficiency.
- Architect modular, microservices-based solutions incorporating REST APIs, API gateways, and modern data ingestion and integration patterns.
- Establish and promote consistent data modelling, naming conventions, semantic definitions, and data management standards to support interoperability, discoverability, and reuse.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams to translate business and technical requirements into architecture designs, assess source-system integration feasibility, and validate proposed solutions.
- Lead technical design reviews, assess architectural decisions, dependencies, and risks, and provide practical recommendations to maintain consistency and minimise implementation rework.
- Facilitate architecture discussions, prepare technical documentation and presentations, communicate design decisions, and contribute to architecture governance forums.
- Provide architectural guidance to delivery teams, ensuring solutions adhere to agreed standards, design principles, and implementation best practices.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in enterprise data architecture within the financial services.
- Strong knowledge of modern data platforms and cloud data architectures.
- Experience designing data integration solutions, ETL/ELT pipelines, microservices architectures, REST APIs, and API gateway integrations.
- Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, data security, and architectural standards.
- Experience conducting solution design reviews, evaluating technical risks and dependencies, and guiding cross-functional engineering teams.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, documentation, and presentation skills, including experience engaging with senior technical stakeholders and architecture governance forums.
Benefits
- Competitive, people-first benefits package designed to support every aspect of your life
- Continuous learning, professional certifications, and career development opportunities
Skills
- Snowflake
- Dbt
- REST APIs
- ETL/ELT
