Senior Data Architect

Position Description:

At CGI, you’ll help clients modernise critical data landscapes through secure, controlled migration to the cloud. As a Senior Data Architect, you’ll shape migration strategy, define ETL approaches and ensure data quality, governance and resilience are built into every stage of delivery. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, you’ll translate complex technical needs into practical solutions that deliver measurable outcomes. This is an opportunity to take ownership of meaningful work, contribute innovative thinking and be supported by experienced colleagues in a collaborative environment where your expertise helps create lasting impact. 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 and available timescales, you must already hold active UK Security Clearance (SC) to start on the project. This is a hybrid position.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

In this role, you will play a key part in supporting the our client’s application and data migration programme by defining and developing the data migration strategy and ensuring the right standards, controls and tooling are in place ahead of production migration. You’ll work closely with the wider migration team to guide the secure movement of data and associated workloads from on-premises environments into Microsoft Azure, balancing technical quality with delivery practicality. You will also collaborate with developers, infrastructure engineers, application support teams, project managers and business leads to ensure migration activities are aligned, well designed and effectively delivered. By combining strong technical analysis with clear communication and a structured approach, you’ll help deliver reliable cloud migration outcomes that support long-term client success. Key responsibilities

• Lead & support migration architecture decisions and strategy development

• Analyse & compare migration options, including lift-and-shift and re-platforming approaches

• Define & develop secure ETL processes for controlled data migration to Azure

• Carry out & support database installation, schema creation, extraction, transformation and bulk load activities

• Produce & maintain detailed design documentation for DBA implementation

• Work closely & collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams across delivery

• Diagnose & resolve database errors, system issues and migration risks

• Ensure & embed data quality, governance, security and non-functional requirements

• Consider & advise on backups, retention, resilience and operational concerns

• Support & apply understanding of cloud, automation, APIs and DevOps integration trends

• Maintain & improve delivery quality through robust analysis and documentation

• Contribute & help align technical solutions to business and operational needs

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

You’ll bring strong experience in data architecture, cloud architecture and migration delivery, with the confidence to work across technical and business teams in a secure environment. You should be comfortable translating complex requirements into practical designs, advising on migration trade-offs and supporting delivery through to implementation. Essential qualifications

• Proven experience in data architecture or database architecture roles

• Strong understanding of data migration strategy and ETL processes

• Experience delivering or supporting migrations to Microsoft Azure

• Ability to produce detailed technical design documentation

• Strong data analysis, technical analysis and solution analysis skills

• Experience diagnosing database issues and supporting problem resolution

• Experience working with developers, infrastructure engineers and business stakeholders

• Good understanding of cloud architecture, automation, APIs and DevOps trends

• Strong communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills

• Experience supporting secure or regulated environments

Desirable qualifications

• UK Government project experience

• Experience with backups, retention and resilience planning

• Familiarity with modern cloud migration patterns and integration approaches

• Experience working across transformation programmes #LI-RJ1

Skills:

• Client management

• Cloud architecture

• Communication

• Data Architecture

• Requirements Analysis

• Solution Analysis

• Stakeholder management

• Technical Analysis

• Government

What you can expect from us:

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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.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

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