Principal Data Architect
Location: Hybrid. Poland / Doha, Qatar (1 year relocation) | Practice Area: Data & Analytics
Please note: We are considering Poland / Qatar based candidates.
The Role
Capco is a global technology and business consultancy, focused on the financial services and energy sectors. We combine innovative thinking with deep industry expertise to help our clients solve complex business and technology challenges.
We are looking for 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.
You will work closely with business and technology stakeholders to translate requirements into practical architectural solutions, establish common standards, and guide engineering teams through implementation.
What You'll Do
- 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.
What We’re Looking For
- 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.
Why Join Capco
- Deliver high-impact transformation programmes for leading financial services and enterprise clients.
- Work in a collaborative, entrepreneurial consulting culture where your ideas are valued.
- Access continuous learning, professional certifications, and career development opportunities.
- Collaborate with experienced consultants and technology specialists on complex business challenges.
- Help shape the future of digital transformation through innovative, client-focused solutions.
Inclusion at Capco
We're committed to making our recruitment process accessible and straightforward for everyone. If you need any adjustments at any stage, just let us know - we'll be happy to help. We value each person's unique perspective and contribution. At Capco, we believe that being yourself is your greatest strength. Our #BeYourselfAtWork culture encourages individuality and collaboration - a mindset that shapes how we work with clients and each other every day
ONLINE RECRUITMENT PROCESS STEPS
- Screening call with the Recruiter
- Hiring Manager Technical Interview
- Client Interview
- Feedback/Offer
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Skills Required
- Extensive experience in enterprise data architecture within financial services
- Strong knowledge of modern data platforms and cloud data architectures
- Experience designing data integration solutions and ETL/ELT pipelines
- Experience designing 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 and evaluating technical risks and dependencies
- Experience guiding cross-functional engineering teams
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, documentation, and presentation skills
- Experience engaging with senior technical stakeholders and architecture governance forums
- Availability for hybrid work in Poland or Doha, Qatar, including one-year relocation
What the Team is Saying
Capco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health insurance is described as comprehensive with multiple plan options and generally low copays, and mental-health support and EAP resources reinforce this strength.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, holidays, and sick leave are often highlighted as generous, with flexible time-off arrangements supporting work-life balance.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is characterized as generous, and family-planning benefits such as fertility, adoption assistance, childcare support, and coverage for family members are emphasized.
Capco Insights
What We Do
Capco, a Wipro company, is a global management and technology consultancy specializing in driving transformation in the energy and financial services industries. Capco operates at the intersection of business and technology by combining innovative thinking with unrivalled industry knowledge to fast-track digital initiatives for banking and payments, capital markets, wealth and asset management, insurance, and the energy sector. Capco’s cutting edge ingenuity is brought to life through its award-winning Be Yourself At Work culture and diverse talent. TRUSTED ADVISORS - Our collaborative and entrepreneurial approach position us as trusted long-term partners to our clients. DEEP EXPERTISE - Clients look to us for clear guidance, proven expertise, and the support they need to set their companies up for success. DISRUPTIVE SOLUTIONS- We do not provide off -the-shelf answers to clients’ challenges. Instead, we work in close collaboration to understand the issues, and craft disruptive, bespoke solutions. ACCOUNTABILITY AND OWNERSHIP - We recognize every client has distinct needs and expectations, and we take ownership and accountability for the solutions we design, build, and deliver.
Why Work With Us
We support and encourage an inclusive culture, entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. Capco is not about organizational charts and rigid hierarchies – we want all employees to feel that Capco is their firm to own and run. We believe diversity powers innovation. Be Yourself At Work (#BYAW) is an integral and underlying part of our culture
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