Position Description:

Company Profile:
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 94,000 consultants and professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2024 reported revenue is CA$14.68 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at cgi.com.
Job Title: Solution & Data Architecture
Position: Associate Consultant
Experience: 12+ Years
Category: Architecture
Shift: General Shift
Work Mode: Hybrid (3 days in office, 2 days WFH)
Primary location: India, Karnataka, Bangalore
CGI Office: TPLS
Position ID: J0826-1447
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Description:
The successful candidate will combine robust solution Architecture and Data Architecture expertise with a practical understanding of Data Engineering principles. Stakeholder management skills are required as collaboration with delivery teams and stakeholders across the enterprise is required to ensure scalable, secure, and business-value-driven solutions.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

Responsibilities:
Solution & Data Architecture
Manage the solution architecture of CPDH re-platforming (CPDH is data platform for contracting & procurement data)
Creating architecture artefacts as per ways of working
Define data products, information models, data flows, and integration patterns.




Design scalable data architectures supporting analytics, AI, and operational use cases.
Ensure consistent master, reference, and transactional data management principles.
Establish data governance, lineage, quality, ownership, and lifecycle practices.
Work with Data Architects and Data Engineers to ensure architecture standards are implemented effectively.
Data Platform & Engineering Alignment
Provide architecture guidance for Databricks-based solutions and modern data platforms.

Must-Have Skills:
Understand data engineering concepts including:
Data pipelines
Data lakehouse architectures
Data products
Streaming and batch processing
ETL/ELT patterns
Data observability
DataOps practices
AI & Advanced Analytics
Support architecture decisions involving AI, GenAI, and agent-based solutions.
Guide the adoption of Microsoft Foundry and Databricks-based AI capabilities.
Ensure security, governance, responsible AI, and operational considerations are embedded into solution designs.
Stakeholder Management

Good-to-Have Skills:
Experience governing architecture decisions throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Experience architecting solutions across multiple interconnected programmes or products.
Experience working with cloud-native platforms and modern data ecosystems.
Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale digital and data initiatives

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:





Education Qualification: Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field or higher with minimum 3 years of relevant experience.

Skills:

- Azure DAAS (Data As A Service)
- Azure Data Lake
- Data Architecture
- Databricks PT-AdvAzureM.Fabric
- Generative AI
- Microsoft Azure Data Factory
- Microsoft Azure Databricks
- Solutions Architecture

What you can expect from us:

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

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.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.

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