Solution Architect - Managing Consultant / Senior Manager - #1671470

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

YOUR ROLE

As a Digital Solution Architect, your primary focus will be working within a product design or development team to architect solutions for our clients. You will handle new or existing IT services that require innovative solutions and potentially radical transformations to meet customer expectations for digital offerings.

Key Responsibilities

• Solution Design: Architect end-to-end solutions, mapping the underlying capabilities needed to build them.
• Standards Compliance: Ensure solutions meet required architecture standards, patterns, or blueprints.
• Technical Support: Provide necessary technical support to scrum teams and the product design team for solution development.
• Leadership: Offer clear leadership to work collaboratively with clients, proving both delivery approaches (customer-centric and agile) and technical solutions.
  
  

Additional Responsibilities

• Prototyping and Piloting: Demonstrate the value of new propositions and solutions through prototyping, technical feasibility assessments, and piloting.
• Cloud-Based Solutions: Implement MVPs or Spikes using cloud-based solutions to prove specific aspects of a solution's value to clients.
• Hands-On Experience: Collaborate effectively with UX and Service Designers and developers to design, implement, and support rapid iterative development.
  
  

Role

As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.

Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.

Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

YOUR PROFILE

Requirements

• Cloud Platform Experience: Must have experience delivering digital solutions on one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Agile Environment: Comfortable working in an Agile environment, balancing time-to-value and iterative delivery with governance and control processes.
• Application Development: Experience and knowledge to quickly build and test applications, try out cloud-native services, and work alongside UX/UI or front-end developers to build prototypes without hesitation.
• Cloud Services Understanding: A good understanding of cloud services and solution components, including PaaS, SaaS, serverless computing, and microservice-based solutions.
• Communication Skills: Ability to communicate on both business and technical levels, bringing solutions to life for a range of stakeholders.
• Solution Design: Ability to design end-to-end solutions that are cost-effective, increase digital footprint, improve transaction completion rates, understand user-centric design, and meet business KPIs and user satisfaction.
• Technology Trends: Understanding of current and future technology trends. Must have experience delivering digital applications or services in both DevOps and waterfall environments, and know the challenges of integrating old and new technologies.
• Leadership and Development: Ability to develop the next generation of digital architects through formal line management and informal mentoring, coaching, and learning development.
  
  

WHAT YOU’LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE?

Our Digital Architects are the architects of positive futures and are at the heart of driving better outcomes with and for our clients. As part of shaping this future we use talented Solution Architects to deliver leading-edge digital solutions for our clients, combining a hands-on technology back-ground with a clear understanding of the business value and a consultative approach to make the difference.

Working with leading digital architects, technology consultants and business experts you will be at the heart of delivering profitable outcomes in business and technology-oriented environments with a broad range of private- and public-sector clients to achieve their strategic goals.  Our Solution Architects sit within the Digital Architecture tribe, which is part of the Future of Technology practice within Capgemini Invent. We are a dynamic community who value growth, professional development and the ability to make a real difference. We aim to work in diverse multi-disciplinary teams, hand-in-glove with our clients.

NEED TO KNOW

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. 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.

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

CSR

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.