Capgemini

Practicing Solution Architect

Capgemini
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8 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead the architecture and delivery of complex business solutions aligned with client objectives and enterprise strategy.
  • Create solution and architecture designs that translate business requirements into scalable and sustainable outcomes.
  • Design API-led, integration-focused, and event-driven solutions, including end-to-end integrations.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders, delivery teams, external partners, and clients to support successful programme delivery.
  • Promote architectural best practices, governance standards, reuse, maintainability, and reduced technical debt.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to multidisciplinary delivery teams.
  • Manage delivery risks, dependencies, and issues while maintaining stakeholder transparency.
  • Champion AI-fluent ways of working and contribute to future-ready workforce development.

Requirements

  • Strong experience in solution architecture, technical design, and software delivery across complex enterprise environments.
  • Proven ability to lead architecture decisions from concept through implementation and operational adoption.
  • Experience managing end-to-end project and delivery lifecycles in client-facing environments.
  • Strong technical leadership, stakeholder management, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
  • Understanding of modern software engineering principles, architecture patterns, and integration approaches.
  • AWS services experience with Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, and DynamoDB is desirable.
  • Node.js, TypeScript, Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Apigee, REST API, and Python experience is desirable.
  • Experience with enterprise transformation and cloud modernisation initiatives is desirable.
  • Insurance sector experience, particularly Commercial Insurance or the London Market, is advantageous.
  • AWS, architecture, cloud, security, IAF, industry, or TOGAF 9 certifications are advantageous; Capgemini Architects certification level 1 or 2 is preferred.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working across company offices, client sites, and home, with no 100% remote arrangement.
  • Wellbeing support including trained Mental Health Champions and Thrive and Peppy wellbeing apps.
  • Training and development opportunities including thinktanks, hackathons, 250,000 courses, and external certifications.
  • Access to learning and certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Manage Mentor, and cybersecurity programmes.
  • Inclusive recruitment support through Capgemini’s Disability Confident Employer commitment.

Tech Stack

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Solutions Engineering
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About Capgemini

10,000+ employees

Capgemini is a global IT services and consulting firm that delivers strategy, cloud, AI, software engineering, and managed services to large enterprises and public-sector clients. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Paris, it is publicly traded on Euronext Paris and operates in 50+ countries. The group expanded its engineering capabilities by acquiring Altran in 2020, now operating as Capgemini Engineering.

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