18 days ago
Manchester, United Kingdom +3 moreSenior
Responsibilities
- Embed within client environments to design and build bespoke AI and agentic solutions.
- Own technical architecture from discovery and stakeholder workshops through production deployment.
- Develop backend, frontend, and infrastructure components and harden prototypes into scalable, secure production systems.
- Build evaluation frameworks and implement observability for model and system behavior.
- Present architecture, trade-offs, and roadmaps to director-level and C-suite stakeholders.
- Set engineering standards, unblock complex technical issues, and mentor engineers.
- Contribute to commercial scoping, proposal work, RFPs, client pitches, and engagement structuring.
- Define reusable agentic delivery patterns and contribute to recruitment, capability development, and thought leadership.
Requirements
- Significant experience as a senior or principal software engineer or architect owning production systems end to end.
- Client-facing or customer-facing experience in consulting, professional services, or startup environments.
- Experience working with CTO, VP Engineering, and director-level stakeholders, including leading workshops and presenting technical strategy.
- Deep backend development experience with production microservices, ideally using Python or TypeScript.
- Strong frontend experience with React and TypeScript, including frameworks such as Next.js or Vite.
- Hands-on experience designing and deploying agentic architectures using LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, or the Anthropic Agent SDK, including tool use, MCP servers, and multi-agent orchestration.
- Production experience with LLM providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Mistral, or Llama.
- Strong proficiency with AWS, Azure, or GCP and experience designing for scale, security, and cost.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Docker Compose.
- Proficiency with Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Experience with evaluation-driven development and LLM observability tools such as Langsmith, Langfuse, or Braintrust.
- Experience owning CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.
- Experience with vector databases including ChromaDB, Pinecone, PGVector, Qdrant, or MongoDB Vector Search.
- Familiarity with MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases.
- Commercial awareness and the ability to reason about effort, scope, value, and pricing.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and confidence presenting technical positions to senior stakeholders.
- Experience working in agile teams and operating independently at client sites.
- Eligibility for SC Security Check clearance is beneficial, and active SC clearance is an additional advantage.
Benefits
- Hybrid working and flexible working arrangements are available to UK employees.
- Office bases are available in London, Manchester, or Glasgow, with flexibility required for client assignment locations and periods away from home at short notice.
- Training and certifications are available across cybersecurity, cloud technologies, Agile delivery, and other technical domains.
- Access to Capgemini Invent’s Les Fontaines training and thought-leadership environment outside Paris.
- Exposure to high-profile digital transformations and leading technologies.
- Monthly showcases, team drinks, breakfasts, and team away days.
- Wellbeing support includes Mental Health Champions and wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
- Flexible benefits options and a variable performance-dependent element are included in the remuneration package.
Tech Stack
AWSAzureDockerGitHub ActionsGitLab CI/CDGoogle Cloud PlatformJenkinsKubernetesMongoDBNext.jsPostgreSQLPythonReactTerraformTypeScript
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Capgemini
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.