Consultant / Senior Consultant - Digital Solution Architect (London/Manchester/Glasgow)

At Capgemini Invent, we help our clients to embrace innovation and transformation to get the future they want.

By combining strategy, technology, data science, and creative design expertise with an inventive mindset, we partner with our clients to innovate and transform their business, helping them navigate today, while plotting a course for the future.

About Capgemini Invent

As the digital innovation, design and transformation brand of the Capgemini Group, Capgemini Invent enables CxOs to envision and shape the future of their businesses. Located in more than 36 offices and 37 creative studios around the world, it comprises a 10,000+ strong team of strategists, data scientists, product and experience designers, brand experts and technologists who develop new digital services, products, experiences and business models for sustainable growth.

Capgemini Invent is an integral part of Capgemini, a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2021 global revenues of €18 billion

Our brand promise “Get The Future You Want” reflects our passion for people and technology and highlights the company’s commitment to inclusion and sustainability. 
An important aspect of ‘Get the Future You Want’ is to balance hybrid ways of working between your Capgemini office, home, and client location (where applicable).  We recognise that it is an imperative to create flexibility so you can enjoy an optimal work-life balance and feel empowered to achieve success.  When you come onboard, or before, please discuss this with your manager so you can agree the best ways of working for your role, team, and client.

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Who you'll be working with

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. 

The focus of your role

The focus of your role, as a digital solution architect, will be on working in a product design or development team to architect the solutions for our clients. You will work on new or existing IT services that needs innovative solutions and potentially radical transformation to provide the digital offerings expected by the customers. Often both the delivery approach (customer-centric and agile) and technical solutions need to be proven and will require clear leadership to work collaboratively with our clients to achieve their outcome. Your work will include the design of the end-to-end solution, mapping the underlying capabilities needed to build the solution, to ensure the solution meets the required architecture standards, patterns or blue-prints and to provide the necessary technical support to the scrum teams and product design team to develop the solution.  

An additional aspect of your role will be to prove the value of new propositions and solutions to our clients through prototyping, technical feasibility assessment and piloting. Working with cloud-based solutions to quickly implement MVPs or Spikes to prove the value of specific aspects of a solution to our clients. You will need to have hands-on experience to effectively work with UX and Service Designers and developers to design and implement solution and support rapid iterative development. 

What you'll bring

• Must have experience of delivering Digital Solutions on one or more cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP). Ideally as a Solution/Technical Architect or Lead Developer looking to move into an Architecture Role. 
• Comfortable working in an Agile Environment balancing time-to-value and iterative delivery with governance and control processes. 
• Experience and knowledge to quickly build and test applications, try out cloud native services, work alongside UX/UI or front end developers to build a prototype without hesitation 
• A good understanding of Cloud Services and Solution Components covering PaaS, SaaS, ServerLess Computing and Micro-service based solution. 
• Ability to communicate on a Business and Technical level bringing solutions to life for a range of stakeholders. 
• Ability to design an end to end solution that is cost effective, increases digital footprint, increases completion rates of a transaction, understand user centric design, meets business KPIs and user satisfaction 
• Understanding of the current and future technology trends. You must have worked in delivering digital applications or services, DevOps and waterfall environments before and knows the challenges to bring the best of old and new world 

What we offer

Capgemini Invent UK is a winner at the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Awards for the 3rd year running, placing in the top 20 employers in its list of the Best Places to Work in 2023. We offer a cultural environment for architects to learn, to take ownership and contribute to business growth. 

• Our consultants are formally trained from industry experts on management consulting and client delivery.  Examples of these include Agile delivery (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Scaled Agile Framework) and technologies (AWS, Azure) and Cyber security (CISSP, CISM) 

• Client engagements give you the opportunity to work with our leadership and experienced consulting management, where you can learn from them, challenge them and accelerate your hands-on experience, delivery capability and industry insights.  

• You’ll learn how we write compelling client propositions, structure and lead high-profile transformation, and gain hands-on exposure to leading technologies, often taking an idea from a concept to a vision, to strategy and then execution 

• We hold monthly showcases of our digital transformation initiatives, sharing knowledge and showing off how the power of technology is impacting our clients. 

• There are monthly team drinks, and it’s a chance to connect face-to-face with the wider team over a few drinks in the city. The monthly team breakfasts give you a different, more relaxed setting to meet up in the office on Fridays to hear from the leadership, meet colleagues and discuss the trends and insights within the market. Team away days are always a chance to connect with the team, have fun and learn something new – sometimes even pizza-making or shuffle boarding 

The work:

No matter the project or customer, your work will have a meaningful impact on society, businesses and lives. It’s really rewarding. And it’s also really varied. You’ll potentially work on a huge variety of projects (some larger than others), so you could gain lots of experience in a short amount of time.

Collaboration and Innovation:

We really believe in creating a partnership with our customers. Using our Accelerated Solutions Environment (ASE), you’ll get to know the customer’s needs and challenges, demo innovative solutions and quickly solve problems. It’ll help you discover unexpected answers together.

Diversity:

Capgemini positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. We are committed to hiring, developing and retaining the best people to deliver innovative, world-class solutions for our clients.  We foster an inclusive culture that enables everyone to achieve their full potential and enjoy a fulfilling career with us. Our comprehensive flexible benefits package and lifestyle policies enable our employees to balance their individual, family and work-life needs.

Learning and development:
There’s an endless amount to learn at Capgemini, and an endless number of ways to do so. So, you’ll also have unique training opportunities to take advantage of. Some of our consultants even have the chance to go to Les Fontaine (near Paris, France), where we host a conference. Outside of dedicated training, everyone makes time to help and support one another - collaboration is encouraged across all of our teams.

Work/Life Harmony:
We understand that everyone has varied lives and we want you to have a great work-life balance.  So, where possible, our Work Life Harmony policy will help you to work flexibly and juggle your work and home life.

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 a 9th year.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.

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.

In order to commence a role with Capgemini UK plc you will be required to provide documentary proof prior to joining the Company that you are entitled to live and work in the UK.

More information is at available at: https://www.capgemini.com/gb-en/service/invent/