About the job you’re considering

As Engagement Director, you will operate at the pinnacle of Capgemini’s Public Business Unit—a trusted leader shaping the future of data led public sector transformation.

You will lead major client engagements, accountable for large scale programmes where data, analytics, and AI are central to improving decision making, operational efficiency, and citizen outcomes across critical national services.

This is a senior leadership role with real national impact. You will partner directly with executive stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor on data strategy, analytics transformation, and the responsible use of data and AI at scale.

If you are ready to make a lasting mark—delivering transformation at scale, growing the business, and building trusted relationships at the highest levels—this is your opportunity. Join us and help define what excellence looks like for the UK public sector.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time. For this role it is expected that you will work from the London, Telford or Worthing office 3 days per week.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)

Your role

Client Engagement & Relationship Management: Act as the primary point of contact for senior stakeholders, building trusted advisor relationships focussed on data led outcomes, insight driven decision making, and long term capability development. ensuring satisfaction across all touchpoints. This senior leadership role is responsible for driving company-wide impact by leading multiple teams and strategic initiatives, aligning strategies with organisational priorities and client value creation.

Programme Delivery: Lead the delivery of complex, data centric transformation programmes, ensuring they meet client objectives, are delivered on time and within budget, and are aligned with Capgemini’s quality standards.

Data and Analytics Strategy: Provide senior leadership on data strategy, analytics roadmaps, and governance, translating complex data challenges into actionable, value driven solutions aligned to priorities.

Strategic Growth: Drive business development activities, across the practice and the wider public sector identifying and leading opportunities focused on data, analytics, AI, and insight led transformation. leading proposals and bids, and growing consulting revenues through both existing and new client relationships

Governance & Risk: Oversee engagement governance, proactively manage delivery, commercial, and data related risks. Champion ethical, responsible, and compliant use of data and AI, aligned to public sector expectations and regulatory requirementsand ensure compliance with all regulatory and contractual obligations, particularly those relevant to public sector delivery.

Leadership / People Management: The role requires a distinguished leader with a proven reputation for demonstrating advanced leadership dimensions and behaviours. The successful candidate will lead large, complex, cross-functional teams or major business functions, typically managing senior leaders and directors.

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your skills and experience

Delivery Excellence - Your track record in leading complex, high-value engagements (£15m–£30m+ transformation programmes) underpinned by sound commercial judgement and proactive risk management. You are accountable for delivery outcomes, financial performance, and client confidence across multi year programmes.
Data & Analytics Transformation Leadership - You have senior level leadership experience delivering large scale data and analytics transformation programmes, ideally within complex or regulated environments. This includes experience across data platforms, analytics, reporting, and insight, and may extend to advanced analytics, AI, and automation.
You understand data not simply as a technology capability, but as a strategic asset—enabling better policy decisions, operational effectiveness, fraud detection, compliance, and citizen services at scale.
Programme, Service & Operating Model Leadership - You will have significant experience in programme, service and/or transition management, leading complex, multi supplier environments where data platforms and analytics capabilities are core to business transformation. You are comfortable managing interdependencies between data, technology, policy, and operational change.
Digital & Technology Acumen - You are a digital transformation leader with strong understanding of modern data architectures and analytics ecosystems, including data platforms, integration, cloud, governance, and insight delivery. You are fluent in both agile and waterfall delivery approaches and know how to balance pace, risk, and regulatory compliance in large public sector programmes.
Sector Knowledge - You’re a true public sector insider, with deep expertise in operating models, regulatory landscapes, and the unique demands of organisations like HMRC. You anticipate change, navigate complexity, and bring insight that shapes strategy at the highest level.

Essential

Senior leadership experience delivering large scale data, analytics, or insight led transformation programmes
Strong commercial and P&L accountability at programme or account level
Experience leading complex engagements in public sector or highly regulated environments
Ability to engage credibly with executive and senior civil service stakeholders on data driven strategy

Desirable Skills

Experience leading public sector engagements, ideally in large government departments.
Strong understanding of government procurement processes and frameworks.
Eligible for UK Security Clearance
Relevant certifications (e.g. project/programme management, agile, Agile@Scale, SAFE, cloud, security, data).

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme.

As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

Declare they have a disability, and
Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role

Please opt in during the application process.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.

To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

Make it real – what does it mean for you?

Your wellbeing
You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. 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, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Impactful Experiences
You will reimagine what’s possible: creating value for the world’s leading organisations through technology to build a sustainable, more inclusive future. You will work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions, which will make a real impact across the UK.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

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