CAPGEMINI INVENT

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 today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

YOUR ROLE

The focus of your role, as a Digital Solution Architect Senior Manager, will be guiding our clients through technology enabled transformation, influencing and realising their business strategy. You will be responsible for identifying and implementing innovative solutions, particularly AI solutions, to achieve clients’ business objectives.

Often both the delivery approach (customer-centric and agile) and technical solutions need to be proven and will require you to demonstrate leadership and collaborativeness to guide our clients to their outcomes. Your work will include team leadership and personal contributions to design and deliver end-to-end solutions.

You will contribute to Capgemini’s expanding roster of AI solutions for architecture and the further development of AI skills amongst out established team members.

AI-Enabled Architecture

You will increasingly design solutions that incorporate AI and automation capabilities. This includes:

Identifying opportunities to adopt AI into new or existing digital services
Leading AI solution design using modern patterns such as retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), multi-agent orchestration, vector search, prompt chaining, and model fine‑tuning.
Demonstrating hands-on ability to assess technical feasibility of AI concepts through rapid prototyping, MVPs, cloud-native AI services, or open-source models.
Explaining the limitations, risks and trade‑offs of AI models and designing mitigation strategies such as grounding, evaluation frameworks, guardrails and system prompts.
Supporting clients to understand the business value of AI capabilities and the organisational, data and process changes required for successful adoption.

A significant 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.

Senior Managers in Invent contribute to our business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

Business Development – Leading proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events. You will be required to deliver new bookings of £1m per annum.
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

Must have experience of delivering Digital Solutions on one or more cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP). 
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. 
Experience with AI either through AI tools to assist Architecture or Architecture for AI
Ability to communicate complex AI concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, grounding explanations in business value and real-world risk.
Understanding of cloud-native AI services (e.g., Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Gemini) and how they integrate with enterprise services, security patterns and APIs.
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 
Ability to define, mobilise and lead managed architecture services
Understanding of the current and future technology trends. You must have worked in delivering digital applications or services, DevOps and waterfall environments before and know the challenges to bring the best of old and new world 
Ability to develop our 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 Business 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 350,000 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 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.