AWS Lead

Capgemini; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning for life

Wellbeing programs

Ethical workplace values

Job summary

Capgemini's Financial Services Business Unit within Cloud & Custom Applications invites applications for an AWS Lead to shape architectures that align with business goals and long-term technology roadmaps. You will guide high-level designs, enable governance, and mentor delivery teams across programmes while driving AI-enabled innovation.

The role involves a blend of office, client site, and home-working patterns; 100% remote work is not available.

Qualifications

• Experience leading solution architectures for enterprise-scale environments.
• Proven ability to deliver end-to-end initiatives from concept to deployment.
• Strong governance, design approvals, and stakeholder engagement.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Define solution architectures aligning business goals, strategy, and long-term roadmaps.
• Lead high-level designs and architecture options, enabling governance outcomes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, sustainable solutions.
• Drive architectural consistency, quality, and best practices across programmes and teams.
• Champion AI awareness and future-ready delivery approaches.

Skills

Solution architecture

End-to-end delivery

Architecture governance

SDLC & Agile

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Tools

AWS

Java

Python

TypeScript

React

Angular

REST APIs

AWS Certification

Job description

Join the Financial Services Business Unit within Capgemini's Cloud & Custom Applications (C&CA) practice as an AWS Lead. This role is ideal for a technology leader who combines strategic thinking with delivery excellence to help clients solve complex business challenges and shape future-ready solutions. As a trusted advisor, you will consult with purpose, continuously evolve architectural approaches, and architect tomorrow by creating scalable, sustainable, and business-aligned solutions. Working closely with clients, stakeholders, and delivery teams, you will drive technical direction, promote innovation, encourage responsible adoption of AI-enabled ways of working, and contribute to building a high-performing, future-ready workforce.

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.

Your Role:

• Define solution architectures that align business goals, enterprise strategy, and long-term technology roadmaps.
• Lead the creation of high-level solution designs and architecture options, enabling informed decision-making and successful governance outcomes.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into practical, scalable, and sustainable solutions.
• Drive architectural consistency, quality, and best practice across programmes and delivery teams.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, improve maintainability, and increase long-term business value.
• Promote reuse of existing capabilities, services, and data assets wherever appropriate to maximise efficiency and consistency.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to delivery teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
• Ensure successful delivery through effective planning, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and adherence to delivery standards.
• Facilitate alignment across teams and departments, helping to remove barriers and maintain delivery momentum.
• Champion AI awareness, innovation, and future-ready ways of working that enhance client outcomes and workforce capability.

Your Skills:

• Strong experience in solution architecture, software architecture, and application design for enterprise-scale environments.
• Proven ability to lead end-to-end delivery initiatives from concept through implementation and transition.
• Expertise in defining architecture principles, integration approaches, solution patterns, and design best practices.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices and Agile delivery environments.
• Demonstrated experience managing architectural governance, design approvals, and stakeholder engagement.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical thinking, and decision-making capabilities.
• Strong leadership, communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience mentoring teams and guiding technical direction across multiple workstreams.
• Ability to balance strategic objectives with practical delivery outcomes.
• Awareness of AI-enabled delivery approaches and a commitment to developing future-ready teams.

Good-to-Have Skills

• AWS Solution Architect certification or other relevant cloud certifications.
• Experience with Java, Python, TypeScript, React JS, and Angular.
• Experience designing and delivering REST API-based solutions.
• Knowledge of architecture frameworks, enterprise architecture methodologies, and modern integration patterns.
• Experience working within Financial Services or other highly regulated industries.

"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.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You’ll 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.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini's 'learning for life' mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World's Most Ethical Companies, as recognised by Ethisphere for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

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 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 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.