AWS Solutions Architect Lead — Hybrid FinServ Cloud Leader

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

Job summary

Capgemini UK is seeking an AWS Solution Architect within the Cloud & Custom Applications practice. You will lead architecture design, stakeholder engagement, and delivery of complex digital solutions for enterprise clients, driving measurable business outcomes.

This hybrid role blends Capgemini offices, client sites, and home-based work, with a focus on AI-enabled innovation and modern architecture patterns to reduce risk and complexity.

Qualifications

• Experience leading architecture decisions from concept through implementation and operational adoption.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and delivery of complex business solutions, ensuring alignment with client objectives and enterprise strategy.
• Create high-quality solution and architecture designs that translate business requirements into scalable and sustainable outcomes.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, delivery teams, and external partners to drive successful programme delivery.
• Design integrations and end-to-end solution approaches that support business growth, resilience, and operational efficiency.
• Promote architectural best practices, governance standards, and consistent delivery excellence across programmes.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, improve maintainability, and enable future business capabilities.
• Maximise reuse of existing services, assets, and data capabilities where appropriate to accelerate delivery and reduce risk.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to delivery teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
• Proactively manage delivery risks, dependencies, and issues while maintaining transparency with stakeholders.
• Champion AI-fluent ways of working and contribute to developing a future-ready workforce across teams and client engagements.

Skills

Solution architecture

Technical leadership

End-to-end delivery

API-led integration

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Architecture patterns

Business value delivery

Cloud & distributed systems

Insurance & London Market knowledge

Tools

AWS

Apigee

PostgreSQL

Jira

Confluence

Spring Boot

Node.js

TypeScript

Python

REST API

Job description

Capgemini UK is seeking an AWS Solution Architect within the Cloud & Custom Applications practice. You will lead architecture design, stakeholder engagement, and delivery of complex digital solutions for enterprise clients, driving measurable business outcomes.

This hybrid role blends Capgemini offices, client sites, and home-based work, with a focus on AI-enabled innovation and modern architecture patterns to reduce risk and complexity.