Digital Solution Architect- Senior Manager

Capgemini; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Digital Solution Architect to design and implement innovative digital solutions for clients. This role involves collaborating in product teams, guiding rapid iterative development, and mentoring future architects. The ideal candidate has experience with cloud platforms and a strong understanding of digital transformation processes. Emphasizing agile methodologies, this position offers flexible working arrangements and a focus on employee well-being.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Employee wellbeing programs

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience delivering Digital Solutions on cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Comfortable in an Agile environment, balancing time-to-value.
• Ability to design cost-effective, user-centric solutions and meet business KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Architect solutions for clients in product design or development teams.
• Prototyping and technical feasibility assessments for new propositions.
• Support rapid iterative development with UX and service designers.

Skills

Delivering Digital Solutions on cloud platforms

Agile Environment

Building and testing applications

Understanding of Cloud Services

Business and Technical communication

Designing end-to-end cost-effective solutions

Understanding technology trends

Mentoring and coaching digital architects

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

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 of 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, 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. As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• 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.
• 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 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 business outcomes with and for our clients. As part of shaping this future, we use talented Architects to deliver leading‑edge digital solutions for our clients, combining a clear understanding of business value and a consultative approach to make the difference. Working with leading architects, technology consultants and business sector experts, you will be at the heart of delivering profitable outcomes in business‑and technology‑oriented environments, helping a broad range of private‑and public‑sector clients to achieve their strategic goals. Our ERP Architects are part of Digital Architecture in the Business Technology practice of Capgemini Invent. We are a dynamic community that values growth, professional development and the ability to make a real difference. We work in diverse multi‑disciplinary teams, hand‑in‑glove with our clients.

Our ERP Architects play a pivotal role in realising clients' business outcomes. They are at the forefront of transforming clients' "Digital Core", catalysing their transformation to adaptive, autonomous businesses realising the potential of the 4th Industrial Revolution.

You will collaborate with

• Capgemini UK's community of over 1000 architects, contributing to the UK practice and gaining the prestigious Capgemini Architecture Certification
• Capgemini Invent's Strategy and Operating Model practitioners aligning ERP architectures with business objectives
• s Digital Factory and Cloud practitioners realising delivery of architected solutions
• Capgemini's UK and global ERP communities, contributing to advancement of assets and vendor relationships and developing new propositions through the collaboration of our consulting and technology capabilities

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.