Managing Consultant - Cloud Architect

Capgemini Invent; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini Invent is seeking a Cloud Architect to be the technical anchor on cloud strategy and transformation engagements, shaping architecture and telling the story behind the technology.

You will lead current-state assessments, design landing zones, and migration paths across AWS, Azure and GCP in multi-cloud and hybrid environments, while balancing cost, risk and performance. The role also covers AI-ready architecture and translating complex tech into business language for stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Hands-on architecture with AWS, Azure or GCP and professional certifications desirable.
• Broad infrastructure, networking, security and data with cloud migration expertise.
• Consulting-architect combination: communicate, run workshops and present to senior levels.
• Experience designing for AI and data workloads or interest in generative/agentic AI architectures.
• Experience in consulting or client-facing roles in a matrixed organisation.
• TOGAF or equivalent architecture frameworks are nice to have.

Responsibilities

• Architecture leadership: lead current-state assessments, design target architectures, landing zones and migration paths across AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Workload placement and modernization: define workload placement strategies and modernization patterns.
• AI-ready architecture: design data platforms, GenAI and agentic AI patterns and underpin them with solid infrastructure choices.
• From architecture to narrative: translate technical choices into business language and run client workshops.
• Solution assurance and bids: assure solutions and contribute to proposals, bids and propositions.
• As a Managing Consultant: lead the technical agenda, coach others and shape/new business.
• As a Senior Consultant: own the architecture workstream and deliver high-quality artifacts.

Skills

Cloud architecture

AWS/Azure/GCP

Infrastructure security

Consulting skills

AI workloads

Stakeholder management

TOGAF

Job description

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 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

As a Cloud Architect at Capgemini Invent, you will be the technical anchor on our cloud strategy and transformation engagements – an architect first, with the consulting skills to shape strategy and tell the story behind the technology.

In this role you will play a key role in:

Architecture leadership: Leading current-state assessments and designing target architectures, landing zones and migration paths across AWS, Azure and GCP, including complex multi‑cloud and hybrid environments.

Workload placement and modernisation: Defining workload placement strategies and application modernisation patterns – from rehost through to re‑platform and refactor – balancing cost, risk, performance and sovereignty.

AI‑ready architecture: Designing the platforms that make AI possible – data platforms, GenAI and agentic AI patterns, and the infrastructure choices that underpin them.

From architecture to narrative: Translating technical choices into business language – facilitating client workshops and presenting architectural recommendations so they can be understood, funded and sold back into the business.

Solution assurance and bids: Assuring solutions through delivery and bringing technical depth and credibility to proposals, bids and proposition development.

As a Managing Consultant: lead the technical agenda across engagements, assure solutions, coach others, and contribute to shaping and winning new work.

As a Senior Consultant: own the architecture workstream on an engagement, producing high‑quality technical deliverables and building trusted client relationships.

Role

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

Skills

You're an architect at heart with the communication skills of a consultant. We're looking for individuals with experience in some of the following areas:

• Hands‑on architecture experience with at least one of AWS, Azure or GCP – professional‑level certifications (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect) are highly desirable.
• Breadth across infrastructure, networking, security and data, with depth in cloud migration and application modernisation patterns.
• The consulting‑architect combination: technical credibility paired with the communication skills to whiteboard, run workshops and present with impact at senior levels.
• Experience designing for AI and data workloads – or a demonstrable interest in generative and agentic AI architectures – is highly desirable.
• Experience in consulting or client‑facing roles, with the ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation.
• TOGAF or equivalent architecture frameworks are nice to have.
• Experience working with external stakeholders with the ability to build trusted relationships.

What You'll Love About Working Here

No matter the project or customer, your work will have a meaningful impact on society, businesses and lives. It’s really rewarding. And it’s also really varied. You’ll potentially work on a huge variety of projects (some larger than others), so you could gain lots of experience in a short amount of time.

Client engagements give you the opportunity to work with our leadership and experienced consulting management, where you can learn from them, challenge them and accelerate your hands‑on experience, delivery capability and industry insights. There are many opportunities like monthly team drinks to connect face‑to‑face with the wider team over a few drinks in the city. There are regular leadership connect sessions that will give you a different, more relaxed setting to meet up in the office to hear from the leadership, meet colleagues and discuss the trends and insights within the market. Team days are always a chance to connect with the team, have fun and learn something new.

We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work UK’ accolade for 4 consecutive years, to see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page.

Need To Know

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion 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