Practicing Business Architect

Capgemini Invent; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Employee wellbeing programs

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Digital Business Architect to drive transformation for clients using AI and other digital technologies. This role involves defining digital strategies, creating compelling business models, and applying Agile methodologies to enhance delivery. The ideal candidate should have experience in business architecture, engage effectively with technical teams, and contribute to both client and internal growth initiatives. A flexible approach to location is required, with opportunities across various UK offices.

Qualifications

• Experience in consulting or industry roles related to business architecture.
• Wider capability in service design and process improvement.
• Experience analyzing AI impacts on business processes.

Responsibilities

• Define clients' digital strategies and build business cases.
• Create solution blueprints and operating models.
• Utilize Agile methodologies for structured delivery.
• Develop customer value propositions and business models.
• Cultivate relationships with teams and senior leadership.

Skills

Business architecture experience

Technology-enabled rethinking

Experience with AI use cases

Engagement with technical teams

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

Our Digital Business Architects put people at the heart of our work driving better business outcomes with and for our clients. We shape this future, as talented Architects delivering leading‑edge digital solutions for our clients, combining a clear understanding of business value and a consultative approach to make the difference, considering the transformative potential of ethical AI to reshape the modern world in every engagement. We embed sustainability in everything we do, acting as a force multiplier and walking the talk on the path to net zero. Invent Digital Business Architects thrive on the intersection of consulting and architecture, being equally comfortable pitching value propositions as they are creating business capability maps.

Working with leading architects, technology consultants and business sector experts, you will be instrumental in 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 Digital Business Architects sit within the Digital Architecture guild, part of the Business Technology practice in 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.

In this role you will play a key role in:

• Help clients define their digital strategy and build the business case for investing in ground‑breaking AI and other digital technologies
• Define compelling customer value propositions and winning business models for the digital era, then creating and documenting solution blueprints, roadmaps, capability models, or operating models.
• Applying Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) to structure delivery teams around value chains and create features and epics.
• Applying Design Thinking to develop personas, define pain points, define MVPs and prototypes, and designing experiments to test solution hypotheses.
• Cultivate strong relationships among working teams and build enduring relationships with senior leadership, and work closely with SMEs to ensure design feasibility, viability, and compliance.
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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

Key skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Business architecture experience in consulting or industry (Business/Enterprise Architect, Senior Business Analyst, Product Owner, Product Manager) using recognised methods and frameworks.
• Wider experience and capability in technology‑enabled rethinking / reengineering of business models (service design, organisational change, business strategy, financial analysis, process improvement such as Lean / Six Sigma).
• Demonstrable experience in holistic analysis of AI use cases within project scoping and/or delivery, including the impact on people, processes, data, and sustainability
• Ability to understand and engage with technical teams on highly complex technology and data projects: you won’t be designing a technology stack, and you do need to understand the implications of the stack for the rest of the solution elements while maintaining a laser focus on the business value we’re delivering through this technology.

Additionally, we ask that you:

• Are currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a Consulting background or proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
• Have experience of proposition building and delivery.
• Are eligible for SC‑level clearance, or previously/currently held
• Have experience in Business development, utilising a combination of the organisation’s broader pre‑existing relationships, company relationships and your own network to support account sales strategy and wider business development activities within Capgemini.

What You’ll Love About Working Here

Our consultants are formally trained by industry experts in consulting and client delivery; examples include Agile delivery (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Scaled Agile Framework), technologies (AWS, Azure), Cybersecurity (CISSP, CISM), and TOGAF, which Capgemini’s own IAF contributes to. Capgemini Invent offers you the flexibility to develop various areas of knowledge in specialist domains aligned both to your interests and our clients’ outcomes. Client engagements give you the opportunity to work with our leadership as well as our early‑ and mid‑career professionals in teams where diverse thought and experience are valued. You’ll create compelling client propositions, structure and lead high‑profile transformations, and gain hands‑on exposure to leading technologies, often taking an idea from a concept to a vision, to strategy and then execution. You’ll build and lead teams on client and internal work, with right‑shored colleagues of all grades, to get the best results for client, consultant, and company. Les Fontaines: Capgemini Invent has a unique training environment just outside Paris, where we can immerse ourselves in thought‑leadership, share knowledge and build capabilities that will help us and our clients to succeed. We hold monthly showcases of our digital transformation initiatives, sharing knowledge and showing off how the power of technology is impacting our clients. We have thriving Invent communities in our three main Invent locations of London, Manchester, and Glasgow holding monthly F2F get‑togethers. We have active virtual team meetings every fortnight, as well as access to BT, Invent, and Capgemini UK groups through MS Teams as well as expanding our connections to our local Capgemini offices.

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.

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.

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.