Senior Consultant- Solution Architect

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangements

Training and development opportunities

Employee wellbeing programs

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm is seeking a Senior Consultant - Solution Architect in London. The role involves architecting digital solutions, working in product design teams, and driving transformation for clients. Candidates should have experience with cloud platforms and agile environments. The position promotes personal growth through business development activities. Employee wellbeing and a positive work-life balance are prioritized, with supportive hybrid working arrangements.

Qualifications

• 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.
• A good understanding of Cloud Services and Solution Components covering PaaS, SaaS, ServerLess Computing.

Responsibilities

• Architect solutions for clients in product design or development teams.
• Work collaboratively to achieve client outcomes.
• Contribute to business development and personal growth activities.

Skills

Delivering Digital Solutions on cloud platforms

Agile Environment

Cloud Services understanding

UX/UI collaboration

User-centric design

DevOps and waterfall experience

Job description

Choose a partner with intimate knowledge of your industry and first-hand experience of defining its future.Select your locationSelect your locationIndustriesChoose a partner with intimate knowledge of your industry and first-hand experience of defining its future.London# Senior Consultant- Solution Architect##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 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 developmentOur Digital Architects are the architects of positive futures and are at the heart of driving better outcomes with and for our clients. As part of shaping this future we use talented Solution Architects to deliver leading-edge digital solutions for our clients, combining a hands-on technology back-ground with a clear understanding of the business value and a consultative approach to make the difference.Working with leading digital architects, technology consultants and business experts you will be at the heart of delivering profitable outcomes in business and technology-oriented environments with a broad range of private- and public-sector clients to achieve their strategic goals. Our Solution Architects sit within the Digital Architecture tribe, which is part of the Future of Technology practice within Capgemini Invent. We are a dynamic community who value growth, professional development and the ability to make a real difference. We aim to work in diverse multi-disciplinary teams, hand-in-glove with our clients.We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work UK’ accolade for 5 consecutive years, to see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor pageAt 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.Experience levelExperienced ProfessionalsLocationLondon