Senior Manager - Solution Architect

Capgemini; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini Invent is seeking a Senior Manager - Solution Architect to lead cloud solution design for Financial Services clients. This role will have a significant impact on transforming risk management and involves technical leadership in AWS solutions. Successful candidates will possess in-depth knowledge of data architectures and strong stakeholder engagement skills.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Mental Health support programs

Professional development opportunities

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Proven experience in designing cloud-based data architectures.
• Understanding of compliance regulations like FCA, GDPR.
• Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, or Scala are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable data solutions on AWS.
• Lead development of cloud-native data products utilizing AWS services.
• Advise clients on data strategy and architecture modernization.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Stakeholder Management

Agile Delivery

Data Analysis

Risk Management

Education

AWS Certified Solutions Architect

AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty

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

Join our fast-growing & collaborative Data-Driven Financial Risk & Compliance (DFRC) team and shape the future of risk and finance! We harness cutting-edge technology, AI-powered models, and cloud-first data platforms to transform risk management from a reactive function into a strategic powerhouse-driving growth, resilience, and competitive edge. Be part of a dynamic and inclusive team that's redefining how businesses anticipate, manage, and capitalize on risk.

As a Senior Manager - Solution Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering cutting-edge cloud solutions for our Financial Services clients. You will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of data products and architectures, ensuring scalability, security, and compliance while aligning with business objectives. You will own and drive enterprise solutions covering orchestration, access control, consumption via market leading cloud solutions to ensure seamless integration with larger hyperscalers such as AWS, Azure and GCP to support key downstream uses including machine learning, AI/GenAI solutions.

In this role you will play a key role in:

• Cloud Solution Architecture: Design and implement scalable, secure, and resilient data solutions on AWS, ensuring best practices in architecture, performance, and cost optimization.
• Architecture Roadmap Definition: Define the strategic solutions and architecture roadmap covering key platform capabilities, engaging with Enterprise Solution Architects and Data Architects to ensure alignment on program objectives and north star goals.
• Engage with the data product management and engineering teams to triage and prioritise platform capabilities to deliver business and customer outcomes.
• AWS Data Product Development: Lead the development of cloud-native data products using AWS services such as S3, Redshift, Glue, Lambda, and DynamoDB, aligning with business needs.
• Technical Leadership & Advisory: Act as a trusted AWS expert, advising clients on cloud migration, data strategy, and architecture modernization while working closely with CDOs and CTOs.
• Security, Compliance & Risk Management: Ensure AWS-based solutions meet financial services security standards, compliance requirements (e.g., FCA, GDPR), and risk controls.
• Team Enablement & Solution Delivery: Guide teams in Cloud architecture best practices, oversee solution deployment, and bridge the gap between technical teams and business stakeholders.
• While this role requires expertise in solution architecture, we are looking for versatile team members, capable of successfully executing a diverse array of data-driven projects. This includes expertise in agile delivery, requirements gathering, data analysis, stakeholder management, governance, and compliance.

As part of your role, you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities such as:

• Business Development - Leading on proposals, RFPs, bids, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal contribution - Proposition development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities) etc.
• Learning & Development - Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, including leadership and technology certifications etc.

Your Profile

We are looking for candidates who bring a combination of technical expertise, consultancy experience, and leadership skills to excel in this role.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate most or all of the following:

• Financial Services Industry Knowledge - Understanding of the regulatory landscape, compliance requirements (FCA, GDPR, etc.), and security best practices relevant to cloud-based data platforms and analytics solutions.
• Strong technical expertise in AWS - Proven experience in designing and implementing cloud-based data architectures, ETL pipelines, and cloud-native applications, using services such as AWS EC2, S3, Lambda, Glue, Redshift, RDS, IAM, and KMS.
• Leadership & Stakeholder Management - Ability to engage with C-level executives (CDOs, CTOs, CIOs), lead cross-functional teams, and drive technical strategy in complex enterprise environments.
• Agile & Solution Delivery - Experience in Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD methodologies, with a focus on automation, infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation), and cloud security.

Preferred Qualifications & Certifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (or Associate with relevant experience)
• AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty (preferred)
• Experience with multi-cloud environments (Azure, GCP) is a plus
• Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, or Scala for data engineering use cases

Good to have:

• Currently working in a major Consulting firm, and/or in industry, but having a Consulting background with proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
• Experience with proposition building and delivery.
• Experience in business development, utilising the organisation's broader pre-existing relationships and leveraging your own network to generate new consulting revenues.

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE?

Our DFRC team is part of the wider Data & AI Factory team within our Enterprise Data Analytics (EDA) team which takes pride in transforming clients' businesses with Data & AI making a tangible difference for our clients, setting industry standards and unlocking business value. By being part of the EDA team, you can grow your expertise, contribute to meaningful work, and celebrate successes as part of a dynamic team.

DFRC consultants will engage in projects designed to transform financial operations for our clients. Our team's expertise spans across several focus areas from risk based decisioning & analytics, credit risk, financial crime and KYC/AML to data privacy, governance and the many applications of GenAI within financial services.

At Capgemini Invent, our strong partnerships with our clients and partners allows us to harness the power of data and AI to address complex business challenges. We're building a successful team of experts across risk and finance; leveraging these capabilities to solve intricate problems and unlock new opportunities in diverse sectors.

As a team:

• We value diversity: we embrace the value that diverse teams bring to our EDA practice and our clients.
• We focus on clients: positively impacting our clients data culture and operations
• are committed to learning and development: obsessed with advancing our data, insights and analytics skills
• We're stronger when we collaborate: active collaboration and other Invent capabilities and with wider Capgemini, most notably I&D, Cambridge Consultants and with select third party alliances
• We foster community: building new analytics and AI products and services through our functional and industry communities of interest.
• We believe data can be a driver for a better world: we will use our AI & analytics skills to improve sustainability, address climate change and champion active inclusion

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 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.

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 Invent

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 340,000 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 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.