Solution Architect - Managing Consultant / Senior Manager - London

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm seeks a Digital Solution Architect to drive transformation through cutting-edge solutions. In this pivotal role, you'll collaborate with clients to design and implement end-to-end solutions, leveraging cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP. You'll work in a dynamic Agile environment, ensuring solutions meet business needs while fostering a culture of growth and development. Join a team that values inclusivity, professional development, and making a meaningful impact in the digital landscape. This is your chance to shape the future of technology and deliver exceptional outcomes for clients across various sectors.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Mental health support

Wellbeing apps

Performance-based bonuses

Qualifications

• Experience delivering digital solutions on cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Ability to design cost-effective, user-centric solutions that meet business KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end solutions and ensure compliance with architecture standards.
• Provide technical support to scrum teams and lead collaborative efforts with clients.

Skills

Cloud Platform Experience

Agile Environment

Application Development

Cloud Services Understanding

Communication Skills

Solution Design

Technology Trends

Leadership and Development

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Job Description

Solution Architect - Managing Consultant / Senior Manager - London

Reference Code: 221144-en_GB

Contract Type: Permanent

Communities: Strategy & Transformation

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 clients' 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 Digital Solution Architect, your primary focus will be working within a product design or development team to architect solutions for our clients.

You will handle new or existing IT services that require innovative solutions and potentially radical transformations to meet customer expectations for digital offerings.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Solution Design: Architect end-to-end solutions, mapping the underlying capabilities needed to build them.
2. Standards Compliance: Ensure solutions meet required architecture standards, patterns, or blueprints.
3. Technical Support: Provide necessary technical support to scrum teams and the product design team for solution development.
4. Leadership: Offer clear leadership to work collaboratively with clients, proving both delivery approaches (customer-centric and agile) and technical solutions.

Additional Responsibilities:

1. Prototyping and Piloting: Demonstrate the value of new propositions and solutions through prototyping, technical feasibility assessments, and piloting.
2. Cloud-Based Solutions: Implement MVPs or Spikes using cloud-based solutions to prove specific aspects of a solution's value to clients.
3. Hands-On Experience: Collaborate effectively with UX and Service Designers and developers to design, implement, 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 like business development, internal contributions, and learning & development.

YOUR PROFILE

Requirements:

• Cloud Platform Experience: Must have experience delivering digital solutions on one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Agile Environment: Comfortable working in an Agile environment, balancing time-to-value and iterative delivery with governance and control processes.
• Application Development: Experience and knowledge to quickly build and test applications, try out cloud services, and work alongside UX/UI or front-end developers to build prototypes.
• Cloud Services Understanding: A good understanding of cloud services and solution components, including PaaS, SaaS, serverless computing, and microservice-based solutions.
• Communication Skills: Ability to communicate on both business and technical levels, bringing solutions to life for a range of stakeholders.
• Solution Design: Ability to design end-to-end solutions that are cost-effective, increase digital footprint, improve transaction completion rates, understand user-centric design, and meet business KPIs and user satisfaction.
• Technology Trends: Understanding of current and future technology trends. Must have experience delivering digital applications or services in both DevOps and waterfall environments, and know the challenges of integrating old and new technologies.
• Leadership and Development: Ability to develop the 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 at the heart of driving better outcomes with and for our clients. They work with leading digital architects, technology consultants, and business experts to deliver profitable outcomes in various environments, serving private and public sector clients to achieve strategic goals.

We value growth, professional development, and making a real difference. We work in diverse, multi-disciplinary teams, closely with our clients.

Need to Know

We actively promote inclusive, flexible working environments, prioritizing employee wellbeing. We offer flexible working arrangements, mental health support, and wellbeing apps. Our commitment extends to using technology for positive social impact, reducing our carbon footprint, and fostering ethical practices. London, Manchester, or Glasgow are base locations, but roles may involve travel and periods away from home.

Our remuneration package includes flexible benefits and performance-based bonuses.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global leader in business and technology transformation, with over 55 years of heritage and 340,000 employees across more than 50 countries. We help organizations transition to a digital and sustainable world, leveraging strengths in AI, cloud, and data, combined with deep industry expertise. In 2023, our global revenues were €22.5 billion.