About the Role
Join the Financial Services Business Unit within Capgemini's Cloud & Custom Applications (C&CA) practice as an AWS Solution Architect. This role is ideal for a hands-on architect passionate about designing scalable, cloud-native solutions and helping clients solve complex business challenges through modern integration and event-driven architectures. You will act as a trusted advisor, continuously evolve your expertise, and help architect tomorrow's solutions while contributing to a future-ready, AI-aware workforce. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver measurable outcomes, drive innovation, and create lasting value for clients.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver scalable cloud-native solutions meeting business, operational, and integration requirements.
- Lead the definition of solution architectures supporting reliable, secure, and high-performing services.
- Build and enhance serverless processing capabilities for efficient handling of business-critical data and events.
- Create robust API and service integration solutions for seamless data exchange across enterprise platforms.
- Design and implement event-driven architectures enabling responsive, resilient, and loosely coupled systems.
- Define data storage and persistence approaches balancing scalability, performance, and maintainability.
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into effective solution designs.
- Promote engineering excellence through architecture governance, design best practices, and continuous improvement.
- Support delivery teams in resolving complex technical challenges and ensuring successful solution outcomes.
- Champion innovation, continuous learning, and awareness of AI-enabled approaches to improve delivery effectiveness and build a future-ready workforce.
Requirements
- AWS Solution Architect certification or other relevant cloud certifications.
- Experience designing and delivering serverless architectures using AWS services.
- Knowledge of event streaming and messaging frameworks, including NATS JetStream.
- Experience with RESTful service design and enterprise integration patterns.
- Familiarity with AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, and DynamoDB.
- Understanding of secure architecture principles and modern cloud governance practices.
- Experience working within Financial Services or other highly regulated industries.
- Exposure to AI-assisted development, architecture, or productivity tools.
- Knowledge of distributed systems, resilience patterns, and scalable application design.
- Experience operating within Agile product and delivery environments.
Location
- Northampton
Work Type
- Hybrid
Benefits
- Accredited Great Place to Work for Wellbeing in 2024.
- Trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each business area.
- Investment in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
- Empowerment to explore, innovate, and progress.
- Countless training and development opportunities (thinktanks, hackathons).
- Access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications (AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Manage Mentor, Cybersecurity).
- Recognition as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® for 13 consecutive years.
About the Company
- Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value.
- We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people.
- With a heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries.
- We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with deep industry expertise and a strong partner ecosystem, leveraging capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering, and business operations.
- The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
