About the Role
Join Capgemini's Cloud & Custom Applications (C&CA) practice as an AWS Solution Architect, helping clients shape and deliver future-ready digital solutions within the Financial Services Business Unit. You will combine architecture leadership, stakeholder engagement, and delivery expertise to design scalable, resilient, and business-aligned solutions, acting as a trusted advisor and championing innovation.
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and delivery of complex business solutions, ensuring alignment with client objectives and enterprise strategy.
- Create high-quality solution and architecture designs that translate business requirements into scalable and sustainable outcomes.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, delivery teams, and external partners to drive successful programme delivery.
- Design integrations and end-to-end solution approaches that support business growth, resilience, and operational efficiency.
- Promote architectural best practices, governance standards, and consistent delivery excellence across programmes.
- Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, improve maintainability, and enable future business capabilities.
- Maximise reuse of existing services, assets, and data capabilities where appropriate to accelerate delivery and reduce risk.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to delivery teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
- Proactively manage delivery risks, dependencies, and issues while maintaining transparency with stakeholders.
- Champion AI-fluent ways of working and contribute to developing a future-ready workforce across teams and client engagements.
Requirements
- Strong experience in solution architecture, technical design, and software delivery across complex enterprise environments.
- Proven ability to lead architecture decisions from concept through implementation and operational adoption.
- Demonstrated experience designing API-led, integration-focused, and event-driven solutions.
- Strong technical leadership with the ability to guide, mentor, and influence multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience managing end-to-end project and delivery lifecycles in client-facing environments.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a focus on delivering business value.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery outcomes.
- Understanding of modern software engineering principles, architecture patterns, and integration approaches.
- Experience within the Insurance sector, particularly Commercial Insurance or the London Market, is advantageous.
Skills
- AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, and DynamoDB
- Node.js and TypeScript development experience
- Java and Spring Boot development experience
- PostgreSQL and data persistence technologies
- Apigee or comparable API management platforms
- REST API development and management
- Python development skills
- Agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum
- ServiceNow, Confluence, and Jira
- AWS, architecture, or cloud-related certifications
Work Type
- Hybrid working
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 from thinktanks to hackathons
- Access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Manage Mentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more
- Recognition as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®
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 our strong 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 our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our 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.
