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About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Technical Architect to provide technical leadership for a mature enterprise application landscape supporting ongoing operations, maintenance, enhancements, and modernization initiatives. The role will be responsible for ensuring platform stability, driving continuous improvement, governing architecture decisions, supporting production operations, and enabling delivery teams to implement business and technical changes efficiently and securely. The successful candidate will act as the technology leader across application support, enhancement delivery, cloud operations, DevSecOps practices, and long-term technology roadmap planning.

Responsibilities

Own the overall application architecture and technical roadmap.
Ensure architectural integrity across production, non-production, and integration environments.
Review and approve solution designs for enhancements, change requests, and platform upgrades.
Drive technology simplification, standardization, and technical debt reduction.
Establish and enforce architecture principles, standards, and engineering best practices.
Provide technical guidance to delivery and support teams.
Support stable operation of business-critical applications.
Lead analysis of recurring production issues and identify strategic remediation opportunities.
Drive platform improvements focused on reliability, performance, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
Evaluate and recommend modernization opportunities for legacy components.
Ensure sustainable support models and operational readiness across environments.
Provide architectural guidance during major incidents and problem investigations.
Review root cause analyses and ensure implementation of permanent fixes.
Support incident, problem, and change management processes.
Ensure application availability, resilience, disaster recovery, and business continuity requirements are met.
Drive proactive monitoring, observability, alerting, and operational automation initiatives.
Partner with business and product stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Support estimation, impact assessments, and solution planning for enhancements.
Ensure new functionality aligns with architectural standards and non-functional requirements.
Govern release readiness and deployment strategies.
Lead cloud architecture reviews and platform optimization initiatives.
Guide infrastructure upgrades, platform migrations, and service improvements.
Drive implementation of cloud-native practices where appropriate.
Ensure platforms are secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient.
Champion DevSecOps culture and automation-first practices.
Improve CI/CD maturity, deployment reliability, and release automation.
Promote secure software development practices.
Drive adoption of automated testing, code quality controls, and engineering metrics.
Enable continuous improvement through measurable engineering outcomes.
Ensure architecture complies with organizational security and compliance standards.
Participate in security reviews, threat assessments, and vulnerability remediation planning.
Support audit, governance, and regulatory requirements.
Establish security-by-design principles across the application lifecycle.

Requirements

AWS and microservices experience is mandatory.

Skills

Technical Leadership
Architecture Governance
AWS
Microservices

Location

Hybrid

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Experienced

Benefits

Accredited Great Place to Work for Wellbeing in 2024
Trained ‘Mental Health Champions’
Wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy
Empowerment to explore, innovate, and progress
Countless training and development opportunities
Access to 250,000 courses
Numerous external certifications (AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity)
Joining 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.
www.capgemini.com

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.