AWS Solution Architect

About the Job you are considering:

Join Capgemini’s Financial Services Business Unit within the Cloud & Custom Applications (C&CA) practice as an AWS Solution Architect. Guided by our vision—Consult with Purpose. Continuously Evolve. Architect Tomorrow.—you will deliver secure, scalable solutions that enable lending and core banking transformation. Acting as a trusted, AI-aware advisor, you will connect business and technology to build resilient, future-ready platforms, drive measurable outcomes, and empower teams to continuously grow and innovate across complex financial environments.

Hybrid working:

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role:

• Design and deliver end-to-end cloud architectures that meet business, regulatory, and operational outcomes within lending and core banking
• Lead transformation initiatives that modernise platforms and improve scalability, resilience, and customer experience
• Establish and embed best practices for security, governance, and cost efficiency across financial workloads
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and high-quality delivery outcomes
• Ensure solutions meet regulatory and compliance requirements, reinforcing trust and safeguarding critical systems
• Act as a trusted advisor, translating complex business needs into clear, future-ready architecture decisions
• Conduct architecture reviews and risk assessments to optimise performance in high-volume transactional environments
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation
• Engage stakeholders to align architecture with strategic goals and deliver measurable business value
• Contribute to building AI-aware, future-ready capabilities within teams and client environments

Your Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, API Gateway, and CloudFormation
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale solution architectures within financial services environments
• Strong understanding of lending and core banking domains, including credit risk, loan processing, and payments
• Deep knowledge of cloud architecture principles, including security, scalability, resilience, and governance
• Experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, Terraform/CloudFormation, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of regulatory and compliance frameworks (e.g., GDPR, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS)
• Experience leading large-scale transformation and cloud migration programmes
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to mentor and guide teams while driving best practices
• Awareness of AI-enabled capabilities and their value in shaping future-ready solutions

Good-to-Have Skills

• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional)
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architectures
• Exposure to lending, mortgages, retail banking, or credit platforms
• Knowledge of data platforms, risk analytics, and AI/ML use cases (e.g., credit scoring, fraud detection)

"We are a Disability Confident Employer:

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.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. 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, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
• You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
• You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible.  It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future.  By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

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.
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