AWS Solution Architect

About the Job you are considering:

Join Capgemini's Cloud & Custom Applications (C&CA) practice as an AWS Solution Architect, where you will help clients shape and deliver future-ready digital solutions. Working within the Financial Services Business Unit, you will combine architecture leadership, stakeholder engagement, and delivery expertise to design scalable, resilient, and business-aligned solutions. Guided by our vision to Consult with Purpose. Continuously Evolve. Architect Tomorrow., you will act as a trusted advisor, champion innovation, promote AI awareness where appropriate, and help teams deliver measurable outcomes while building long-term capability and reducing technical complexity.

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.

Key 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.

Must-Have Skills

• 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.

Good-to-Have 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.
• Experience supporting enterprise transformation and cloud modernisation initiatives.

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 Manage Mentor, 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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