Microsoft Viva Architect

About the Job you are considering:

Join C&CA as a Microsoft Viva Architect and help organisations create connected, engaging, and future-ready employee experiences. Guided by our vision to Consult with Purpose. Continuously Evolve. Architect Tomorrow., you will work with business, HR, security, and technology stakeholders to shape strategic employee experience solutions that drive collaboration, engagement, wellbeing, and workforce effectiveness. As a trusted, AI-fluent advisor, you will define architecture strategies, guide delivery teams, and help clients realise measurable business value through modern digital workplace transformation.

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:

• Define end-to-end architecture for enterprise employee experience and workforce insights solutions.
• Translate business goals into scalable, secure, and future-ready solution designs.
• Develop architecture roadmaps, standards, and implementation approaches aligned to organisational objectives.
• Provide architectural leadership and governance throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Collaborate with business, HR, security, data, and delivery teams to achieve successful outcomes.
• Establish adoption frameworks, best practices, and operating models that maximise business value.
• Enable workforce insights and organisational effectiveness through data-driven approaches and measurable outcomes.
• Champion innovation, continuous improvement, responsible AI adoption, and future-ready workforce strategies.

Must-Have Skills

• Experience designing and leading enterprise-scale employee experience or digital workplace solutions.
• Strong enterprise and solution architecture expertise.
• Ability to engage senior stakeholders and influence strategic decisions.
• Experience developing architecture roadmaps, governance, and best-practice frameworks.
• Knowledge of workforce analytics, employee engagement, and organisational effectiveness principles.
• Strong communication, consulting, and stakeholder management skills.
• Understanding of security, privacy, compliance, and risk management in enterprise environments.
• Awareness of AI capabilities and their application within workplace transformation initiatives.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Microsoft Viva Suite experience.
• Microsoft 365 ecosystem knowledge.
• Microsoft Graph, Power Platform, and Azure experience.
• Experience integrating HR, learning, and enterprise service platforms.
• Microsoft or enterprise architecture certifications.
• Experience delivering large-scale digital workplace transformation programmes.

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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