Technical Architect (AWS and Microservices) - London, UK

About the Job you are considering:

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

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:

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 longterm technology roadmap planning.

Your Skills:

AWS and microservices experience in Mandatory

Technical Leadership Architecture Governance
Own the overall application architecture and technical roadmap
Ensure architectural integrity across production nonproduction 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

Application Maintenance Continuous Improvement
Support stable operation of businesscritical 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

Production Support Operational Excellence
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

Enhancement Delivery
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 nonfunctional requirements
Govern release readiness and deployment strategies

Cloud Platform Engineering
Lead cloud architecture reviews and platform optimization initiatives
Guide infrastructure upgrades platform migrations and service improvements
Drive implementation of cloudnative practices where appropriate
Ensure platforms are secure scalable resilient and costefficient

DevSecOps Engineering Excellence
Champion DevSecOps culture and automationfirst practices
Improve CICD 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

Security Compliance
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 securitybydesign principles across the application lifecycle

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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