Solutions Architect - #2167194

About the Job you are considering:

Join Capgemini's Financial Services Business Unit within the Cloud & Custom Applications (C&CA) practice as a Solution Architect. This role is ideal for an experienced technology leader who can bridge business and technology, shaping scalable, resilient, and future-ready solutions for banking clients. You will work closely with stakeholders to define architecture strategies, guide delivery teams, and drive successful business outcomes. Aligned to our vision of Consult with Purpose. Continuously Evolve. Architect Tomorrow., you will help organisations modernise their technology landscape while promoting innovation, AI fluency, and engineering excellence.

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 solution architectures that align business goals with strategic technology outcomes.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable and sustainable solutions.
• Provide architectural leadership throughout the delivery lifecycle, ensuring quality, resilience, security, and maintainability.
• Drive architectural governance and decision-making across multiple initiatives and programmes.
• Mentor engineering teams and foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and technical excellence.
• Influence strategic technology direction and support transformation programmes within Financial Services.
• Balance functional, non-functional, regulatory, and operational requirements to achieve successful business outcomes.
• Promote modern engineering practices and AI-enabled ways of working to build a future-ready workforce.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams to deliver measurable business value and outstanding client experiences.
• Act as a trusted advisor to clients, supporting technology roadmaps and long-term architectural evolution.

Must-Have Skills

• Strong experience designing and delivering enterprise-scale solution architectures within complex technology environments.
• Hands-on expertise across Java, Kafka, Integration, API-led architectures, Frontend technologies, TypeScript, and Python.
• Deep understanding of application architecture patterns, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and integration strategies.
• Strong experience with cloud-native and serverless architecture patterns, primarily within AWS environments.
• Experience designing solutions leveraging serverless services and modern software delivery practices.
• Proven ability to define architecture roadmaps, target-state architectures, and technology strategies aligned to business outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both business and technical audiences.
• Experience leading architecture decisions across large-scale transformation, modernisation, or digital initiatives.
• Financial Services domain expertise, including one or more of Payments, Cards, Investment Banking, Retail Banking, or related banking platforms.
• Strong understanding of security, resilience, scalability, governance, and non-functional architecture considerations.
• Ability to mentor technical teams and promote engineering excellence, continuous evolution, and AI-aware ways of working.

"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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