Senior Consultant- Solution Architect

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At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

The focus of your role, as a digital solution architect, will be on working in a product design or development team to architect the solutions for our clients. You will work on new or existing IT services that needs innovative solutions and potentially radical transformation to provide the digital offerings expected by the customers. Often both the delivery approach (customer-centric and agile) and technical solutions need to be proven and will require clear leadership to work collaboratively with our clients to achieve their outcome.

Your work will include the design of the end-to-end solution, mapping the underlying capabilities needed to build the solution, to ensure the solution meets the required architecture standards, patterns or blue-prints and to provide the necessary technical support to the scrum teams and product design team to develop the solution. 

AI-Enabled Architecture
You will increasingly design solutions that incorporate AI and automation capabilities. This includes:

• Identifying opportunities to adopt AI into new or existing digital services (LLM-based assistants, classification, prediction, automation).

• Leading AI solution design using modern patterns such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG), multi-agent orchestration, vector search, prompt chaining, and model fine tuning.

• Demonstrating hands-on ability to assess technical feasibility of AI concepts through rapid prototyping, MVPs, cloud-native AI services, or open-source models.

• Explaining the limitations, risks and trade offs of AI models and designing mitigation strategies such as grounding, evaluation frameworks, guardrails and system prompts.

• Supporting clients to understand the business value of AI capabilities and the organisational, data and process changes required for successful adoption.

An additional aspect of your role will be to prove the value of new propositions and solutions to our clients through prototyping, technical feasibility assessment and piloting. Working with cloud-based solutions to quickly implement MVPs or Spikes to prove the value of specific aspects of a solution to our clients. You will need to have hands-on experience to effectively work with UX and Service Designers and developers to design and implement solution and support rapid iterative development.

As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.

• Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.

• Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

• Must have experience of delivering Digital Solutions on one or more cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Comfortable working in an Agile Environment balancing time-to-value and iterative delivery with governance and control processes.
• Experience and knowledge to quickly build and test applications, try out cloud native services, work alongside UX/UI or front end developers to build a prototype without hesitation
• A good understanding of Cloud Services and Solution Components covering PaaS, SaaS, Server Less Computing and Micro-service based solution.
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