Digital Architect - Senior Manager

CAPGEMINI INVENT

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.

YOUR ROLE

The focus of your role, as a Digital Solution Architect Senior Manager, will be guiding our clients through technology enabled transformation, influencing and realising their business strategy. You will be responsible for identifying and implementing innovative solutions, particularly AI solutions, to achieve clients' business objectives.

Often both the delivery approach (customer-centric and agile) and technical solutions need to be proven and will require you to demonstrate leadership and collaborativeness to guide our clients to their outcomes. Your work will include team leadership and personal contributions to design and deliver end-to-end solutions.

You will contribute to Capgemini's expanding roster of AI solutions for architecture and the further development of AI skills amongst out established team members.

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
• 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.

A significant 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.

Senior Managers in Invent contribute to our business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development - Leading proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting  will be required to deliver new bookings of £1m per annum.
• 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.

YOUR PROFILE

• 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.
• Experience with AI either through AI tools to assist Architecture or Architecture for AI
• Ability to communicate complex AI concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, grounding explanations in business value and real-world risk.
• Understanding of cloud-native AI services (e.g., Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Gemini) and how they integrate with enterprise services, security patterns and APIs.
• Ability to communicate on a Business and Technical level bringing solutions to life for a range of stakeholders.
• Ability to design an end to end solution that is cost effective, increases digital footprint, increases completion rates of a transaction, understand user centric design, meets business KPIs and user satisfaction
• Ability to define, mobilise and lead managed architecture services
• Understanding of the current and future technology trends. You must have worked in delivering digital applications or services, Dev Ops and waterfall environments before and know the challenges to bring the best of old and new world
• Ability to develop our next generation of digital architects through formal line management and informal…