Google Cloud Champion - Pre-Sales & Delivery Leadership

Job Role: Google Cloud Champion (Pre-Sales & Delivery Leadership)

Location: London, UK

About the Job you are considering:

Are you a Google Cloud leader who can inspire a client during a pitch and successfully guide them through implementation?

Capgemini Financial Services is looking for a high-impact GCP Cloud Champion to join our Google Cloud Center of Excellence (CoE) in London, UK. This is a comprehensive, client-facing role that spans the entire lifecycle of client engagement. You will act as the face of Capgemini’s GCP capabilities—interfacing directly with marquee Financial Services clients to pitch and win new services business, and subsequently leading the high-level architecture and technical delivery of those solutions.

This role requires a rare blend of commercial acumen, strategic advisory, and hands-on delivery oversight. You will bridge the gap between what is promised in the sales cycle and what is successfully deployed in production for major banking, capital markets, and insurance clients.

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:

• Pre-Sales & Origination: Partner with account teams to lead pre-sales technical discoveries, author compelling proposals (RFPs), and pitch innovative GCP solutions that drive new revenue streams.
• Architectural Delivery Leadership: Serve as the Lead/Principal Architect on strategic accounts, overseeing the high-level design, migration strategy, and successful implementation of complex GCP environments.
• Executive Advisory: Act as a trusted, long-term advisor to client CIOs, CTOs, and Cloud Directors, seamlessly shifting from high-level roadmap strategy to delivery health reviews.
• Commercial Asset Creation: Design and productize reusable GCP solution offerings tailored to Retail Banking, Commercial Banking, Payments, Capital Markets, and Insurance verticals.
• CoE Strategy & Investment: Provide strategic direction for Capgemini’s internal financial investments into GCP solutions, ensuring they align with actual client delivery trends.
• Team Governance: Guide, mentor, and structurally lead a diverse, global team of GCP architects and engineers from initial blueprint through to production go-live.
  
  

Your Skills:

• The "Full Lifecycle" Track Record: Proven experience working within an IT Services/Consulting firm or Cloud CoE, with a demonstrated history of both winning new client business and leading its technical delivery.
• Financial Services Domain Depth: Deep knowledge of the financial services ecosystem, including regulatory compliance, security standards, and legacy application modernization.
• C-Suite Influence: Exceptional communication and presentation skills; mandatory experience interacting with and influencing client CIOs and CTOs.
• GCP Technical Mastery: Seasoned background as a GCP Solutions Architect with a proven track record of bringing complex cloud-native architectures and migrations across the finish line.
• Modern Tech Stack: Familiarity with modern DevOps and containerization tools (e.g., Kubernetes/GKE, Docker, Ansible, Terraform) is highly preferred.
• Global Delivery Models: Strong leadership skills with experience managing and mentoring cross-functional, global (onshore/offshore) delivery teams.
• Preferred GCP Certifications
• GCP Professional Cloud Architect (Highly Preferred)
• GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer or Professional Cloud Network Engineer
  

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 organizations 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 over 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 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

Make it real. | www.capgemini.com