Solution Architect

About the job you’re considering

As a Solution Architect in Strategic Business Solutions (SBS), you will work on pre-sales through to execution, working on the conversion of our most exciting and high-profile opportunities into iconic wins, and then working on programmes to deliver the solution. Your work will centre on large or strategic business transformation programmes, underpinned by ERP, that require cross-Capgemini capability. 

You will work on UK opportunities or global opportunities with a UK component and will collaborate with colleagues across business lines and geographies to build solutions for our clients. 

Capgemini UK Applications focuses on helping our clients achieve business value though digital transformation and the application of social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies. We are an Agile cloud-first organisation delivering API enabled digital solutions that scale, using on and offshore capabilities. 

We are experts in navigating our clients through the complexities of large-scale, technology enabled business transformation programmes, using our skills to drive outstanding delivery and business outcomes. Having the right people using the right methodology and following the right process is key to ensuring every client gets the right outcome.

Strategic Business Solutions (SBS) sits within Applications and has been highly successful in winning work in multiple major accounts. 

Hybrid working: The places that you work day to day will vary according to your role, your needs and that of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client site and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home for 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual), or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service).

Your role

Key Responsibilities:

• Build, contribute and lead solutions underpinned by AI using the “best of Capgemini” from across Capgemini UK and our global business.
• Build SBS’s internal reputation through collaborative and focused working that results in compelling solutions for our clients.
• Work closely with the rest of the other Capgemini practices and external partners to create compelling solutions for our clients, ensuring our work is reusable in other pursuits.
• Innovate and devise compelling propositions for existing clients.
• Build a thorough knowledge of Capgemini’s internal assets.  Work with a world-class and continuous improvement mindset to identify, or where appropriate build/or oversee the building of, innovative offers, methods and tools that can become part of our standard delivery approach.
• Post award, work with, or in, delivery teams to help ensure they are set up for success and that the solution is well delivered.
• Represent Capgemini to our clients’ organisations, building personal and corporate credibility and confidence.
• Represent Capgemini externally with an active industry profile. 
  Deliver specific delivery work or provide expertise on projects in billable work.

Your skills and experience:

• Your deep solution experience should include partnering with other experts, both within and outside your organisation, to design winning end-to-end solutions.
• You will possess excellent client facing skills and be fluent presenting to, and forming relationships with, our clients and being seen as a trusted advisor.
• You will be experienced in participating in challenging or large-scale bids and responses from first engagement to starting delivery.
• You will be adept at using AI and continuously curious about leveraging emerging agentic and leading technologies.
• You will have a strong understanding of solving client business problems using technology.
• You will design solutions reaching across the Capgemini ecosystem and our partners, to build unique and compelling offers.
• Your long history of delivery excellence will mean you bring strong client and partner relationships and you will be a magnet for talent within the consulting market.
• You will likely have experience in multiple industries and will have a deep knowledge of their value chains and pain points. 

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.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. 

To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.

Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Make it real – what does it mean for you?

Your wellbeing 
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. 

Impactful Experiences
You will reimagine what’s possible: creating value for the world’s leading organisations through technology to build a sustainable, more inclusive future. You will work with a range of clients all with a unique set of business, technological and societal ambitions, which will make a real impact across the UK.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask.  But when you join Capgemini, you join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts.  A powerful source of energy that drives us all to 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. And you’ll use them to help our clients leverage technology to grow their business and give innovation that human touch the world needs. 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 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. 

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