Cloud Architect

Operating within Capgemini's modern pod-based delivery model, you will act as a senior technical authority, owning the integrity, reliability, and evolution of cloud platforms in live service. You'll thrive at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and operations, while acting as a trusted advisor to clients undergoing significant cloud and digital transformation. The strength of our Pods lies within our people, fostered by a supportive team culture.

As a Cloud Architect, you will thrive on having Design Authority for the relevant Service Line aligned to your expertise. You will enjoy being the focal point for ensuring its technical integrity. Being part of an enthusiastic Business Technologist community will enable you to maintain awareness of the latest technologies and innovations within the Capgemini Portfolio and apply these to your technology domains. You will also provide inspiration and act as a role model for a talented and enthusiastic team of Engineers in your Service Line.

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

As a senior technical authority for cloud platform, you will contribute to both operational and project-based activities alongside fellow Consultants, Engineers, and Analysts. You will be empowered to:

• Own end-to-end delivery of cloud managed services, meeting SLAs, customer outcomes, and governing change and service acceptance.
• Provide technical leadership for the service line, ensuring architectural integrity, standards adherence, and effective governance.
• Define and maintain cloud blueprints, reference architectures, roadmaps, and lifecycle standards to ensure scalable and operable solutions.
• Drive platform reliability, performance, and optimisation through SRE principles, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Act as a trusted advisor across clients and internal stakeholders, supporting live services, projects, bids, and mentoring engineers while ensuring security, compliance, and contractual alignment.

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Do you have experience in Terraform?, * A proven track record of acting as a Cloud Architect within a Managed Services environment.

• Demonstrates experience operating as a Service Line Design Authority within large, complex managed services environments, including bids and transitions.
• Strong understanding of contracts, commercials, and stakeholder management, with proven ability to build client relationships.
• Proven platform engineering expertise across Azure (preferable) and/or AWS, delivering and operating production environments at scale.
• Advanced DevOps and cloud-native capabilities, including Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, GitHub, Kubernetes, and containerised workloads.
• Recognised technical leader who influences without authority, thriving in Agile, collaborative, product-aligned delivery environments.

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. *, 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.

Flexibility to work your way You will be encouraged to have a positive work-life balance. Our hybrid-first way of working means we embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.

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.

Shape your path 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.

Shared energy You'll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You'll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.

Capgemini ist einer der weltweit führenden Anbieter von Management- und IT-Beratung, Technologie-Services und Digitaler Transformation. Als ein Wegbereiter für Innovation unterstützt das Unternehmen seine Kunden bei deren komplexen Herausforderungen rund um Cloud, Digital und Plattformen.