Digital Trust - Consultant in Manchester

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 of 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 Invent AI and Digital Trust (AI & DT) practice focuses on ensuring secure business outcomes for our clients, providing cybersecurity advisory and transformation consulting in areas such as security strategy, risk management, human risk management, data and identity security, secure intelligent industry, Gen-AI risk, and security operations modernisation. Our security specialists and innovators enable our clients to evaluate cyber risks, redesign cybersecurity operating models, modernise digital identity capabilities, lead programmes to drive security culture change, and transform security and compliance regimes to make them efficient, effective, sustainable, and resilient.

For this role, we are looking for individuals with experience in cybersecurity to help embed security culture and practices. We continuously recruit across a range of experienced hire grades for our AI & DT practice. Depending on experience, you will be comfortable with exploring ambiguity with a business outcome mindset while applying business analysis and enabling skills including communications and stakeholder engagement as a key delivery contributor, a subject matter expert (SME) in the team and/or manager of a workstream of consultants and client staff.

We Are Looking To Grow Our Diverse Team At The Consultant Grade With Those Who Have Demonstrated Expertise And Experience In One Of The Following Domains:

• Generative AI – Enabling the secure design and adoption of Gen AI for business, IT and/or security functions in alignment with the evolving regulatory landscape (e.g. EU AI Act, GDPR, DPA 2018, etc.).
• Security Architecture – Improving the security posture of the Enterprise and/or applications through the assessment, design or implementation of effective and secure architectural patterns that align with industry standards (e.g. CIS L1/2, NIST, ISO27001, COBIT, etc.).
• Security Assurance – Delivering robust security frameworks such as ISO 27001, NIST, and Cyber Essentials to clients, ensuring their systems and processes meet industry standards and are resilient to threats and tailoring it to our client’s environment, risk profile, and regulatory requirements.

As a Security Consultant In The Business You’ll Help To Grow Our Business, Model Our Values And Behaviours, And Coach And Develop Junior Members Of The Team. Key Expectations From This Role Include:

• Engaging in projects for our clients which transform their cybersecurity and architecture capabilities and reduce business and technology risk.
• Providing expertise in the strategic, organisational, and human aspects of cybersecurity. For example, security strategy definition and high-level operating model design, which are often the first steps in engaging our clients, helping to influence the board and CxO with top-down buy-in and understanding.
• Providing insight for threat modelling, risk management and security overlay approaches by conducting security maturity assessments.
• Providing a business understanding of technical domains and tailoring these to help clients maximise value and leverage quick wins on their transformation journey.
• Engaging with clients in business, IT and/or security to positively influence the board and senior stakeholders to the required outcomes.
• Collaborating with teams and stakeholders to deliver security strategy, governance, security testing, identity & access management (IAM), security architecture, privacy, and cyber data analytics.

Your Profile

To be successful in this role you would need to have the below mixture of skills and experience:

• Understanding the future of Gen AI and the impact on cyber security.
• Experience in one or more cybersecurity domains. (e.g., Security & Risk Management, Security Architecture, Asset Security, Security Engineering, Communications & Network Security, Identity & Access Management, Security Education and Awareness, Security Assessment & Testing, Security Operations, or Software Development Security).
• Desired cybersecurity experience is as follows: Working with SOC teams, OT Security, Security Architecture, Security Op Model Transformation projects and Cybersecurity Assessments, Secure AI.
• Familiarity with core cybersecurity frameworks and industry frameworks (e.g., NIST CSF, ISO27001, CIS Critical Controls), regulations (e.g., NIS2) and financial regulations (e.g., DORA, FCA, Bank of England, etc.).
• Relevant Cybersecurity qualifications such as CompTIA Security+, AWS Cloud Practitioner, Azure Fundamentals, CISMP preferred.
• Currently working in an established consulting firm, and/or in industry but having a consulting background.
• Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
• Experience of proposition building and delivery.
• Cross-sector or SME sector experience in core Capgemini sectors. (e.g., Financial Services; Public Sector; Energy, Utilities & Chemicals; Consumer Products Retail Distribution; Manufacturing, Automotive & Life Sciences; Telco, Media & Technology).
• Bring excellent communication skills and the confidence to influence senior stakeholders to the role.
• Have approximately 2 years of experience in delivery of cybersecurity projects.
• SC cleared (or above), or eligible.

What you'll love about working here?

We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work in the UK’ accolade for 4 consecutive years. To see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor Page. Capgemini Invent offers Consultants a culture of learning, ownership, and focus on value. You’ll gain exposure to high-profile transformations and gain hands-on exposure to leading technologies. Our consultants are formally trained by industry experts in consulting and client delivery. Consultants have access to a vast array for different training and certifications in a variety of areas: Cybersecurity (CISSP, CISM), cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP), and Agile delivery (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Scaled Agile Framework). Capgemini Invent offers you the flexibility to develop various areas of knowledge in technical domains aligned both to your interests and our client’s outcomes.

Les Fontaines: Capgemini Invent has a unique training environment just outside of Paris, where we can immerse ourselves in thought‑leadership, share knowledge and build capabilities that will help us and our clients to succeed. We hold monthly showcases of our digital transformation initiatives, sharing knowledge and showing off how the power of technology is impacting our clients. There are monthly team drinks, and it’s a chance to connect face-to-face with the wider team over a few drinks in the city. Team away days are always a chance to connect with the team, have fun and learn something new.

Need to know

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion Campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work. We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. 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. 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. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

CSR

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice. We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance. In order to commence a role with Capgemini UK plc you will be required to provide documentary proof prior to joining the Company that you are entitled to live and work in the UK.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 58-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion.