Microsoft Azure Managing Solutions Architect – London

Capgemini’s Cloud Native Hyperscaler Azure team is seeking a visionary and technically accomplished Managing Azure Architect to deliver strategic client engagements across our Azure portfolio. This role is ideal for someone with deep technical expertise, a passion for innovation, and a proven track record of influencing cloud-native transformation at scale.

You will play a pivotal role in shaping and growing our Azure architecture capability, driving pre-sales and go-to-market initiatives, and leading complex solution design for enterprise clients. You’ll work closely with Microsoft, internal delivery teams, and client stakeholders to deliver transformative outcomes.

As a Managing Azure Solutions Architect, you will be instrumental in developing and enhancing our Azure architecture capabilities. Your responsibilities will include overseeing the design and delivery of sophisticated solutions for enterprise clients. In this leadership role, you will collaborate closely with internal delivery teams, client stakeholders and Microsoft to ensure impactful and innovative outcomes that drive cloud transformation. You will also need to support pre-sales activities, guiding our go-to-market strategies.

Your role

• Technical Delivery & Governance
  • Lead the design of secure, scalable, and resilient Azure solutions for enterprise clients.
  • Provide architectural oversight and governance across delivery engagements.
  • Mentor and coach architects and engineers, fostering a high-performance culture.
  • Drive the integration of AI capabilities within Azure solutions to deliver innovative, data-driven outcomes for clients.
• Thought Leadership & Evangelism
  • Act as a visible leader in the Azure community – internally and externally – through blogs, events, and technical enablement.
  • Drive the adoption of modern cloud-native patterns (e.g. microservices, containers, serverless, AI integration) across the practice.
  • Contribute to the evolution of Capgemini’s Cloud Native Hyperscaler Azure reference architectures and accelerators.
• Business Development & Pre-Sales
  • Support architecture strategy and solutioning for Azure-centric bids and proposals.
  • Represent Capgemini in client-facing engagements, articulating the value of Azure-native solutions.
• Capability Building
  • Shape and grow the Azure architecture community within C&CA.
  • Support certification and learning initiatives aligned to Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption Framework and Well-Architected Framework.

Your skills and experience

• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Proven experience as a managing lead architect on large-scale Azure transformation programmes.
• Deep knowledge of Azure services including App Services, AKS, Azure Functions, API Management, Logic Apps, AI Services, Foundry, Copilot Studio and Azure DevOps.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native design principles, DevSecOps, and platform engineering.
• Microsoft Azure certifications (e.g. AZ-305, AZ-400).
• Experience in pre-sales, bid support, and client stakeholder engagement.

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 and pre-employment checks: 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). 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. Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.

Make it real – what does it mean for you? 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.

You will be joining one of the Worlds Most Ethical Companies, as recognised by Ethisphere for 12 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.

Capgemini. Make it real.

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.

Make it real | 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.