Solution Architect

To act as a technical partner to the sales team and a delivery guide for clients and internal teams, ensuring that every solution is both commercially compelling and technically sound. The Solution Architect will shape and support pre-sales engagements, lead solution design, and provide hands-on guidance through delivery. This role will also help extend initial AI-led engagements into broader Capgemini and Sogeti offerings, acting as a generalist bridge across the portfolio.

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:

• Partner with sales and account teams to shape client conversations and articulate the value of Sogeti’s AI portfolio.
• Lead the creation of solution blueprints, proposal templates, and PoC kits tailored to client needs.
• Participate in Jump Start workshops, helping clients envision and validate AI use cases.
• Translate business challenges into technical opportunities, ensuring alignment with our five core service lines.
• Identify opportunities to extend initial engagements into pull through for other services (e.g. data platforms, automation, cloud, sustainability).
• Own the technical architecture of client solutions, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.
• Guide internal delivery teams and client stakeholders through onboarding, implementation, and handover.
• Develop and maintain delivery playbooks, onboarding guides, and reusable frameworks.
• Ensure delivery aligns with Sogeti’s AI-native, customer-obsessed, and simplicity-first principles.
• Act as a generalist integrator, able to connect AI-led engagements with other Capgemini and Sogeti capabilities.
• Collaborate with SMEs across the group to shape end-to-end solutions that go beyond the initial scope.
• Help clients navigate the broader portfolio, identifying where additional value can be unlocked.
• Work closely with AI Specialists, Product Owners, and Content Strategists in agile sprints.
• Contribute to internal knowledge sharing and capability uplift across the MM team.
• Support governance through regular reviews with the CSO and Mid-Market leadership.

Your skills and experience:

• Proven ability to design scalable, secure, and modular architectures across AI, data, and cloud environments.
• Comfortable shaping proposals, leading technical discovery, and supporting sales conversations with credibility and clarity.
• Able to connect dots across AI, cloud, data, automation, and ESG to unlock broader portfolio opportunities.
• Thrives in fast-paced environments, adapts quickly to changing client needs, and responds with urgency and precision.
• Builds trust with clients, internal teams, and partners through clear communication and collaborative working.
• Guides teams through onboarding and implementation, ensuring technical integrity and business alignment.
• Understands GenAI, MLOps, and data engineering principles and how to embed them into client solutions.

What does 'Get The Future You Want' mean for you?

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 Management or Cybersecurity qualifications and much more. 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.

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 diverse 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 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 55-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.