Job Description

• As a Technology Solution Architect, you will advise senior clients while defining and leading significant transformation efforts for Capgemini’s clients. The Architect role integrates customer and market perspectives, with best practices for people, process and technology enablement to deliver well-defined business benefits. The role requires the ability to think critically, moving from problems/issues to root causes, to solutions and compelling business cases
• Provide leadership across the group Financial Services account portfolio - to deliver one or more services provided within the FS Transformation practice
• Work as part of a global team of architects to define technology direction for Capgemini clients
• Collaborate across multiple practices for larger scale solutions
• Lead initiatives and teams of consultants
• Act as a bridge between business and technology
• Advise on technical best practice for cloud and application enablement (integration, data management, SRE practices) from logical architecture through to physical architecture (i.e. selection products and technologies)

Primary Skill

• 7-12+ years technology, architecture and FS experience – (Ideally across banking, payments, insurance, cards and capital markets sub-sectors)
• Cloud architecture and migration (PaaS/IaaS/SaaS – Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AWS, Azure)
• Application integration (middleware) common services (inc asynchronous /synchronous messaging, event streaming, data storage and management)
• End to end agile infrastructure architecture across all layers
• Logical and Physical Data modelling
• Scalable architectures
• Web applications servers (Apache HTTP Server & Tomcat, IIS, WebSphere)
• Service architecture - Experience of API and service-based architectures using SOAP, REST APIs, micro-services and utilizing JSON for web or mobile applications
• Enterprise scale distributed NoSQL solutions including MongoDB, in-memory databases and caching solutions adopted for globally distributed Digital solutions
• CI/CD - tools such as Confluence, Jira, Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Stash, SonarQube, Performance centre
• Methods and delivery - DevOps processes and experience. Strong understanding of lean and agile methods of software delivery including Scrum, Kanban, Lean UX, XP
• High availability and contingency solutions

Secondary Skill

• Some experience of TOGAF and/or Zachman frameworks
• Complex problem solving
• Strong presentation skills

• Experience with modern digital transformation (e.g. envisioning the modern customer experience, driving insights from data, service-based operating models, cloud-based propositions and migration approaches etc
• Complex problem solving
• Enduring client relationship at sponsor / decision-making level
• Experience of providing and justifying strategic (not just transactional) advice
• Business results focus
• Critical thinker, is not afraid of challenging others' ideas and quick learner, innovative thinker.
• Ability to deal with ambiguous situations and issues