Pod Architect

About the Job you are considering

The Innovation Pod Architect is a strategic, hands-on technology leader responsible for driving future-ready delivery outcomes within the Innovation Pod. This role acts as the bridge between business and technology, ensuring that innovation initiatives are impactful, scalable, and aligned with organizational and client objectives. The Architect partners closely with functional and technology leaders to shape solution direction, maintain delivery continuity, and cultivate a sustainable innovation culture. A core aspect of the role is leading pilots and proof-of-concepts (POCs) to bring emerging technology ideas to life.

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:

• Lead the Innovation Pod end-to-end, aligning business priorities with technology execution.
• Identify and drive transformative innovation opportunities across processes and customer journeys.
• Shape long-term innovation strategies that deliver measurable business value.
• Architect and recommend cutting-edge solutions leveraging emerging technologies.
• Run pilots and POCs to validate feasibility, performance, scalability, and adoption.
• Develop reusable architectural assets, blueprints, accelerators, and reference patterns.
• Translate complex business problems into scalable, future-ready solution architectures.
• Oversee the entire innovation lifecycle with strong governance, quality, and delivery excellence

Your Skills:

• Hands-on expertise in Microsoft Dynamics 365, Azure, and the Power Platform ecosystem.
• Strong capability in designing cloud-native and low-code/no-code enterprise solutions.
• Ability to evaluate and adopt emerging technologies for business transformation.
• Proven leadership in guiding cross-functional innovation and architecture teams.
• Strong consultative skills with effective stakeholder management and communication.
• Skill in simplifying complex technical concepts for clear business decision-making.
• Experience leading POCs, pilots, and innovation-driven solution engagements.
• Forward-thinking mindset with strengths in strategic problem-solving, agility, and experimentation.

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.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):

• 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.
• 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.
• You will be joining one of the World's Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 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.

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.

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 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 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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