AWS Technical Lead

AWS Technical Lead Overview

Join Capgemini’s Cloud & Custom Applications (C&CA) practice as an AWS Technical Lead, where you will assist clients in shaping and delivering innovative digital solutions. Within the Financial Services Business Unit, you will leverage your architecture leadership, stakeholder engagement, and delivery expertise to design scalable and resilient solutions that align with business objectives.

In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor, promote innovation, and help teams achieve measurable outcomes while reducing technical complexity. Your work will involve a blend of company offices, client sites, and remote work, ensuring flexibility while maintaining business needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture and delivery of complex business solutions, ensuring alignment with client objectives and enterprise strategy.
• Create high-quality solution and architecture designs that translate business requirements into scalable and sustainable outcomes.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, delivery teams, and external partners to drive successful programme delivery.
• Design integrations and end-to-end solution approaches that support business growth, resilience, and operational efficiency.
• Promote architectural best practices, governance standards, and consistent delivery excellence across programmes.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt, improve maintainability, and enable future business capabilities.
• Maximise reuse of existing services, assets, and data capabilities where appropriate to accelerate delivery and reduce risk.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to delivery teams, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.
• Proactively manage delivery risks, dependencies, and issues while maintaining transparency with stakeholders.
• Champion AI-fluent ways of working and contribute to developing a future-ready workforce across teams and client engagements.

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong experience in solution architecture, technical design, and software delivery across complex enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to lead architecture decisions from concept through implementation and operational adoption.
• Demonstrated experience designing API-led, integration-focused, and event-driven solutions.
• Strong technical leadership with the ability to guide, mentor, and influence multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience managing end-to-end project and delivery lifecycles in client-facing environments.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a focus on delivering business value.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery outcomes.
• Understanding of modern software engineering principles, architecture patterns, and integration approaches.
• Experience within the Insurance sector, particularly Commercial Insurance or the London Market, is advantageous.

Good-to-Have Skills:

• AWS services including Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, and DynamoDB.
• Node.js and TypeScript development experience.
• Java and Spring Boot development experience.
• PostgreSQL and data persistence technologies.
• Apigee or comparable API management platforms.
• REST API development and management.
• Python development skills.
• Agile delivery methodologies, including Scrum.
• ServiceNow, Confluence, and Jira.
• AWS, architecture, or cloud-related certifications.
• Experience supporting enterprise transformation and cloud modernisation initiatives.

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, offering interviews to candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role. You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress within a supportive environment that values employee wellbeing.

As part of a globally recognized company, you will join a diverse team committed to ethical business practices and continuous learning, helping clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their businesses.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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