Job Role
FullStack Solution Architect
Location
London, UK
Overview
We are seeking experienced FullStack Solution Architect with strong expertise in the Banking domain. The role will oversee the planning, execution, and successful delivery of projects.
Hybrid Working
The work will vary day to day, blending Company offices, client sites, and home; you will not be able to work at home 100% of the time.
Your Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Full Stack Solution Lead with strong expertise in modern UI frameworks and solid backend development skills. You will lead the development of innovative web and mobile applications, ensuring high performance, scalability, and maintainability. You will play a key role in developing scalable, secure, user‑centric web applications, combining strong front‑end skills with back‑end integration expertise. You will collaborate with designers, architects, and product owners to create high-performance solutions for enterprise clients. You will act as a trusted advisor and technology leader, responsible for designing and delivering scalable, secure, and future‑proof digital solutions for clients across banking, insurance, wealth, and capital markets. This role requires front‑end experience design and full stack engineering skills and combines deep FSI industry knowledge with hands‑on experience in designing complex enterprise and customer‑facing solutions—leveraging cloud platforms, APIs, microservices, data, and emerging GenAI & Agentic AI technologies. You will play a leading role in pre‑sales initiatives, architecture governance, and end‑to‑end solution delivery within the practice and with clients.
Solution Architecture
- Lead design, solution definition and delivery of full‑stack front‑end (mobile and web) solutions for enterprise clients.
- Translate business requirements into robust, scalable, and secure technical designs, ensuring alignment with client architecture standards, regulatory expectations, and digital transformation goals.
- Experience with distributed and event‑driven systems.
- Develop a broader perspective in solution design, along with presentation skills and stakeholder management.
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Architects, and Engineering teams to define high‑level and low‑level solution designs.
- Analyse business requirements and convert them into functional, technical, and integration design specifications.
- Ensure solutions adhere to client architecture frameworks, security protocols, data governance, and regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, PSD2, FCA guidelines).
- Work across cross‑functional squads to design end‑to‑end journeys across channels, APIs, applications, and backend systems.
- Support design reviews, feasibility assessments, effort estimates, and dependency mapping.
- Provide guidance during development, SIT/UAT, and production rollout to ensure alignment with approved designs.
- Identify technical risks and propose mitigations while ensuring design scalability, performance, and resilience.
- Maintain solution documentation, sequence diagrams, integration contracts, and data flow mappings.
Delivery
- Oversee and mentor engineering teams, ensuring delivery excellence and adherence to best practices.
- Develop and maintain responsive front‑end applications using modern frameworks.
- Collaborate with UX/UI designers to deliver intuitive and accessible user experiences.
- Implement backend services and APIs to support front‑end functionality.
- Ensure application security, scalability, and compliance with client standards.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and contribute to continuous improvement.
- Product ownership including backlog prioritisation based on use case business value.
Market Development
- Collaborate with sales, account management, practice and COE teams to identify and pursue digital transformation opportunities.
- Support pre‑sales activities (RFIs/RFPs, proposals) including solution shaping, estimating, scoping, and bid defence for digital transformation opportunities.
- Articulate complex technical concepts and solution value to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders, including C‑level executives.
- Act as a thought leader within front‑end community, contributing to practice innovation and capability development.
Technical Skills & Competencies
- Strong developmental skills and technical leadership across front‑end (React, Angular, Vue).
- Strong developmental skills and technical leadership across back‑end (Node.js, Java, Spring Boot, .NET, RESTful APIs, microservices).
- Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and CI/CD tools (GitLab, Jenkins).
- Responsive design principles.
- Expertise in JavaScript (ES6+)/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, and modern frameworks (React preferred, Angular/Vue a plus).
- Experience with at least one leading Node framework (Express.js, Nest.js, Hapi.js).
- Experience with at least one modern front‑end framework (Nest.js, Remix.js).
- Deploy solutions on cloud platforms and familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD, and containers (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Knowledge of APIs, microservices, GraphQL, and integration patterns.
- Mobile architecture expertise (native iOS/Android, Flutter, React Native) – good to have.
- AI‑assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) experience to enhance productivity and code quality.
- UX/UI principles, wireframing and accessibility standards – good to have.
- Agile methodologies (Scrum, SAFe).
- Kafka/MQ development experience – good to have.
Soft Skills & Competencies
- Multitask across practice & team management, business development, engineering capabilities and billable engagements.
- Exceptional interpersonal, communication, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong commercial acumen and results‑oriented leadership.
- High integrity, creativity, empathy, emotional intelligence, and team empowerment mindset.
- Foster collaboration across disciplines and geographies with analytical approach.
- Resilience and adaptability in fast‑moving, client‑centric environments.
- Stakeholder expectation management.
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.
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