Company: Capgemini
Location: Manchester
Posted: May 13th, 2026
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Architect who wants to apply their skills and experience within an exciting and vibrant Managed Services organisation.
Operating within Capgeminis modern pod-based delivery model, you will act as a senior technical authority, owning the integrity, reliability, and evolution of cloud platforms in live service. Youll thrive at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and operations, while acting as a trusted advisor to clients undergoing significant cloud and digital transformation. The strength of our Pods lies within our people, fostered by a supportive team culture.
As a Cloud Architect, you will thrive on having Design Authority for the relevant Service Line aligned to your expertise. You will enjoy being the focal point for ensuring its technical integrity. Being part of an enthusiastic Business Technologist community will enable you to maintain awareness of the latest technologies and innovations within the Capgemini Portfolio and apply these to your technology domains. You will also provide inspiration and act as a role model for a talented and enthusiastic team of Engineers in your Service Line.
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.
As a senior technical authority for cloud platform, you will contribute to both operational and project-based activities alongside fellow Consultants, Engineers, and Analysts. You will be empowered to:
Own end-to-end delivery of cloud managed services, meeting SLAs, customer outcomes, and governing change and service acceptance.
Provide technical leadership for the service line, ensuring architectural integrity, standards adherence, and effective governance.
Define and maintain cloud blueprints, reference architectures, roadmaps, and lifecycle standards to ensure scalable and operable solutions.
Drive platform reliability, performance, and optimisation through SRE principles, automation, and continuous improvement.
Act as a trusted advisor across clients and internal stakeholders, supporting live services, projects, bids, and mentoring engineers while ensuring security, compliance, and contractual alignment.
You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.
Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Governments Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:
Please opt in during the application process.
To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.
To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality. Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.
If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service).
Flexibility to work your way
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.
Your wellbeing
Youd 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.
Shape your path
You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgeminis 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.
Shared energy
Youll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. Youll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.
Growing clients businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, youll 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 whats possible. Its why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the worlds leading businesses, and its how youll 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, youll build the skills you want. Youll 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.
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 over 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 2025 global revenues of 22.5 billion. Make it real | www.capgemini.com