Job Title: Solution Architect – Confluent Kafka with Mongo DB Experience

Location: Knutsford / Northampton /London UK

About the Job you are considering:

The Cloud Solution Architect Consultant is responsible for shaping and designing end‑to‑end cloud solutions that meet business, security, and operational needs. In this consultative role, you will provide strategic architectural guidance using AWS cloud platform, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and future‑ready design principles. You will partner with stakeholders to define solution direction, advise delivery teams throughout implementation, and ensure that architectures remain scalable, secure, and business‑aligned. 

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:

•  Hands on Solution Architect with strong expertise in Kafka Confluent Kafka MongoDB AWS APIs and Operational Data Stores ODS able to operate confidently across both high level architecture and low-level design and implementation.
• Engage with business and technical stakeholders to understand goals, clarify requirements, and translate them into purposeful cloud architecture recommendations. 
• Present architectural decisions and trade-offs with clarity and intent, enabling stakeholders to make informed, value‑driven decisions. 
• Support governance and review boards with concise, consultative insights that ensure alignment to strategy, standards, and enterprise priorities. 
• Guide engineering and DevOps teams with ongoing coaching on cloud best practices, CI/CD approaches, and emerging technologies. 
• Refine architectural documentation (HLD/LLD) as solutions to mature, ensuring designs remain relevant, secure, and optimized over time. 
• Collaborate closely with teams to resolve complex technical issues, using each engagement as an opportunity to uplift engineering capability and improve solution quality. 
• Promote continuous learning by championing cloud modernization, automation, and practices that enhance speed, reliability, and maintainability. 
• Design secure, scalable, and future‑ready cloud solutions that anticipate enterprise growth and evolving technology landscapes. 
• Ensure alignment with cloud landing zones, enterprise standards, security frameworks, and compliance requirements, creating architectures that support long‑term resilience. 
• Implement robust security patterns including IAM, encryption, network segmentation, and threat modeling to protect tomorrow’s digital assets. 
• Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives, shaping architectures that position the enterprise for innovation, agility, and sustainable transformation. 

Your Skills:

• 6 years of software engineering experience including 3 years hands on with Confluent Apache Kafka.
• Experience designing and building distributed streaming applications using Confluent Platform components.
• Strong understanding of event driven architecture concepts event streaming event sourcing Pub Sub stream processing.
• Experience with AvroJSONProtobuf schema evolution and Schema Registry.
• Integration experience with backend systems such as SQLNoSQL databases APIs and cloud data platforms.
• Familiarity with API design data modelling and microservice integration patterns.
• Working knowledge of AWS.
• Strong understanding of clean code reusable component design and Agile DevOps practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Certifications like Azure Architect Expert, AWS SA Pro, or GCP Architect preferred. 

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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