Chief Engineer / Architect - Nuclear

Our Offer

Provide technical leadership and systems architecture expertise, acting as a trusted advisor to clients and inspiring both customer and delivery teams to achieve strategic outcomes.

Assess client engineering, integration, and digital capabilities at programme and whole-plant level, defining transformation roadmaps and future-state architectures aligned to business and operational objectives..

Your role

Provide technical leadership and systems architecture expertise, acting as a trusted advisor to clients and inspiring both customer and delivery teams to achieve strategic outcomes.

Assess client engineering, integration, and digital capabilities at programme and whole-plant level, defining transformation roadmaps and future-state architectures aligned to business and operational objectives.

Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, including Design Authority leads and executive leaders, supporting business development, discovery activities, and early-stage project delivery.

Deliver expert guidance across the full nuclear lifecycle, including design, safety, manufacturing, construction, and operations, with strong knowledge of nuclear regulatory requirements, safety cases, hazard management, verification, validation, and compliance.

Apply digital engineering approaches such as MBSE, PLM, digital thread, and digital twin technologies to enhance programme integration, assurance, governance, and delivery performance.

Support successful solution delivery by working closely with multidisciplinary teams, providing technical oversight, resolving delivery challenges, and ensuring projects achieve their intended outcomes

Your profile

• Develop and strengthen client relationships by promoting the organisation’s nuclear engineering, systems integration, and digital engineering capabilities through thought leadership, industry events, and strategic engagement activities.
• Identify and pursue new business opportunities across civil nuclear, defence nuclear, SMR, and fusion programmes, creating and executing capture strategies to secure growth.
• Engage with clients to understand complex transformation challenges and design integrated solutions leveraging multidisciplinary teams and capabilities across the wider business.
• Influence and shape client requirements at an early stage, positioning the organisation as a trusted partner and maximising win probability for future opportunities.
• Lead the development of high-quality technical proposals, defining programme-level integration strategies, interface management, configuration control, and digital engineering approaches.
• Support early project delivery and consultancy engagements, providing expertise in programme integration, systems governance, risk management, and design authority functions while growing significant revenue opportunities.

What you'll love about working here

• Hybrid working
• Open access to digital learning platforms
• Active employee networks promoting diversity, equity and inclusion like OutFront, CapAbility or Women@Capgemini

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.

Need to know

• All roles will require a level of security clearance; This role requires SC clearance
• You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusivefuture is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We havebuilt a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.

• Hybrid working
• Open access to digital learning platforms
• Active employee networks promoting diversity, equity and inclusion like OutFront, CapAbility or Women@Capgemini

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.

Need to know

• All roles will require a level of security clearance; This role requires SC clearance
• You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusivefuture is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We havebuilt a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.