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You will apply your expertise in architecture and solution development, along with strong storytelling, presentation, and business communication skills, to create compelling and client-focused proposals.\nIn this role, you will collaborate as part of cross-functional solution teams to develop cost effective and deliverable solutions from concept through to implementation, supporting both Managed Service (Transition and Run) and Project (Transformation) requirements.\nHybrid 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.\nYour role\nDesign with purpose: Create secure, scalable, and future-ready infrastructure and networking solutions tailored to each client’s unique needs.\nStay ahead: Maintain deep knowledge of infrastructure technologies-compute, storage, networking, and virtualisation-and how they can be applied creatively to achieve client outcomes.\nEngage and inspire: Build trusted relationships with clients, listen actively to their challenges, and clearly communicate how your solutions bring value.\nCraft compelling proposals: Contribute to high-quality bids with clear technical documentation, architecture visuals, and cost models that reflect both innovation and practicality.\nChampion compliance: Ensure all solutions meet UK government regulations and security standards, including GDPR and NCSC guidelines.\nCollaborate across teams: Work closely with sales, delivery, and engineering colleagues to ensure smooth transitions from design to implementation.\nYou can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini, striving for equity, diversity and inclusion is part of everyday life, and will be part of your working reality. We have built an inclusive and welcoming environment, for everyone.\nYour skills and experience\nProven experience designing infrastructure and networking solutions, including virtualisation and software-defined technologies.\nA strong track record of contributing to pre-sales proposals, with clear, engaging technical documentation and cost modelling.\nConfidence in engaging with clients and translating complex technical ideas into accessible, relatable language.\nA collaborative mindset and strong problem-solving skills-able to think creatively and work well with others to find the best solution.\nExcellent communication skills and a desire to contribute to a supportive, inclusive team culture.\nWe are a Disability Confident Employer\nCapgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. 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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.\nYour wellbeing\nYou’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2023. 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.\nShape your path\nYou 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.\nShared energy\nYou’ll 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. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.\nWhy should you consider Capgemini?\nGrowing 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. 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