HR Technology Solution Architect - Managing Consultant

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN CAPGEMINI

At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting-edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.

Join us in shaping the future of HR. At Capgemini Invent, we’re reimagining the future of HR through next-generation Operating Models, powered by Agentic AI and intelligent automation. Our approach integrates dynamic experience layers to deliver seamless, personalised employee journeys, transforming HR into a strategic enabler for business growth. Be part of a team that blends innovation, data and design to create human-centric solutions for the workforce of tomorrow.

YOUR ROLE

As an HR Technology Solution Architect at Managing Consultant level, you will lead the architecture workstream within complex HR transformations, translating business outcomes, employee experience, operating model and process requirements into coherent technology decisions. You will work across platforms, data, integration, identity, security and AI to shape solutions that are practical to deliver, scalable and sustainable.

You will provide hands-on design leadership from current-state assessment and technology strategy through vendor selection, solution design, mobilisation and implementation. Working with client, functional and technical teams, you will develop architecture artefacts, facilitate design decisions, manage dependencies and assure solution integrity across the transformation lifecycle.

In this role you will play a key role in:

• Translate HR transformation requirements into solution designs, connecting HR processes, employee experience and operating model requirements with appropriate platform, data and integration decisions.
• Design HR technology solutions across the enterprise ecosystem, covering core HR, payroll, talent, workforce management, employee service and experience, working across multiple platforms and vendors.
• Develop application, integration and data architecture, defining system interactions, information flows and key security and non-functional requirements in collaboration with specialist architecture teams.
• Assess and incorporate AI-enabled capabilities into solution design, considering use-case value, data readiness, integration, human oversight, privacy and responsible AI requirements.
• Support technology evaluation and architecture assurance, contributing to vendor assessments, design workshops, architecture artefacts and design reviews throughout delivery.

As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

• Business Development - Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal contribution - Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
• Learning & development - Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc.

YOUR PROFILE

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• Proven experience delivering solution architecture for HR technology, digital HR or workforce transformation programmes, with ownership of architecture deliverables or a major design workstream.
• Broad architecture capability across enterprise applications, cloud platforms, data, integration, identity, security and non-functional design, combined with a strong understanding of HR technology ecosystems.
• Experience assessing current landscapes, defining future-state architecture and roadmaps, and translating business and functional requirements into implementable designs.
• Practical understanding of AI-enabled transformation, including data quality, integration, governance, responsible AI and human oversight within HR services and workforce decisions.
• Strong consulting and facilitation skills, with the ability to structure complex problems, lead design workshops and communicate recommendations to business and technology stakeholders.
• Experience working across multidisciplinary teams and with technology vendors or implementation partners in a complex, matrixed environment.
• Experience contributing to proposals, estimates, client pitches, architecture methods or reusable assets.
• Relevant certification in enterprise or solution architecture, cloud, data, integration or a major HR technology platform is desirable; no single vendor certification is required.
• Training or certification in AI architecture, responsible AI, AI governance or data and AI risk is desirable.
• UK Security Clearance is desirable.

WHAT YOU’LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE?

At Capgemini we don’t just believe in inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work.

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. 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.

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. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

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.

CSR

We’re also focused on using tech to have a positive social impact. So, we’re working to reduce our own carbon footprint and improve everyone’s access to a digital world. It’s something we’re really serious about. In fact, we were even named as one of the world’s most ethical companies by the Ethisphere Institute for the 10th year. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a team that does the right thing.

Whilst you will have London, Manchester or Glasgow as an office base location, you must be fully flexible in terms of assignment location, as these roles may involve periods of time away from home at short notice.

We offer a remuneration package which includes flexible benefits options for you to choose to suit your own personal circumstances and a variable element dependent grade and on company and personal performance.

ABOUT CAPGEMINI

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, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.