• Directing the design of AI-ready data foundations, platforms, and semantic layers that provide trusted business context and reliable access to enterprise information, and holding your architects to account on those decisions
• Assuring agentic architectures - interrogating how agents interact with enterprise systems and people, where they fail, how failure is detected, and what the cost curve looks like at scale
• Establishing the governance, security, responsible AI, and operational practices required to run AI in production under regulatory scrutiny

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

• Business Development - Leading proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitches, and Thought leadership that positions the organization at the forefront of modern Data & AI consulting.
• Internal contribution - Supporting practice development through offering development, recruitment, campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, operational excellence, and capability building across Data, AI, and Agentic AI.
• Learning & Development - Continuously developing your own expertise in emerging data and AI technologies and consulting leadership through training, certifications, and applied innovation, while fostering a culture of continuous learning across the practice.

YOUR PROFILE

We are looking for a T-shaped leader: broad enough to run an enterprise programme end to end, and deep enough in data and AI to be a genuine peer to the engineers and architects you lead. What matters most is your ability to connect business problems, regulatory constraints, and technology into outcomes clients can actually operate.

Essential criteria

• Programme leadership at scale. You have led complex, multi-workstream data or AI programmes with teams, and have been personally accountable for the outcome - not for a workstream within someone else’s programme.
• AI delivered into production, not just piloted. You can describe at least one AI or advanced analytics capability you took from concept into live operational use, including what went wrong along the way and how you dealt with it.
• Financial Services experience. Experience delivering for banking, insurance, or capital markets clients, with a solid working understanding of how these businesses operate, what regulation means for them, and what actually drives value. You can translate business requirements into delivery that produces measurable outcomes.
• Technical credibility. Sufficient hands-on background in data engineering, data platforms, machine learning, or Generative AI to be a genuine peer to your architects and engineers. You should be able to explain, without notes, how a RAG architecture fails in production and what you would do about it.
• Team leadership. Experience leading and coaching consultants, engineers, or architects within your programme, and building an inclusive, high-performing team culture people want to stay in.
• Consulting and commercial track record. Experience in a consulting or senior client-facing environment advising executive stakeholders and presenting to client governance boards, with a demonstrable record of originating and selling work.

Desirable experience

• Hands-on delivery experience with one or more major cloud and data platforms - Databricks, Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP, or Snowflake - and familiarity with the wider AI ecosystem including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google
• Experience designing semantic layers, data products, or knowledge platforms that serve both analytics and AI consumers
• Experience shaping agentic architectures - how AI agents interact securely with enterprise systems, data platforms, business processes, and human decision-makers
• Practical experience of responsible AI in production: model evaluation, lineage, monitoring, bias testing, privacy, and risk frameworks
• Published thought leadership, conference speaking, or a visible market profile in Data and AI

WHAT YOU’LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE?

As a Senior Manager, you will have the opportunity to work at the forefront of AI and analytics innovation, contributing to cutting-edge projects that shape industries. Your leadership will make a tangible impact on clients’ digital transformations while advancing your own career in a collaborative and inspiring environment.

We are delighted to have received the “Glassdoor Best Places to work UK’ accolade for 4 consecutive years, to see what it’s like to work at Capgemini Invent, visit our Glassdoor page

NEED TO KNOW

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

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 on grade and on company and personal performance.

ABOUT CAPGEMINI

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations 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