Consultant/Senior Consultant - Cloud & AI Strategy

Capgemini Invent

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.

Your Role

As a Cloud & AI Strategy Consultant at Capgemini Invent, you will help organisations move beyond cloud adoption – shaping how they modernise their applications, data and platforms to become AI-ready, and connecting technology choices to business value.

In this role you will play a key role in:

Cloud and AI modernisation strategy:

Shaping strategies that go beyond migration – modernising applications, data and platforms so clients can scale AI, unlock innovation and reduce cost and risk.

Multi-cloud and workload strategy:

Advising multi-cloud and hybrid strategies, workload placement, portability and sovereignty, and how AWS, Azure and GCP estates fit together into one coherent enterprise picture.

Executive storytelling:

Bringing strategy, operating model, economics and architecture perspectives together into clear, compelling narratives that senior executives can act on.

Key Expectations From This Role Include

As a Consultant:

lead a stream of work and produce high-quality deliverables, providing key input to shape the strategic direction and support the design of propositions.

As a Senior Consultant:

design and lead projects / multiple streams, taking ownership for elements of the proposition.

Role

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

About

You're passionate about helping organisations transform through technology and thrive in a fast-paced environment and matrixed organisation. We're looking for individuals with experience in some of the following areas:

• Experience across two or more of: cloud strategy, application and cloud modernisation, cloud operating model, FinOps and cloud economics, or multi-cloud/hybrid strategy – for large or mid-sized organisations.
• A genuine AI angle: an informed point of view on how generative and agentic AI are reshaping cloud strategy, and hands-on curiosity in applying AI tools to your own ways of working.
• Structured problem-solving and first-class communication skills – able to turn ambiguity into crisp storylines and executive-ready material.
• Currently working in a major consulting firm, and/or in industry with a consulting background, with experience of proposition building and business development contribution.
• Proven ability to be successful in a matrixed organisation, and to enlist support and commitment from peers in selling and delivering consulting solutions.
• Certifications in relation to AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform are desirable.

What You'll Love About Working Here

No matter the project or customer, your work will have a meaningful impact on society, businesses and lives. It’s really rewarding. And it’s also really varied. You’ll potentially work on a huge variety of projects (some larger than others), so you could gain lots of experience in a short amount of time.

Client engagements give you the opportunity to work with our leadership and experienced consulting management, where you can learn from them, challenge them and accelerate your hands-on experience, delivery capability and industry insights. There are many opportunities like monthly team drinks to connect face-to-face with the wider team over a few drinks in the city. There are regular leadership connect sessions that will give you a different, more relaxed setting to meet up in the office to hear from the leadership, meet colleagues and discuss the trends and insights within the market. Team days are always a chance to connect with the team, have fun and learn something new.

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 Diversity & Inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Active Inclusion 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.

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 350,000 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