Capgemini - Cloud Architecture - Director

Capgemini • Chicago, NY

7d • $159

About The Position

The Cloud Architecture Director will lead Capgemini’s cloud architecture portfolio, setting technical direction for clients’ major platform decisions and ensuring architecture supports business strategy. The role combines executive advisory, technical leadership, and business growth, including shaping major pursuits, developing hyperscaler partnerships, and building architecture talent. The position is part of an AI-enabled consulting model that uses analytics, automation, and generative AI to augment human judgment and help clients reimagine how work gets done.

The Director will advise senior technology executives, shape and sell cloud modernization and AI-ready infrastructure programs, and establish architecture direction for multi-year, multi-cloud transformations. The role also provides technical oversight across engagements, leads executive workshops, creates reusable architectures and accelerators, and develops technical leaders across the practice.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in cloud and enterprise architecture, with significant consulting or advisory leadership.
• Demonstrated sales and account growth track record, or clear trajectory, in complex technical programs.
• Recognized depth in at least one hyperscaler and credibility across multi-cloud and hybrid estates.
• Strong grasp of data and AI platform architecture and its infrastructure implications.
• Executive presence and ability to explain complex architecture tradeoffs in business terms.
• Strong people leadership and ability to scale architecture capability.
• Strong AI literacy, including core AI and generative AI concepts and their application to enterprise transformation.
• Experience working in AI-augmented ways to enhance research, analysis, and solution development.
• Understanding of responsible AI principles, including ethics, privacy, security, and governance.
• Curiosity and a continuous learning mindset about emerging AI capabilities and their practical application in client environments.

Nice To Haves

• Professional-level cloud architect certification(s).

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior architecture advisor to CIOs, CTOs, and enterprise architecture leaders.
• Shape and sell large cloud modernization, platform, and AI-ready infrastructure programs.
• Set architecture direction for multi-year, multi-cloud transformations, including sovereignty, resilience, and regulatory constraints.
• Provide technical oversight and design authority across a portfolio of engagements.
• Lead C-suite workshops on platform choices, tradeoffs, and investment sequencing.
• Build reference architectures, accelerators, and hyperscaler partnerships that scale delivery.
• Develop architects and technical leaders across the practice.
• Identify and support AI-enabled opportunities that improve business outcomes and delivery effectiveness.
• Work across strategy, technology, data, and design to enable AI-driven solutions.

Benefits

• Paid time off, including vacation of 12–25 days depending on grade, company-paid holidays, personal days, and sick leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada.
• Retirement savings plans, such as 401(k) in the U.S. or RRSP in Canada.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed