Capgemini - Cloud Architecture - Director

Capgemini • Dallas, TX

1d • $159,375 - $311,680

About The Position

Capgemini is seeking a Director to lead its cloud architecture portfolio. The role sets technical direction for clients’ major platform decisions and ensures architecture supports business strategy. It combines executive advisory, technical leadership, and business growth, including shaping major pursuits, building hyperscaler partnerships, and developing architecture talent.

The Director will advise senior client executives, shape and sell cloud modernization, platform, and AI-ready infrastructure programs, and direct multi-year, multi-cloud transformations while accounting for sovereignty, resilience, and regulatory constraints. The role also provides design authority across engagements and leads client workshops on platform decisions, tradeoffs, and investment sequencing.

The position is part of Capgemini’s AI-enabled consulting model. The Director is expected to apply AI literacy and AI-augmented ways of working, collaborate across strategy, technology, data, and design, and support responsible AI practices. The role also includes creating reusable architectures and accelerators, strengthening hyperscaler partnerships, and building architecture capability 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.
• Solid understanding of responsible AI principles, including ethics, privacy, security, and governance.
• Curiosity and a continuous learning mindset around emerging AI capabilities and practical client applications.

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.
• Collaborate across strategy, technology, data, and design to enable AI-driven solutions.

Benefits

• Paid time off, including vacation of 12–25 days depending on employee 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.
• The role may be eligible for variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions, depending on position and applicable laws.

What This Job Offers

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