Technical Director

Capgemini • Houston, TX

7h • Remote

About The Position

The Technical Director combines software engineering leadership, cloud infrastructure, enterprise architecture, and FinOps. The role leads multidisciplinary engineering teams, shapes modern software solutions, and helps enterprise clients build secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient digital platforms. The position is open to candidates in Austin or elsewhere in Texas, with remote work available across the United States.

Requirements

• Client-facing technology consulting experience focused on requirements analysis, technical strategy, and solution delivery.
• Extensive software-development experience, including leadership of cross-functional engineering organizations.
• Experience leading technical organizations of 15 or more people.
• Strong hands-on foundation in software development, application architecture, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise architecture.
• Experience managing the full software-development lifecycle from discovery and design through deployment and operations.
• Expertise in application architecture, APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, integration, data platforms, distributed systems, containers, and cloud-native architecture.
• Strong knowledge of public and hybrid cloud architecture, including compute, network, storage, containers, security, resilience, and operations.
• Five or more years of public-cloud architecture experience.
• Experience leading application modernization, cloud migration, platform engineering, infrastructure transformation, and DevSecOps programs.
• Proven leadership of complex application modernization, digital-product, infrastructure, or cloud-transformation programs.
• Demonstrated ability to design complex architectures and organize multidisciplinary teams to deliver them.
• Experience designing and operating FinOps programs aligned with FinOps Foundation principles.
• Experience implementing FinOps practices, including cost allocation, forecasting, optimization, and governance.
• Commercial solutioning experience encompassing delivery estimation, business-case development, and cost modeling.
• Knowledge of agile product delivery, DevSecOps, site reliability engineering, IT service management, and engineering-performance metrics.
• Excellent written, verbal, customer-facing, and executive communication skills.
• Strong commercial judgment, organizational leadership, coaching ability, and executive presence.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop software engineers, architects, engineering managers, platform engineers, infrastructure specialists, DevSecOps practitioners, and FinOps professionals.
• Set engineering goals, delivery expectations, technical standards, and performance metrics.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop technical talent through regular feedback and career planning.
• Translate customer business and product objectives into architecture strategies, technical roadmaps, and delivery plans.
• Lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, and cost-efficient software solutions.
• Own application architecture across cloud-native development, APIs, microservices, integration, data platforms, and distributed systems.
• Lead application modernization, legacy decomposition, cloud migration, platform engineering, and infrastructure transformation initiatives.
• Establish engineering practices for coding, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, security, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Implement engineering governance covering design reviews, code quality, technical debt, release management, and architecture assurance.
• Design and mature FinOps capabilities encompassing budgeting, forecasting, allocation, showback or chargeback, optimization, and governance.
• Connect software and infrastructure decisions to cloud consumption, business value, unit economics, and total cost of ownership.
• Perform technical due diligence, identify delivery and operational risks, and recommend mitigation options.
• Collaborate with product, UX, application, data, infrastructure, security, finance, procurement, and enterprise architecture stakeholders.
• Own multidisciplinary delivery plans when required and ensure predictable outcomes.
• Promote reusable platforms, automation, tools, and engineering standards across the organization.

Benefits

• Paid time off, including 12–25 vacation days depending on employee grade, company-paid holidays, personal days, and sick leave.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Retirement savings plans, such as a 401(k) in the U.S.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Employee assistance programs.
• The role may be eligible for variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions, depending on the position and applicable laws.

What This Job Offers

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