CTO‑Style Cloud Architect: Multi‑Cloud Strategy

Capgemini; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 94,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plans (401k)

Paid time off

Job summary

Capgemini in Irvine, CA is seeking a senior, client-facing Lead Principal Cloud Architect to serve onsite as a trusted CTO-style advisor. The role defines, governs, and communicates enterprise cloud, application, security, and infrastructure architecture strategy across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.

You will translate the client’s priorities into executable roadmaps, reference architectures, governance guardrails, and transformation opportunities, providing architectural leadership during

Qualifications

• 10+ years in infrastructure, cloud, platform engineering, enterprise architecture, or technology transformation.
• 5+ years in senior or lead architecture roles delivering enterprise-scale solutions.
• Expert-level hands-on with at least one major cloud platform, preferably GCP, plus strong working knowledge of Azure and AWS services, architecture patterns, governance, security, and hybrid connectivity.
• Proven experience defining cloud strategy, target-state architecture, reference architectures, standards, governance guardrails, and architecture review practices.
• Demonstrated experience leading cloud migration, modernization, application dependency analysis, landing-zone design, and operational-readiness planning.
• Strong understanding of secure cloud architecture including IAM, zero trust, network security, encryption, key management, secrets management, vulnerability management, compliance alignment, and cloud-native security tooling.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state architecture across GCP, Azure, AWS, on‑premises, and edge scenarios; produce standards, roadmaps, landing-zone patterns, migration paths, modernization approaches, and executive-level trade-off recommendations.
• Act as a senior technology advisor to client stakeholders; translate business priorities into architecture priorities; identify consulting opportunities and transformation initiatives.
• Ensure architecture decisions account for application modernization, secure-by-design principles, identity, network segmentation, data protection, compliance, platform engineering, operational resilience, and infrastructure integration dependencies.
• Create and maintain reference architectures, blueprints, standards, guardrails, reusable modules, and architecture review criteria.
• Lead discovery with business, application, infrastructure, operations, and InfoSec teams; convert ambiguous needs into architecture requirement documents and implementation-ready guidance.
• Review infrastructure and cloud submissions from MSPs, vendors, and delivery partners for conformance to enterprise standards, security expectations, and operational readiness.
• Provide hands-on architectural leadership during incidents, problem investigations, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action planning.
• Assess new tools, platforms, cloud services, and automation approaches; evaluate fit for purpose, risk, total cost, security, interoperability, and supportability.
• Drive IaC, automation, and platform engineering; embed FinOps and cost governance into design decisions and operating models.
• Communicate architecture decisions, risks, dependencies, and roadmap options clearly to technical teams and executives.
• Capgemini leverage and ecosystem connection to bring specialist support quickly when needed.

Skills

Cloud architecture

CTO advisory

Multi-cloud

Architectural leadership

Cloud migration

Security architecture

IaC/Automation

Incident leadership

Cost governance

Client-facing

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

ARM/Bicep

Pulumi

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Jenkins

Job description

Capgemini in Irvine, CA is seeking a senior, client-facing Lead Principal Cloud Architect to serve onsite as a trusted CTO-style advisor. The role defines, governs, and communicates enterprise cloud, application, security, and infrastructure architecture strategy across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.

You will translate the client’s priorities into executable roadmaps, reference architectures, governance guardrails, and transformation opportunities, providing architectural leadership during