Remote Cloud & Architecture Director — Lead Teams & FinOps

Capgemini

Mesquite (TX)

Remote

USD 139,000 - 226,000

Full time

20 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Retirement savings plans (401(k))

Life and disability insurance

Employee assistance programs

Job summary

Capgemini seeks an experienced engineering leader to shape software solutions and lead multidisciplinary teams across cloud-native architectures, APIs, and data platforms. You will guide architectural roadmaps, drive modernization, and ensure secure, scalable outcomes for enterprise clients.

You will collaborate with product, UX, security, and finance teams to align technical decisions with business value, optimize cloud spend, and mentor engineering talent in a global delivery environment.

Qualifications

Client-facing technology consulting experience focused on requirements analysis, technical strategy, and solution delivery.
Extensive software-development experience, including leadership of crossfunctional engineering organizations.
Expertise in application architecture, APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, integration, data platforms, and distributed systems.
Strong knowledge of public and hybrid cloud architecture, including compute, network, storage, containers, security, resilience, and operations.
Experience leading application modernization, cloud migration, platform engineering, infrastructure transformation, and DevSecOps programs.
Experience designing and operating FinOps programs aligned with FinOps Foundation principles.
Commercial solutioning experience encompassing delivery estimation, business-case development, and cost modeling.
Excellent written, verbal, customer-facing, and executive communication skills.

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.