US_West | Infrastructure Architect_L4

Position Title: Enterprise Architect - Multi Cloud

Location: Irvine, CA - Onsite 

Basic Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience 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 experience with at least one major cloud platform, preferably GCP, plus strong working knowledge of Azure and AWS services.
• Proven experience defining cloud strategy, target-state architecture, reference architectures, standards, governance guardrails, and architecture review practices.
• Strong understanding of secure cloud architecture including IAM, zero trust, network security, encryption, key management, and cloud-native security tooling.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep, Pulumi, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or comparable platforms.
• Ability to lead architecture conversations across applications, security, infrastructure, operations, product/application owners, executives, delivery partners, and client stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness and ability to work onsite in Irvine, CA.

Required Skills:

• Cloud architecture strategy and target-state design
• Client-facing CTO advisory / executive influence
• GCP expertise with Azure/AWS breadth
• Application, security, and infrastructure integration
• Cloud security / secure-by-design
• Architecture governance and standards
• Infrastructure as Code / automation
• Migration and modernization planning
• Major incident / RCA architecture leadership
• MSP / partner governance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Formal architect-level cloud certifications: Google Professional Cloud Architect, Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, or comparable credentials.
• Experience leading or materially supporting a Cloud Center of Excellence, Enterprise Architecture review board, Design Authority, or comparable architecture governance model.
• Experience with application modernization patterns including containers, Kubernetes/GKE/AKS/EKS, microservices, API management, serverless, event-driven architecture, and platform engineering.
• Experience with cloud security architecture, CSPM/CWPP, SIEM integrations, SASE/SSE concepts, Zero Trust, and regulatory/compliance frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, SOX, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, or equivalent client-specific controls.
• Experience with FinOps, cloud cost optimization, chargeback/showback, tagging strategy, budget guardrails, and cloud economics.
• Experience with observability, AIOps, SRE practices, resilience engineering, DR/BCP, performance engineering, and Day-2 managed-service operating models.
• Familiarity with enterprise infrastructure services such as identity providers, DNS, DHCP, PKI, network connectivity, data center modernization, and hybrid integration.
• Familiarity with enterprise frameworks such as TOGAF, ITIL, NIST, CSA CCM, Well-Architected frameworks, or comparable industry standards.
• Trusted-advisor consulting experience with ability to identify, shape, and qualify downstream project, consulting, and transformation opportunities.

Role and responsibilities:

• Define, govern, and communicate enterprise cloud, application, security, and infrastructure architecture strategy across multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
• Translate client’s business, security, and operational priorities into executable roadmaps, reference architectures, governance guardrails, project intake artifacts, and transformation opportunities.
• Create a single point of architectural leadership for cloud and hybrid infrastructure strategy.
• Build day-to-day credibility with client technology, security, application, and infrastructure leaders through in-person presence.
• Identify unstated needs and strategic opportunities that may not surface through remote-only governance.
• Accelerate architecture decision-making by facilitating workshops, whiteboarding options, and validating trade-offs with stakeholders in real time.
• Provide visible senior leadership during major incidents, root-cause analysis, technology evaluations, and transformation planning.
• Act as a senior technology advisor to client stakeholders; translate business priorities into architecture priorities.
• 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.
• Provide hands-on architectural leadership during major 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 operational supportability.
• Drive adoption of infrastructure-as-code, policy-as-code, CI/CD, reusable automation modules, configuration standards, lifecycle management, and self-service patterns to improve consistency and speed.
• Embed cost-aware design practices, tagging standards, consumption governance, forecasting, and optimization recommendations into architecture decisions and operating models.
• Communicate architecture decisions, risks, dependencies, roadmap options, and recommendations clearly to both technical teams and executive stakeholders.
• Use Capgemini standards, best practices, delivery accelerators, cloud communities, partner relationships, and internal expert networks to bring the right specialist support quickly when needed.

Job description:

Capgemini is seeking a senior, client-facing Lead Principal Cloud Architect to serve onsite in Irvine, CA as a trusted CTO-style advisor to the client. The role will define, govern, and communicate enterprise cloud, application, security, and infrastructure architecture strategy across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. The architect will translate the client’s business, security, and operational priorities into executable roadmaps, reference architectures, governance guardrails, project intake artifacts, and transformation opportunities.

This position should create a single point of architectural leadership for cloud and hybrid infrastructure strategy while also acting as a window into the client’s forward-looking technology agenda. The resource should help Capgemini identify and shape adjacent demand across application modernization, cyber/security architecture, infrastructure modernization, cloud governance, automation, FinOps, observability, operating model improvement, and technology transformation.

The contract language frames the Lead Architect as providing thought leadership in forward-looking technology discussions and hands-on technical leadership to guide major incident resolution, root-cause investigations, and assessment of new tools and services. This job requirement preserves that expectation and expands it into practical responsibilities, skills, and success measures for sourcing and interviewing.