Managing Cloud Infrastructure Architect

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. Contract alignment - 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.

Why the role should be onsite:

• 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.

Your Role:

• Enterprise cloud and hybrid strategy: Define target-state architecture across GCP, Azure, AWS, on-premises, and relevant edge/distributed scenarios. Produce standards, roadmaps, landing-zone patterns, migration paths, modernization approaches, and executive-level trade-off recommendations.
• Client-facing CTO advisory: Act as a senior technology advisor to client stakeholders; translate business priorities into architecture priorities; identify where Capgemini can help shape projects, consulting opportunities, and transformation initiatives.
• Applications, security, and infrastructure alignment: 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.
• Architecture governance and standards: Create and maintain reference architectures, blueprints, standards, guardrails, reusable modules, and architecture review criteria. Centralize architecture knowledge from SOPs, legacy standards, MSP submissions, and multiple repositories.
• Project intake and architecture requirements: Lead discovery with business, application, infrastructure, operations, and InfoSec teams. Convert ambiguous needs into clear architecture requirement documents, decision records, intake artifacts, and implementation-ready guidance.
• MSP and partner design review: Review infrastructure and cloud submissions from MSPs, vendors, and delivery partners for compliance with enterprise standards, security expectations, operational readiness, and hidden integration risks.
• Technical leadership during incidents and RCA: Provide hands-on architectural leadership during major incidents, problem investigations, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action planning where architecture, reliability, observability, or operational design are contributing factors.
• Technology evaluation and innovation: Assess new tools, platfo