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Senior Cloud Architect

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world. 

Your Role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Architect to lead enterprise-scale cloud initiatives. This role involves designing secure, scalable, and cost-optimized solutions on AWS, driving cloud adoption strategies, and mentoring technical teams. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS services, automation, and governance, along with leadership experience in large transformation projects. 

Key Responsibilities: 

  • Define cloud architecture strategy aligned with business objectives and compliance requirements.
  • Lead end-to-end design and implementation of AWS-based solutions for complex workloads.
  • Drive migration, modernization, and optimization initiatives for applications and data platforms.
  • Establish cloud governance, security frameworks, and best practices using IAM, KMS, and Vault.
  • Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for multi-environment deployments.
  • Architect big data solutions leveraging EMR clusters and EMR Serverless.
  • Optimize cloud costs through advanced strategies (rightsizing, reserved instances, tagging policies).
  • Oversee CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Git for automated deployments.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentor teams, and collaborate with stakeholders on cloud roadmaps.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption for containerization (Docker) and serverless architectures.

 

Your Profile

  • 9+ years (with at least 6+ years in cloud architecture and AWS) 
  • AWS (EC2, S3, EMR, IAM, KMS, VPC, Lambda)
  • EMR (Cluster and Serverless)
  • Terraform (IaC)
  • Jenkins, Git (CI/CD)
  • Security and compliance (IAM, KMS)
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
  • Ability to define cloud adoption frameworks and governance models.
  • Experience in leading cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers.


What you'll love about working here

  • You can shape your career with us. We offer a range of career paths and internal opportunities within Capgemini group. You will also get personalized career guidance from our leaders.
  • You will get comprehensive wellness benefits including health checks, telemedicine, insurance with top-ups, elder care, partner coverage or new parent support via flexible work.
  • At Capgemini, you can work on cutting-edge projects in tech and engineering with industry leaders or create solutions to overcome societal and environmental challenges.

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.
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Ref. code:  493310
Posted on:  9 Sept 2026
Experience Level:  Experienced Professionals
Contract Type:  Permanent
Location: 

Chennai (ex Madras), IN

Brand:  Capgemini
Professional Community:  Software Engineering

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