Microsoft AI Lead Cloud Engineer

YOUR ROLE

Join a dedicated team of passionate cloud and architecture enthusiasts within our Cloud and Custom Applications practice. Starting small a few years ago, our team has experienced rapid growth and continues to expand. We have a strong focus on Hybrid and Multicloud Platforms and are proud to offer our clients the most cutting-edge tailor-made solutions available in the market. Be part of our success story and contribute to transforming the way we serve our clients with powerful Cloud solutions!

As a Microsoft AI Cloud Solution Architect, you will play a key role in helping our clients design, build and scale AI‑powered cloud solutions on the Microsoft stack. You act as a trusted advisor for both business and IT stakeholders, translating business needs into secure, scalable and cost‑effective AI architectures within the Microsoft ecosystem.

You guide clients from strategy to implementation, ensuring solutions are production-ready, responsible, and aligned with enterprise standards.

Key responsibilities

• Design end‑to‑end AI and machine learning architectures on Azure, covering data ingestion, model development, deployment, and integration with enterprise systems.
• Help leverage Microsoft’s AI ecosystem (Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Services, Responsible AI capabilities) to create business value.
• Translate business needs into secure, compliant, and cost‑optimized AI solutions, and advise clients on AI adoption, cloud migration, and modernization.
• Define and promote Responsible AI principles and governance across architectures and implementations.
• Lead proofs of concept, architecture workshops, hackathons, and support presales activities (solution design, estimations, client presentations).
• Stay up to date with Microsoft AI and cloud innovations, share knowledge internally, and coach junior architects and engineers.

YOUR PROFILE

• Proven experience as an Enterprise Cloud / AI Architect, owning solutions end‑to‑end and leading stakeholders from design through delivery.
• Deep expertise in Azure architecture and cloud‑native design, including microservices, APIs, event‑driven integration, landing zones, security, and governance.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, agentic AI patterns (e.g. Semantic Kernel / Microsoft Agent Framework), Python and C#/.NET, plus CI/CD, MLOps/LLMOps and IaC.
• Client‑centric, able to communicate complex concepts clearly and collaborate effectively with technical and business stakeholders.
• Fluent in Dutch and English; French is an asset.

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE

• At Capgemini Belgium we offer flexibility in more than one way: next to our hybrid way of working, where we offer you can work 70% from home, we also offer our flex abroad program. With this program you can work up to 45 days abroad, this to maintain a good work-life balance.

• Next to this we also offer following additional benefits:
  • Net expenses
  • Company car or mobility budget (whatever works best for you)
  • Health insurance
  • Meal vouchers
  • Pension plan
  • Eco vouchers from €250/year.
  • A flex plan where you can buy extra days off, update your insurance or buy home office supplies.
  • 32 vacation days + Bank holidays.

ABOUT CAPGEMINI