Senior Cloud Architect
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Capgemini
- Chennai
- Experienced Professionals
- Full Time
- FS
- Software Engineering
Posted September 10, 2026 applications close October 10, 2026
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Job Description
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.