Technical Director

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Location
Austin, TX or anywhere in TX preferred. Open to Remote US.
About The Job You're Considering
This role combines software engineering leadership, cloud infrastructure, enterprise architecture, and FinOps. The successful candidate will lead multidisciplinary engineering teams, shape modern software solutions, and help enterprise clients build secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient digital platforms.
Your Role
Key Responsibilities
Lead and develop software engineers, architects, engineering managers, platform engineers, infrastructure specialists, DevSecOps practitioners, and FinOps professionals.
Set engineering goals, delivery expectations, technical standards, and performance metrics.
Recruit, mentor, and develop technical talent through regular feedback and career planning.
Translate customer business and product objectives into architecture strategies, technical roadmaps, and delivery plans.
Lead the design and delivery of scalable, secure, resilient, maintainable, and cost-efficient software solutions.
Own application architecture across cloud-native development, APIs, microservices, integration, data platforms, and distributed systems.
Lead application modernization, legacy decomposition, cloud migration, platform engineering, and infrastructure transformation initiatives.
Establish engineering practices for coding, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, security, reliability, and operational readiness.
Implement engineering governance covering design reviews, code quality, technical debt, release management, and architecture assurance.
Design and mature FinOps capabilities encompassing budgeting, forecasting, allocation, showback or chargeback, optimization, and governance.
Connect software and infrastructure decisions to cloud consumption, business value, unit economics, and total cost of ownership.
Perform technical due diligence, identify delivery and operational risks, and recommend mitigation options.
Collaborate with product, UX, application, data, infrastructure, security, finance, procurement, and enterprise architecture stakeholders.
Own multidisciplinary delivery plans when required and ensure predictable outcomes.
Promote reusable platforms, automation, tools, and engineering standards across the organization.
Your Skills And Experience
Ideal Background
Client-facing technology consulting experience focused on requirements analysis, technical strategy, and solution delivery.
Extensive software-development experience, including leadership of crossfunctional engineering organizations.
Expertise in application architecture, APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, integration, data platforms, and distributed systems.
Strong knowledge of public and hybrid cloud architecture, including compute, network, storage, containers, security, resilience, and operations.
Experience leading application modernization, cloud migration, platform engineering, infrastructure transformation, and DevSecOps programs.
Experience designing and operating FinOps programs aligned with FinOps Foundation principles.
Commercial solutioning experience encompassing delivery estimation, business-case development, and cost modeling.
Excellent written, verbal, customer-facing, and executive communication skills.
Mandatory and Desired Skills
Experience leading technical organizations of 15 or more people.
Strong hands-on foundation in software development, application architecture, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise architecture.
Experience managing the full software-development lifecycle from discovery and design through deployment and operations.
Expertise in modern programming ecosystems, distributed systems, APIs, microservices, containers, and cloud-native architecture.
Five or more years of public-cloud architecture experience.
Proven leadership of complex application modernization, digital-product, infrastructure, or cloud-transformation programs.
Demonstrated ability to design complex architectures and organize multidisciplinary teams to deliver them.
Knowledge of agile product delivery, DevSecOps, site reliability engineering, IT service management, and engineering-performance metrics.
Experience implementing FinOps practices, including cost allocation, forecasting, optimization, and governance.
Strong commercial judgment, organizational leadership, coaching ability, and executive presence.
The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is: $139,020 - $226,050.
Capgemini provides compensation range information in accordance with applicable national, state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws. The base compensation range listed for this position reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation Capgemini, in good faith, believes it may pay for the role at the time of this posting. This range may be subject to change as permitted by law.
The actual compensation offered to any candidate may fall outside of the posted range and will be determined based on multiple factors legally permitted in the applicable jurisdiction.
These may include, but are not limited to: Geographic location, Education and qualifications, Certifications and licenses, Relevant experience and skills, Seniority and performance, Market and business consideration, Internal pay equity.
It is not typical for candidates to be hired at or near the top of the posted compensation range.
In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for additional compensation such as variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions, depending on the position and applicable laws.
Capgemini offers a comprehensive, non-negotiable benefits package to all regular, full-time employees. In the U.S. and Canada, available benefits are determined by local policy and eligibility and may include:
Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick Leave
Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
Life and disability insurance
Employee assistance programs
Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility
Important Notice: Compensation (including bonuses, commissions, or other forms of incentive pay) is not considered earned, vested, or payable until it becomes due under the terms of applicable plans or agreements and is subject to Capgemini’s discretion, consistent with applicable laws. The Company reserves the right to amend or withdraw compensation programs at any time, within the limits of applicable legislation.
Disclaimers
Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging inclusion in the workplace. Capgemini also participates in the Partnership Accreditation in Indigenous Relations (PAIR) program which supports meaningful engagement with Indigenous communities across Canada by promoting fairness, accessibility, inclusion and respect. We value the rich cultural heritage and contributions of Indigenous Peoples and actively work to create a welcoming and respectful environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics