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This is a Hybrid role based in Nashville, Tennessee.

About the job you're considering

Capgemini is hiring a Senior Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Solution Architect responsible for designing, governing, and delivering secure, scalable, and highly available cloud-native solutions. This role provides end-to-end technical leadership across GCP architecture, Kubernetes, microservices, DevOps/GitOps, security, observability, and cloud modernization initiatives, while supporting pre-sales engagements, enterprise migrations, and large-scale transformation programs.

Your role
• Provide end-to-end architecture leadership for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) solutions across enterprise programs.
• Design and govern secure, scalable, and highly available cloud-native architectures on GCP.
• Lead architecture and delivery across Kubernetes (GKE), microservices, DevOps/GitOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure automation.
• Define and enforce enterprise-grade cloud standards, architectures, and best practices.
• Architect and guide large-scale cloud migration and modernization initiatives, including legacy platform transformation.
• Design and oversee GCP networking, IAM, security, encryption, and compliance architectures.
• Collaborate with engineering, platform, and security teams to ensure consistent architecture implementation.
• Support pre-sales activities, solution design, technical proposals, and customer presentations.
• Engage directly with customers and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Provide technical guidance across DevOps and GitOps pipelines, CI/CD workflows, and automation strategies.
• Define observability strategies, including logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting.
• Mentor engineers and architects, influencing multiple teams across delivery programs.
• Partner with delivery, SRE, and operations teams to ensure performance, reliability, and availability targets are met.
• Own architectural outcomes and drive alignment across large, complex transformation initiatives.

Your skills and experience
• Minimum 12+ experience as a Senior or Lead Cloud Architect, with deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP core services, including compute, storage, networking, and managed services.
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and GKE, including containerized microservices architectures.
• Strong experience designing and implementing cloud-native and microservices-based solutions.
• Proven experience leading enterprise cloud migrations and modernization programs.
• Strong knowledge of GCP IAM, security, encryption, networking, and governance models.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps/GitOps practices.
• Strong experience with infrastructure automation, including Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience defining and implementing observability frameworks, including monitoring, logging, and tracing.
• Ability to operate in customer-facing roles, including pre-sales, architecture reviews, and executive discussions.
• Strong architectural leadership skills with the ability to influence across multiple teams and stakeholders..
• Strong mentoring and leadership skills to develop engineers and architects.
• Comfortable working across pre-sales, delivery, and transformation programs.
• Capable of managing multiple concurrent priorities in complex enterprise environments.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across onshore and offshore teams.
• Commitment to security, reliability, scalability, and engineering excellence.

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The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is $88,544 to $207,401

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