GCP 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. **Job Description** Capgemini is looking for a GCP Cloud Architect and Program Leader to lead a strategic cloud modernization initiative in the Financial Services and Payments domain. This role will drive the migration of critical payment processing workloads from AWS Lambda to GCP Cloud Functions, ensuring compliance, scalability, and performance in a highly regulated and security-sensitive environment. The ideal candidate will bring a strong mix of technical depth, leadership skills, and domain knowledge in financial services, with hands-on experience in GCP-native design and cloud transformation programs. **Responsibilities:** + Program Leadership: Lead the migration of serverless applications from AWS Lambda to GCP Cloud Functions, with a focus on high-availability and secure financial services workloads. + Cloud Architecture Design: Architect scalable, secure, and compliant solutions using Google Cloud Platform services tailored to the needs of payment systems. + Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with payment systems architects, compliance officers, and business teams to align cloud architecture with regulatory and operational goals. + Organizational and Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all cloud architectures and setups adhere to organizations standards and financial regulatory frameworks and industry standards. + Cloud Governance: Define and enforce best practices, reference architectures, and secure-by-design principles across all GCP implementations. + Performance Optimization: Evaluate existing AWS Lambda implementations and optimize their design for GCP in terms of latency, cost-efficiency, and throughput for transaction-heavy services. + Team Leadership: Mentor and guide engineering teams in adopting GCP technologies, serverless design patterns, and DevSecOps practices. + Documentation & Risk Management: Prepare detailed architecture documents, migration runbooks, and conduct risk assessments throughout the program lifecycle. **Skills Required:** + 12+ years of experience in IT, with at least 4 years in cloud architecture roles. + GCP Professional Cloud Architect certification is mandatory. + Deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform, especially Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, VPC, IAM, and Monitoring. + Proven experience in migrating serverless workloads from AWS Lambda to GCP Cloud Functions. + Strong understanding of payments infrastructure, transaction processing systems, and related security and compliance requirements. + Familiarity with DevOps/DevSecOps, CI/CD practices, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Deployment Manager. + Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders. + Familiarity with real-time payment systems, fraud detection workflows, or digital wallets. + Knowledge of hybrid and multi-cloud strategies. + Experience leading Agile **Life At Capgemini:** Capgemini supports all aspects of your well-being throughout the changing stages of your life and career. For eligible employees, we offer: + Flexible work + Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs + Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan + Paid time off and paid holidays + Paid parental leave + Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation + Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring + Mentoring, coaching and learning programs + Employee Resource Groups + Disaster Relief **Disclaimer:** Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law. This is a general description of the Duties, Responsibilities and Qualifications required for this position. Physical, mental, sensory or environmental demands may be referenced in an attempt to communicate the manner in which this position traditionally is performed. Whenever necessary to provide individuals with disabilities an equal employment opportunity, Capgemini will consider reasonable accommodations that might involve varying job requirements and/or changing the way this job is performed, provided that such accommodations do not pose an undue hardship. Capgemini is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodation, please reach out to your recruiting contact. Click the following link for more information on your rights as an Applicant http://www.capgemini.com/resources/equal-employment-opportunity-is-the-law Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion. Ref. code: 216979 Posted on: Apr 22, 2025 Experience Level: Experienced Professionals Contract Type: Permanent Location: Atlanta, US Brand: Capgemini Professional Community: Software Engineering Capgemini is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity/expression, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, genetics, veteran status, marital status or any other characteristic protected by law.