Director Cloud Architecture & Delivery

The role

The Director of Cloud Architecture & Delivery builds and leads a forward-deployed engineering capability to enable cloud-hosted and AI-enabled customer wins. This person designs, integrates, and deploys cloud solutions and AI agents in customer environments while acting as a senior technical advisor.

What you will do

• Build and lead a forward-deployed engineering capability to translate use cases into deployed solutions.
• Design, integrate, and deploy AI agents and agentic workflows in customer environments.
• Act as senior cloud and AI technical advisor to customers and prospects.
• Partner with Sales and Pre Sales on technical deal strategy, architecture workshops, and demonstrations.
• Scope and guide proofs of concept and pilots.
• Define acceptance criteria and validate deployed agents and solutions.
• Own cloud reference architectures for PLEXOS Cloud, PLEXOS Intelligence, and adjacent products.
• Lead the pre-sales-to-Services handoff for cloud and AI deals.
• Set guardrails for agentic deployments in regulated environments.
• Lead cloud and AI architecture input into RFIs, RFPs, security reviews, and proposals.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years in enterprise technology
• 7+ years designing and delivering production cloud architectures for enterprise or regulated customers
• Experience leading engineers embedded in customer implementations
• Strong customer-facing pre-sales experience
• Deep expertise in at least one hyperscaler (Azure preferred) and working fluency across AWS and GCP
• Experience designing AI agent engineering in production
• Ability to connect architecture decisions to customer business objectives
• Strong understanding of enterprise integrations, REST/ GraphQL, APIs and data flows
• Executive presence and communication skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field

Nice to have

• Master's degree in a technical or business discipline (MS, MEng, MBA) or equivalent demonstrated senior-level experience
• Current professional-level cloud architecture certification: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, or Google Professional Cloud Archi
• Working knowledge of the North American power sector
• Direct experience with energy market simulation, production cost, capacity expansion, or resource adequacy tools
• Experience migrating on-premises, compute-intensive analytical software to cloud or SaaS delivery
• Experience building or scaling a pre-sales architecture capability

Benefits

• Support to balance work and life

About the company

Energy Exemplar provides a software portfolio encompassing the modeling and simulation platform PLEXOS, Aurora, and Adapt2. The company's mission is empowering transformative energy decisions.