# Director Cloud Architecture & Delivery

**Company**: Energy Exemplar
**Location**: North America - Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

In an era of rapid advancement towards a cleaner future, Energy Exemplar empowers transformative energy decisions.

As a Director of Cloud Architecture & Delivery, you will build and lead the cloud architecture and forward-deployed engineering capability that enables Energy Exemplar's Solutions organization to win and launch cloud-hosted and AI-enabled customers.

Key Responsibilities:

- Build and lead a forward-deployed engineering capability that works closely with customer technical and business teams to translate priority use cases into deployed solutions.

- Embed with customer teams to design, integrate, and deploy AI agents and agentic workflows built on PLEXOS Intelligence.

- Act as the senior cloud and AI technical advisor to customers and prospects.

- Partner with Sales and Pre Sales on technical deal strategy, architecture workshops, and demonstrations.

- Define acceptance criteria with customers and validate deployed agents and solutions.

- Own the cloud reference architectures for PLEXOS Cloud, PLEXOS Intelligence, and adjacent AI agents and 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, vendor risk assessments, and proposals.

- Establish reusable discovery frameworks, technical materials, agent templates, and deployment patterns.

- Partner with Product Engineering to turn repeatable customer implementation patterns into supported product capabilities.

Skills and Experience:

- 12+ years in enterprise technology, including 7+ years designing and delivering production cloud architectures.

- Experience leading engineers embedded in customer implementations.

- Strong customer-facing pre-sales experience.

- Deep expertise in at least one hyperscaler (Azure preferred).

- 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.

- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

Desirable Experience:

- Master's degree in a technical or business discipline.

- Current professional-level cloud architecture certification.

- Working knowledge of the North American power sector.

- Direct experience with energy market simulation tools.

- Experience migrating on-premises, compute-intensive analytical software to cloud or SaaS delivery.

- Experience building or scaling a pre-sales architecture capability.

Measures of Success:

- Strong technical win rates and effective resolution of architecture and security objections.

- Proofs of concept meet agreed success criteria.

- Proposed solutions are feasible and well-documented.

- Reusable architectures and enablement improve pre-sales efficiency and technical capability.

## Skills

### Required
- cloud architecture
- AI engineering
- enterprise integrations
- REST/GraphQL
- APIs and data flows
- cloud performance
- scalability
- governance
- cost optimization
- Azure
- AWS
- GCP
- PLEXOS
- Aurora
- Adapt2

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in a technical or business discipline
- current professional-level cloud architecture certification
- working knowledge of the North American power sector
- direct experience with energy market simulation tools
- experience migrating on-premises, compute-intensive analytical software to cloud or SaaS delivery
- experience building or scaling a pre-sales architecture capability

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