Lead Architect : Infrastructure

Publication date : Oct 26, 2026, 12:00AM

Join us at Orange Business!
We are a network and digital integrator that understands the entire value chain of the digital world, freeing our customers to focus on the strategic initiatives that shape their business.
Every day, you will collaborate with a team dedicated to providing consistent, sustainable global solutions, no matter where our customers operate. With over 30,000 employees across Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, we offer a dynamic environment to develop and perfect your skills in a field filled with exciting challenges and opportunities.

The Lead Cloud Infrastructure Architect will serve as the senior technical leader for the Private Cloud Customers. This role is responsible for setting the technical vision, establishing architectural governance, and leading the design and industrialization of next-generation cloud infrastructure offerings.

The Lead Architect will mentor the team, act as the final authority on complex designs, and bridge technical architecture with strategic business goals.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

I. Strategic Architecture & Governance

• Define Architecture Strategy: Establish the long-term technical vision and architectural roadmap for the Private Cloud Customers, ensuring alignment with Orange's business objectives.
• Establish Governance: Develop and enforce architectural standards, design patterns, and best practices across all cloud infrastructure projects to ensure security, compliance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
• Technology Evaluation: Lead the evaluation, selection, and industrialization of new core cloud technologies (e.g., hardware, networking, virtualization, and emerging services like GenAI components).

II. Technical Solution Leadership

• Complex Solution Design: Serve as the final design authority for the most complex, high-value cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions for enterprise customers.
• End-to-End Platform Design: Oversee the architecture and integration of foundational cloud components, including VMware technology (vSphere, NSX-T), Open Source solutions Cisco IP fabric, and multi-vendor hardware (HP, Cisco, Storage, Backup).
• Product Industrialization: Drive the end-to-end industrialization lifecycle for new cloud services, including defining technical specifications, creating service catalogs, and integrating automation, billing, and monitoring systems.

III. Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Technical Mentorship: Provide guidance, coaching, and technical direction to junior and mid-level architects and engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the primary technical interface between the Architecture team and Product Management, Operations, Security, and Sales to ensure seamless service delivery.

Skills :

Technical skills related to IT infrastructures and Cloud domain (Private, Hybrid Cloud)

Capability to transform business requirement into Cloud Architecture across all domains like Compute, Storage, Backup and Network.

engage and partner with customers at a detailed technical level, operational and compliance level

foresee and anticipate potential risk exposure at an operation and technical level

produce technical specifications which provide high value and efficiency throughout full life cycle

wide and significant expertise allowing to understand technology across silos

identify and develop key partner and vendor relationships as required to deliver fully integrated solutions

Fluent in English Language. Knowledge of French language will be beneficial.

translate business requirements into technical architectures and design specifications

strong technical knowledge on cloud domain : VMware, OpenSource, Networks & Security and design principles

convert customer requirements into actionable architecture.

You bring a can-do attitude, tackle challenges head-on and challenge the status quo with new and innovative ideas.

• Global Opportunities: Work in multi-national teams with opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and customers from all over the world.
• Flexible Work Environment: Flexible working hours and possibility to combine work from office and home (hybrid ways of working).
• Professional Development: Training programs and upskilling/re-skilling opportunities.
• Career Growth: Internal growth and mobility opportunities within Orange.
• Caring and Daring Culture: Health and well-being programs and benefits, diversity & inclusion initiatives, CSR and employee connect events.
• Reward Programs: Employee Referral Program, Change Maker Awards.

At Orange, only your skills matter.

Regardless of your age, gender, background, origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, or appearance, we actively encourage diversity within our teams, as it is a collective strength and a driver of innovation.
Orange is a disability-inclusive employer: please feel free to let us know about any specific needs you may have.