Director Cloud Architecture & Delivery
Required skills
- cloud architecture
- delivery
- forward-deployed engineering
- cloud-hosted
- AI-enabled
- customer environments
- Azure
- multi-cloud
- PLEXOS
- Aurora
Nice to have
- technical or business discipline
- MEng
- senior-level experience
- Google Professional Cloud Architect
- North American power sector
- ISO/RTO market structures
Role summary
Energy Exemplar is seeking a Director of Cloud Architecture & Delivery to lead their cloud architecture and forward-deployed engineering team. This role is crucial for enabling the pre-sales organization to win and launch cloud-hosted and AI-enabled customer solutions. You will build and lead a team that designs, integrates, and deploys cloud solutions and AI agents directly with customers. The position requires deep expertise in enterprise cloud architecture (Azure-first, multi-cloud), energy market software, applied AI, and consultative pre-sales. You will act as the senior technical advisor to customers, including CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs, and own the technical cloud and AI deployment for complex opportunities. Responsibilities include defining reference architectures, security and compliance responses, proof-of-concept environments, and delivery plans. This is a remote, Director-level, people-leader role with significant customer-facing responsibilities and up to 30% travel.
About Energy Exemplar
In an era where the world is rapidly advancing towards a cleaner future through decarbonization, Energy Exemplar’s mission lies in ‘Empowering Transformative Energy Decisions’. Founded in 1999 in Adelaide, Australia, our award-winning software portfolio encompassing the modeling and simulation platform PLEXOS®, Aurora, and Adapt2, is trusted by innovative organizations across the globe. Through our technology and people, we strive to enable stakeholders from across the entire energy value chain to revolutionize the energy ecosystem and to collaboratively plan and execute for a sustainable energy future with unprecedented clarity, speed, and innovation.
Our impact is global and is being recognized across the industry. Some of our recent accolades include:
How We Work
Energy Exemplar is growing fast and that growth is driven by how we work. We trust our team to deliver great results from wherever they work best, whether that’s at home, in the office, or on the move.
We’re a global team that values ownership, integrity, and innovation. You’ll be supported to balance work and life in a way that works for you, and empowered to take initiative, solve problems, and make an impact, regardless of your background, location, or role.
Our four core values, Customer Success, One Global Team, Integrity & Ownership, and Innovation Excellence aren’t just words. They show up in how we collaborate, how we solve, and how we grow together.
About the Position
The Director of Cloud Architecture & Delivery builds and leads the cloud architecture and forward-deployed engineering capability that enables Energy Exemplar's Solutions (pre-sales) organization to win and launch cloud-hosted and AI-enabled customers. This role builds and leads a team that works directly with customers to design, integrate, deploy, and validate cloud solutions and AI agents in customer environments. The position sits at the intersection of four disciplines: enterprise cloud architecture (Azure-first, multi-cloud fluent), energy-market software (PLEXOS, Aurora, Adapt2, and the PLEXOS Intelligence layer), applied AI and agentic systems, and consultative pre-sales. Utilities, ISOs/RTOs, developers, and regulators look to the Director for how Energy Exemplar's platform and AI agents run securely and at scale alongside their own cloud estates. The role owns the technical cloud and AI deployment in every pursuit: reference architectures, security and compliance responses, proof-of-concept environments, and the delivery plan that turns commitments made during the sales process into a practical, successful cloud and AI onboarding.
The Director reports to the Vice President, Solutions (Americas) and sits within the Presales Solutions team. Partnering with Sales, Solutions, and Services, the Director shapes solutions for complex opportunities, leads technical conversations with senior customer stakeholders, and builds confidence in proposed architectures. The role works day to day with Sales and Account Directors, Solutions Engineers, Product and Engineering (PLEXOS Cloud and PLEXOS Intelligence), Post Sales Services, Customer Success, Information Security, and cloud platform partners to establish repeatable approaches to technical discovery, solution design, and validation, guide cloud migration and deployment planning, ensure a clear, practical handover into post-sales delivery, and build internal architectural expertise through coaching, enablement, and technical standards. It is a remote, United States-based Director-level position, a people-leader role that still expects individual-contributor depth, with travel of up to 30% for onsite customer meetings, executive briefings, and industry events across North America and LATAM.
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