Senior Multi-Cloud Infra Architect & Platform Lead

3700 Accenture N.V. Company; Sint-Jans-Molenbeek; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

13th month + holiday allowance

Laptop and smartphone

Hospitalization insurance

Flexibility and bonus program

Training & learning opportunities

Green mobility program

Employee shares purchase plan

Eco-cheques

Job summary

Accenture Belgium is seeking a Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Architect to own the technical leadership of cloud and hybrid transformation programmes for enterprise clients. You will define standards, patterns, roadmaps, advise IT leadership and CxOs, drive multi-cloud adoption, and mentor junior architects.

You will contribute to pre‑sales, thought leadership and capability development, engage in business development, and shape secure, cost-aware cloud platforms across AWS, Azure and GCP.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in multi-cloud architecture (AWS, Azure, GCP) and large-scale hybrid cloud deployments.
• Mastery of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, Pulumi) and GitOps practices.
• Expert-level container orchestration: Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE), Helm, service meshes (Istio, Linkerd).
• Advanced networking: SD-WAN, BGP, ExpressRoute/Direct Connect, Zero Trust Networking, SASE.
• Strong cloud security architecture: IAM, encryption, compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, NIS2).
• Experience defining enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices at scale.
• Ability to design high-availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and engage at CxO level.
• Strong analytical skills for architecture trade-offs, cost modelling, and risk assessment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the definition, design, and documentation of enterprise-grade cloud and hybrid architectures.
• Develop and own cloud architecture strategies, governance standards, and compliance frameworks.
• Drive cloud adoption and lead architectural decision-making for complex, multi-workload enterprise transformations.
• Provide solution architecture guidance and analyze alternative patterns.
• Define multi-cloud strategy across AWS, Azure, and GCP, including hybrid and edge computing.
• Architect and oversee delivery of PaaS platforms and containerised workloads at scale.
• Define IaC patterns, CI/CD blueprints, and DevSecOps automation standards.
• Model Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and FinOps-aligned architectures.
• Act as SME and trusted advisor to client CxOs and IT leadership.
• Mentor junior architects and contribute to capability development.
• Engage in business development: opportunity qualification, solution shaping, proposals.
• Contribute to thought leadership, publications, and practice innovation.

Skills

Multi-cloud architecture

Infrastructure as Code

Container orchestration

Networking and security

Cloud security architecture

CI/CD & DevSecOps

High availability & DR/BC

CxO engagement

Cost modelling & FinOps

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Bicep

Pulumi

Kubernetes

Istio

Linkerd

Helm

GitOps

Job description

Accenture Belgium is seeking a Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Architect to own the technical leadership of cloud and hybrid transformation programmes for enterprise clients. You will define standards, patterns, roadmaps, advise IT leadership and CxOs, drive multi-cloud adoption, and mentor junior architects.

You will contribute to pre‑sales, thought leadership and capability development, engage in business development, and shape secure, cost-aware cloud platforms across AWS, Azure and GCP.