Cloud Advisory Agentic Focussed Consultant

Accenture UK & Ireland; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday per year

3 extra charity leave days per year

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland in London is seeking an Architect Consultant to lead the design and delivery of enterprise cloud transformations across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments. You will guide clients from strategy through to implementation and operation.

The role emphasizes Agentic AI workflows, strong security with zero trust, and cost-aware modernization, alongside mentoring of architects and engineers. Travel to client sites is expected, with a competitive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Experience shaping client conversations and architectures.
• Experience in multi-cloud environments and large-scale transformations.
• Strong communication and mentoring skills across senior teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead and shape conversations with clients, defining and driving solutions across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments.
• Set the technical direction, influencing decisions at scale with training and coaching programs.
• Own the Agentic Roadmap: guide clients through architectural evolution to Agentic AI workflows.
• Design enterprise-wide applications that are highly available, fault-tolerant, with zero trust IAM.
• Advise on cloud economics (FinOps), sustainability, and resilience with observable architectures.
• Champion system performance, observability, and cost-efficiency across GenAI initiatives.
• Mentor teams of architects and engineers to elevate technical excellence.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

Client management

Leadership

Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud

GenAI/Agentic AI

Security (zero trust)

AWS

Azure

GCP

SRE

AIOps

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

SRE

AIOps

Job description

Role: Cloud Advisory Agentic focussed Architecture Consultant

Location: London

Career Level: Specialist

Travel: Flexibility to travel to client sites

Salary: Competitive salary and package (dependant on level of experience)

As a team, you will:

Working at the forefront of multiple industries, our Architecture team leads the design and delivery of some of the largest, most complex, and highest-profile technology transformations in the world. We bring together deep technology, business, and industry expertise to set direction, solve critical challenges, and deliver architectures that scale, endure, and create real impact.

In our team you will:

• Lead and shape conversations with clients, defining and driving solutions to real-world problems through a blend of architecture and engineering across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments


• Set the technical direction, influencing decisions at scale while being backed by industry-leading training, certifications, and structured coaching and mentoring programmes.

As an Architect Consultant, you will:

• Own the Agentic Roadmap: Guide clients through the architectural evolution to active Agentic AI workflows, addressing the complexities of orchestration, state management, and autonomy.


• Ensure Robustness & Security: Own the design of enterprise-wide applications that are highly available, fault-tolerant, and secure zero trust identity and access management (never trust, always verify).


• Drive Strategy & Modernization: Partner directly with clients and where necessary our partner ecosystem to translate business goals into technical requirements, defining target operating models and modernization roadmaps.


• Optimize Value: Drive system performance and cost-efficiency, advising clients on Cloud Economics (FinOps), sustainability (Green Software), and resilience ensuring high performance, observable architectures especially where GenAI and Agentic play a role.


• Champion system performance, resilience, and efficiency: Proactively identifying and addressing consumption and scalability challenges. Champion full stack observability using modern full stack observability, SRE and AIOps.


• Manage & Mentor: Lead teams of architects and engineers, providing technical coaching, career counselling, performance management, and coaching to elevate technical excellence.

Will set you apart:

• Engineering/Development : Demonstrated experience working close to engineering and teams, ensuring realistic delivery expectations.


• Developer Repo Contributions : Showcase during interview personal or open-source work, prototypes, accelerators, or reference architectures so that during interview the repo artefacts can be used explain their decisions through architecture diagrams, ADRs, and code samples.

What’s in it for you:

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days holiday per year and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services, we are known for.

Closing Date for Applications:

31/08/2026

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.