Cloud Advisory Architecture Consultant

Accenture UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK in London seeks an Associate Manager in Digital Foundations/Cloud Advisory to lead architecture discussions, define solutions, and drive modernization for large-scale technology transformations. You will steer client conversations, shape target operating models, and guide multi-cloud strategies across public, private, and hybrid environments.

The role emphasizes setting technical direction, championing system performance, and mentoring teams while exploring Agentic AI-driven

Qualifications

• Experience leading architecture engagements with multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to translate business goals into technical requirements and roadmaps.
• Strong communication and storytelling to senior clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead and shape conversations with clients on cloud architecture across hybrid environments.
• Set technical direction and influence decisions at scale with training and mentoring.
• Drive modernization, cost-efficiency, and resilience through observable architectures.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Enterprise architecture

Solution design

Client engagements

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Digital Foundations/Cloud Advisory - Architecture – Associate Manager - London

Location: London

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

Level: 8 & 9 – Senior Consultant & Associate Managet

As a team:

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 a Consultant, you will:

• 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.
• 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).
• Manage & Mentor: Lead teams of architects and engineers, providing technical coaching, career counselling, performance management, and coaching to elevate technical excellence.
• Explore Emerging Agentic Architectures: Bring a genuine interest in Agentic AI and its potential to reshape how systems are designed and operated. Whether through client engagements, personal projects, prototype development, training, or independent research, demonstrate a commitment to building your knowledge and staying ahead of this fast-evolving area of technology.

• Strategic Architecture: A strong command of software architecture with the ability to link technical decisions to business outcomes (e.g., TCO, speed to market).
• Cloud & Integration Fluency: Proven experience across one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM), including PaaS and API gateway, IaaS including but not limited to network design, connectivity patterns, zero trust IAM, compute, storage backup, HA and DR strategies, container platforms and orchestration and iPaaS
• Embrace the Agentic Future: Demonstrate a passion for Agentic AI and the opportunities it creates for transforming technology and business operations. You may already have experience contributing to agentic solutions, or you may be actively developing your skills. We are looking for architects who are curious about this rapidly evolving field and eager to help clients navigate the journey towards increasingly intelligent, autonomous, and AI-driven systems.
• Hybrid and multi-cloud : Skilled in hybrid architectures and able to demonstrate where legacy meets cloud
• Operational Excellence: A solid understanding of non-functional requirements and the ability to translate them into robust architectural decisions for critical infrastructure.
• Advisory Skills: The ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders ("Storytelling") and manage senior client relationships.

What 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.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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