Cloud Advisory Architecture Specialist

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

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an Associate Manager-level Architect to lead architecture discussions and drive cloud modernization across public, private, and hybrid environments in London. You will shape client conversations, set technical direction, and mentor teams to deliver scalable, secure architectures with a focus on agentic AI and sustainability.

The role emphasizes collaboration with clients and partners to translate business goals into technical roadmaps, leveraging modern observability and

Qualifications

• Strong command of software architecture linked to business outcomes (e.g., TCO, speed to market).
• Cloud & Integration Fluency across multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM), including PaaS, IaaS, API gateways, and container platforms.
• Demonstrated interest in Agentic AI and opportunities to shape autonomous, AI-driven systems.
• Hybrid and multi-cloud experience, bridging legacy with cloud architectures.
• Advisory skills: ability to communicate complex tech concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead client conversations and shape solutions across cloud environments.
• Define target operating models and modernization roadmaps with clients and partners.
• Drive system performance, cost-efficiency, and resilience via FinOps, sustainability, and observability practices.
• Design robust, secure, highly available architectures with zero-trust IAM and governance.
• Mentor teams of architects and engineers to elevate technical excellence.
• Explore emerging Agentic Architectures and stay ahead in AI-driven tech trends.

Skills

Strategic Architecture

Cloud & Integration Fluency

Hybrid and multi-cloud

Operational Excellence

Advisory Skills

Agentic AI interest

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

IBM

Job description

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 Manager

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.

Qualification

• 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.
• Eligibility to obtain security clearance

Locations

London

Additional Information

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