Cloud Infrastructure Delivery Lead

Accenture UK & Ireland; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland in London is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Delivery Lead Manager to oversee hybrid cloud infrastructure for enterprise clients. You will lead teams across consulting, delivery management, and technical execution to plan, design, test, and deploy end-to-end hybrid cloud transformation solutions.

The role emphasizes strong client-facing consulting, engagement with CIO/CTO/AI leadership, and building compelling business cases.

Qualifications

• Strong client-facing consulting experience.
• Ability to engage effectively with CIO, CTO and AI leadership teams.
• Commercial awareness and business case development capability.

Responsibilities

• Lead in teams to architect, engineer, operate and govern on-premises and cloud AI infrastructure solutions.
• Develop and deliver strategies and solutions – including architecting, provisioning, configuring, managing, migrating and automating platforms on premise and in the cloud.
• Stay educated on new and emerging market offerings that may be of interest to our clients.
• Strong client-facing consulting experience.
• Ability to engage effectively with CIO, CTO and AI leadership teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience leading distributed architecture and engineering teams.
• Infrastructure design, build, and management across Datacenter, Networks, Compute, Storage, Cloud migrations and lifecycle management.

Job description

Cloud Infrastructure Delivery Lead Manager

Location: London (with expected travel)

Salary: Competitive, plus benefits.

In this role you will:

Accenture’s Infrastructure Architecture & Engineering practice, within our Digital Core Reinvention group, is focused on providing best in class hybrid cloud infrastructure for large enterprise clients. Our team provides full lifecycle cloud and infrastructure services from consulting on strategy to leading large technology implementations.

Accenture’s Infrastructure Delivery Leads, manage high performing teams across consulting, delivery management, project execution, and technical expertise to partner with our clients to plan, analyse, design, test, and deploy enterprise scale end-to-end hybrid cloud transformation solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead in teams to architect, engineer, operate and govern on-premises and cloud AI infrastructure solutions
• Develop and deliver strategies and solutions – including architecting, provisioning, configuring, managing, migrating and automating platforms on premise and in the cloud.
• Stay educated on new and emerging market offerings that may be of interest to our clients.
• Strong client-facing consulting experience.
• Ability to engage effectively with CIO, CTO and AI leadership teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience leading distributed architecture and engineering teams.
• Commercial awareness and business case development capability.
• Infrastructure design, build, and management experience in some of the following areas:
• Infrastructure fundamentals (e.g., Datacenter, Networks, Compute, Storage)
• Cloud and Infrastructure Migrations, Operations and Lifecycle management
• Cloud services (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
• Cloud and Infrastructure Security & Resilience (DR, HA, Backup & Recovery)
• Virtualization Platforms (e.g., VMware, Hyper‑V, Nutanix)
• Container Platforms (e.g., Openshift, EKS, AKS, GKS)
• Infrastructure Automation (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Python)