Infrastructure Enterprise Architect, Sr Manager

ACCENTURE; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an Infrastructure Advisory Senior Manager in London to lead enterprise infrastructure architecture initiatives. You will define future-state capabilities, align investments with strategy, and drive modernisation across datacenter, networks, and cloud platforms.

Travel is expected as part of large enterprise engagements. The role requires proven design and delivery work on transformation programmes, governance leadership, and experience in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale infrastructure solutions.
• Experience delivering large transformation programmes.
• Strong background in cloud and infrastructure modernisation.
• Experience working within regulated environments.
• Demonstrated leadership of architecture governance activities.
• Experience developing executive-level technology strategies and roadmaps.
• Infrastructure design, build, and management across datacenters, networks, compute, storage and cloud services; knowledge of virtualization and container platforms; automation skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the enterprise infrastructure architecture roadmap.
• Define future-state infrastructure capabilities and target architectures.
• Align infrastructure investment to business and technology strategy.
• Drive infrastructure modernisation and reduce technical debt.
• Support merger, acquisition, divestiture, and transformation programmes.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud & infrastructure modernization

Regulated environments experience

Executive-level technology strategies

Architecture governance leadership

Strategic roadmaps & governance

Merger/acquisition transformation

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

VMware

Hyper-V

Nutanix

OpenShift

EKS

AKS

GKE

Job description

Job Description

Infrastructure Advisory Senior 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. To learn more about the Infrastructure Engineering group, please visit our site.

Accenture's Enterprise Architects are responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the enterprise-wide infrastructure architecture that underpins business services and digital transformation initiatives. The role ensures that infrastructure platforms, cloud services, networks, compute, storage, end-user computing, security, and operational tooling align to business objectives, regulatory requirements, and enterprise architecture standards.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the enterprise infrastructure architecture roadmap.
• Define future-state infrastructure capabilities and target architectures.
• Align infrastructure investment decisions to business and technology strategy.
• Drive infrastructure modernisation and technical debt reduction initiatives.
• Support merger, acquisition, divestiture, and transformation programmes.

Qualification

• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale infrastructure solutions.
• Experience delivering large transformation programmes.
• Strong background in cloud and infrastructure modernisation.
• Experience working within regulated environments.
• Demonstrated leadership of architecture governance activities.
• Experience developing executive-level technology strategies and roadmaps
• 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)
• Developing knowledge of AI Infrastructure solutions

Locations

London

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