Infrastructure Enterprise Architect, Sr Manager

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

Job summary

Accenture UK is seeking an Infrastructure Advisory Senior Manager in London (with expected travel) to lead enterprise infrastructure architecture and oversee large transformation programmes. You will shape future-state capabilities, align investments, and guide cloud and on-premises platforms across regulated environments.

The role requires proven design of enterprise-scale solutions, governance leadership, and experience with AWS/Azure/GCP, virtualization, container platforms, and automation.

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.

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.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud infrastructure

Leadership

Governance

Strategic planning

Regulated environments

AI infrastructure knowledge

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

VMware

OpenShift

AWS

Azure

GCP

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.

• 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

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.

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