Infrastructure Enterprise Architect, Sr Manager

Accenture UK & Ireland; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland invites a Senior Manager to join our Infrastructure Advisory team in London, with travel. This role focuses on defining and governing enterprise infrastructure architecture that supports digital transformation across large enterprises.

You will drive cloud and infrastructure modernisation, create future-state architectures, and align investment decisions with business strategy, regulatory requirements, and enterprise standards.

Qualifications

• Experience defining enterprise infrastructure architecture roadmaps.
• Ability to define future-state infrastructure capabilities and target architectures.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale infrastructure transformations.

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 across datacenters, networks, compute, storage.
• Cloud migrations, operations and lifecycle management.
• Cloud services such as AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Security & resilience (DR, HA, Backup & Recovery).
• Virtualization platforms (VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix).
• Container platforms (OpenShift, EKS, AKS, GKS).
• Infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible, Python).
• Knowledge of AI Infrastructure solutions.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture governance

Cloud architectures

Regulated environments

Strategic roadmaps

Executive level communication

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Python

AWS

Azure

GCP

OpenShift

EKS

AKS

GKS

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