London: AWS Cloud Architect — Serverless & Microservices

Accenture UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days vacation

Private medical insurance

Charitable leave days

Job summary

Accenture in London is seeking an AWS Solution Architect at Specialist/Consultant level to design and implement cloud-based solutions for tier-1 clients. The role requires hands-on AWS expertise, security awareness, and strong engineering disciplines across CI/CD and infrastructure as code.

The successful candidate will work on cloud strategies, design modern architectures, and collaborate with global teams to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud workloads.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on experience designing and implementing solutions using AWS cloud services.
• AWS Professional and/or Associate certification (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer).
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AWS workloads using modern cloud patterns such as serverless, containerised, and microservices architectures.
• Develop scalable application solutions aligned with best practice for performance, resilience, and cost efficiency.
• Configure and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks to support rapid delivery.
• Apply cloud security principles, including identity and access management, encryption, and compliance controls.
• Optimise architectures for scalability, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Produce high-quality design documentation and contribute to architecture reviews.
• Execute testing strategies for functional and non-functional requirements (performance, security, reliability).
• Collaborate with clients and internal teams to deliver robust, cloud-first solutions.

Skills

AWS design

Cloud architecture

Security

CI/CD

Cost optimisation

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s in CS/Software Eng

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud security controls

Job description

Accenture in London is seeking an AWS Solution Architect at Specialist/Consultant level to design and implement cloud-based solutions for tier-1 clients. The role requires hands-on AWS expertise, security awareness, and strong engineering disciplines across CI/CD and infrastructure as code.

The successful candidate will work on cloud strategies, design modern architectures, and collaborate with global teams to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud workloads.