Azure Platform Lead: Data & AI Cloud Engineering

Accenture; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Senior Azure Tech Lead to design, implement and operate secure cloud platforms supporting data-intensive workloads. You will bridge cloud engineering and data teams while enabling analytics and AI services.

You will lead platform design, automation pipelines and governance, ensuring reliability and cost efficiency across environments. Strong leadership and enterprise- scale collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Azure engineering experience across networking, compute, storage, identity and governance.
• Experience with Terraform or Bicep, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and scripting with PowerShell or Python.
• Working knowledge of Azure data services and the non-functional needs of analytical platforms.
• Strong understanding of enterprise security architecture, resilience engineering, observability, governance and cloud financial management.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical design and operational health of Azure platform services, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security and governance standard.
• Provision repeatable environments through infrastructure as code and automated deployment pipelines.
• Engineer platform foundations for Data Lake Storage, Fabric, Data Factory, Databricks, Azure SQL and related services.
• Apply private connectivity, managed identities, secrets management, encryption, backup and disaster-recovery patterns.
• Monitor reliability, performance, capacity and cost; lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Lead technical delivery of cloud platform workstreams, managing technical risks, dependencies, readiness activities and successful transition into operations.
• Define and enforce cloud engineering standards, automation practices and operational controls to ensure consistency, cost optimisation, reliability and maintainability across environments.
• Provide technical leadership and coaching to engineers while collaborating with architects, security teams, application teams and client stakeholders to align cloud-platform capabilities with business requirements

Skills

Azure engineering

Security governance

Enterprise architecture

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Senior Azure Tech Lead to design, implement and operate secure cloud platforms supporting data-intensive workloads. You will bridge cloud engineering and data teams while enabling analytics and AI services.

You will lead platform design, automation pipelines and governance, ensuring reliability and cost efficiency across environments. Strong leadership and enterprise- scale collaboration are essential.