Senior Technical Architect & Delivery Lead (Cloud & AI)

Accenture PLC; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Private health insurance

Flexible work arrangements

Gym membership discounts

Job summary

Accenture Ireland is seeking an experienced Technical Architect to lead end-to-end solution architecture across cloud, AI and enterprise platforms. You will translate business strategy into pragmatic designs and own architectural decisions across complex programmes.

You will mentor technical leads, drive governance forums and shape architecture blueprints while collaborating with delivery teams and partners to ensure alignment with strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent; significant experience in lieu will be considered.
• 5+ years in technical or solution architecture roles with end-to-end ownership on complex, multi-workstream programmes.
• Proven ability to lead architecture across modern engineering solutions with deep hands-on expertise in at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Strong knowledge of integration patterns, distributed system design, data architecture and security architecture principles.
• Experience operating in a client-facing advisory capacity — comfortable presenting to senior audiences.
• Demonstrated people leadership: mentoring team members, leading design reviews, and developing team capability.
• Active practitioner of AI-enabled development tooling — tangible impact on delivery velocity, quality or design quality.
• Familiar with enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF) and modern delivery practices (DevOps, CI/CD, Agile/SAFe).

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for areas of architecture for complex, enterprise-scale programmes from target-state definition through transition architecture to delivery oversight.
• Define and drive architecture decisions (build/buy/reuse), articulating trade-offs, risks and dependencies clearly to technical and business stakeholders.
• Lead architecture design reviews and governance forums, ensuring standards are applied consistently across all workstreams.
• Produce and maintain architecture blueprints, reference architectures, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs).
• Determine approaches, methods and procedures on new assignments, making decisions that will be implemented by the team.
• Act as the primary technical interface for client stakeholders — translating business objectives into architecturally sound solutions.
• Facilitate architecture workshops, design sessions and executive briefings; build credibility with senior client and internal stakeholders.
• Support the technology strategy and roadmap for the engagement, coordinating with delivery leads and vendors to maintain alignment.
• Provide input into decisions on platform selection, integration patterns, cloud infrastructure and security architecture.
• Lead and mentor a team of technical leads and senior engineers; uphold engineering standards and architecture hygiene.
• Support delivery teams in translating architectural designs into implementable solutions; contribute to practice development across Accenture.

Skills

Cloud architecture

DevOps & CI/CD

Architecture leadership

AI-enabled tooling

TOGAF

Security architecture

RESTful APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Software Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Accenture Ireland is seeking an experienced Technical Architect to lead end-to-end solution architecture across cloud, AI and enterprise platforms. You will translate business strategy into pragmatic designs and own architectural decisions across complex programmes.

You will mentor technical leads, drive governance forums and shape architecture blueprints while collaborating with delivery teams and partners to ensure alignment with strategy.