Cloud Architect

Accenture PLC; Ernakulam; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Cloud Architect at Associate Manager level for the ACS SONG group in Kochi. You will design and deliver secure, cost-effective cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions, leading technical discovery, architecture decisions, estimation, delivery planning, and quality assurance from concept through implementation.

You will guide workshops, document production-ready designs, and work with security, finance, and client teams to meet requirements and timelines for complex

Qualifications

• 8-12 years of infrastructure, cloud architecture, or technical consulting experience.
• Successful delivery experience as a Cloud Architect on greenfield and migration projects.
• Hands-on architecture experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform; multi-cloud experience is a plus.
• Strong technical consulting skills, including workshop facilitation, current-state assessment, requirements analysis, and practical client recommendations.
• Ability to turn complex environments into clear architecture designs, implementation plans, work packages, and estimates.

Responsibilities

• Lead client and supplier workshops to understand the current environment, requirements, constraints, dependencies, and integration interfaces.
• Design and document production-ready infrastructure solutions for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Create proofs of concept where needed to validate designs, reduce technical risk, and improve estimate accuracy.
• Prepare infrastructure cost and effort estimates, including cloud pricing calculations and resource or skill requirements.
• Break solution designs into clear work packages with prerequisites, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and delivery estimates.
• Define infrastructure security concepts and work with client security teams to meet security and compliance requirements.
• Design monitoring, logging, and alerting for cloud, on-premises, monolithic, and microservices-based environments.
• Lead technicians, developers, operations, and DevOps teams; delegate tasks, resolve technical issues, and act as the quality gate for deliverables.
• Track infrastructure risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, and provide updates to the project RAID log.
• Support internal initiatives and represent the company at relevant industry events.

Skills

Cloud Technologies

Web Applications

Education

Graduation

Job description

Job Title - Cloud Architect - Associate Manager - ACS SONG

Management Level: Level 8- Associate Manager

Location: Kochi

Must have skills: Cloud Technologies

Good to have skills: Web Applications

Experience: 8-12 years of experience is required

Educational Qualification: Graduation

Job Summary

Work with client and internal teams to design and deliver secure, reliable, and cost-effective cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions. Lead technical discovery, architecture decisions, estimation, delivery planning, and quality assurance from concept through implementation.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead client and supplier workshops to understand the current environment, requirements, constraints, dependencies, and integration interfaces.


• Design and document production-ready infrastructure solutions for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.


• Create proofs of concept where needed to validate designs, reduce technical risk, and improve estimate accuracy.


• Prepare infrastructure cost and effort estimates, including cloud pricing calculations and resource or skill requirements.


• Break solution designs into clear work packages with prerequisites, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and delivery estimates.


• Define infrastructure security concepts and work with client security teams to meet security and compliance requirements.


• Design monitoring, logging, and alerting for cloud, on-premises, monolithic, and microservices-based environments.


• Lead technicians, developers, operations, and DevOps teams; delegate tasks, resolve technical issues, and act as the quality gate for deliverables.


• Track infrastructure risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, and provide updates to the project RAID log.


• Support internal initiatives and represent the company at relevant industry events.

Professional and Technical Skills

• 8-12 years of relevant infrastructure, cloud architecture, or technical consulting experience, with multiple completed projects.


• Successful delivery experience as a Cloud Architect on greenfield and migration projects.


• Hands-on architecture experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform; multi-cloud experience is an advantage.


• Strong technical consulting skills, including workshop facilitation, current-state assessment, requirements analysis, and practical client recommendations.


• Ability to turn complex environments into clear architecture designs, implementation plans, work packages, and estimates.


• Strong leadership and communication skills, with experience guiding multidisciplinary technical teams and making architecture decisions.


• Structured approach to priorities, deadlines, dependencies, risks, budget, and quality.


• Working knowledge of security, networking, identity, compute, storage, backup, resilience, monitoring, and cloud cost optimisation.


• Ability to produce architecture designs, migration concepts and plans, cost and effort estimates, pricing calculators, Architecture Decision Records, improvement and technical-debt backlogs, client requirements and constraints, and RAID log updates.

Additional Information

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