AWS Edge Tech Leader – Mid-Market Growth

Accenture; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 174,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Edge for AWS is seeking a Technology Leader to set the technology vision and lead the AWS business unit, delivering enterprise-grade results for mid-market clients. This role combines hands-on AWS architecture credibility with field CTO-style customer engagement, presales solutioning, and close collaboration with sales, AWS field teams, and delivery pods.

The leader will drive architecture standards, reusable assets, and governance, while growing talent and ensuring delivery readiness

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in cloud architecture, technology consulting, platform engineering, managed services, systems integration, or digital transformation delivery.
• Minimum of 8+ years of hands-on AWS architecture, engineering, migration, modernization, operations, or cloud delivery experience.
• Minimum of 8+ years leading technology vision, architecture strategy, delivery teams, cloud centers of excellence, or platform engineering teams for a cloud services or transformation business.
• Minimum of 8+ years leading teams of at least 25–50 architects, engineers, consultants, delivery leads, or managed services professionals.
• Minimum of 8+ years solutioning, governing, and delivering AWS cloud migration, modernization, managed services, data, AI, security, DevOps, or contact center engagements.
• Minimum of 8+ years experience serving as senior technical sponsor, field CTO, chief architect, or top technical point of contact for at least 5 large customer accounts, strategic pursuits, or enterprise transformation programs.
• Minimum of 8+ years experience leading technical delivery governance for at least 10 large-scale cloud programs with responsibility for architecture quality, delivery readiness, risk mitigation, technical escalation management, and customer executive alignment.
• Minimum of 8+ years experience supporting at least $50M–$100M in annual cloud services bookings, delivery portfolio, managed services revenue, or AWS business unit technology-enabled revenue.
• Experience creating certification, skills, or capability plans that increased AWS-certified talent by at least 25% year over year or produced at least 25 new AWS certifications annually.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If associate's degree, must have minimum 6 years' work experience).

Responsibilities

• Serve as the core technical leader for the AWS business unit: Own the technology vision, technical strategy, architecture principles, delivery standards, reusable accelerators, technical playbooks, and governance model for Accenture Edge for AWS.
• Lead technical solutioning: Own solution quality across cloud migration, VMware migration, secure cloud foundation, managed services, FinOps, data modernization, AI modernization, Amazon Connect, DevOps, security, and modernization pursuits.
• Serve as field CTO for customers: Act as the senior-most technical point of contact for priority customers, leading architecture strategy, technical vision, executive-level technology conversations, and trusted-advisor engagement with customer CIO, CTO, CISO, engineering, operations, and business leaders.
• Lead the technology charter in large accounts and deals: Own technical strategy, solution architecture, delivery feasibility, risk posture, executive technical alignment, and architecture-to-delivery continuity for large accounts, complex pursuits, and strategic AWS transformation programs.
• Partner with sales and AWS: Support customer discovery, executive workshops, AWS co-sell motions, ACE opportunities, proposal development, solution estimates, deal shaping, and technical differentiation for strategic pursuits.
• Scale delivery readiness: Ensure offerings move from sale to delivery with clear scope, architecture, staffing model, pricing assumptions, acceptance criteria, delivery risks, and client success measures.
• Develop technical talent: Build capability frameworks, certification paths, communities of practice, architecture review routines, and mentoring models for architects, engineers, consultants, and delivery leads.
• Govern quality and risk: Establish technical review boards, Well-Architected discipline, security-by-design practices, delivery assurance checkpoints, and escalation paths for complex AWS engagements.
• Improve repeatability: Convert successful delivery patterns into packaged offerings, accelerators, templates, automation, migration factories, runbooks, and managed services transition models.
• Drive technology performance: Track technical quality, delivery productivity, certification progress, solution reuse, margin support, customer satisfaction, and offering adoption across the AWS business unit.
• Travel may be required for role. 0-100% depending on client and business needs

Skills

AWS architecture

Delivery leadership

Field CTO

Customer engagement

Pre-sales solutioning

Technical governance

Solution architecture

Team mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Well-Architected Framework

ACE

DevOps

Job description

Accenture Edge for AWS is seeking a Technology Leader to set the technology vision and lead the AWS business unit, delivering enterprise-grade results for mid-market clients. This role combines hands-on AWS architecture credibility with field CTO-style customer engagement, presales solutioning, and close collaboration with sales, AWS field teams, and delivery pods.

The leader will drive architecture standards, reusable assets, and governance, while growing talent and ensuring delivery readiness