AWS Solution Architect Lead — AI/ML & Cloud Modernization

Accenture; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an experienced AWS-focused architect to act as the technical authority within the Cloud & AI Practice. You will design, validate, and position AWS-led solutions across cloud transformation, modernization, and AI/ML initiatives.

Lead mid–large pursuits, define client AWS architecture, and support growth by tracking AWS services and delivery patterns. Strong hands-on experience with AWS services, modernization patterns, and data/analytics architectures is required.

Qualifications

• Strong AWS expertise across EC2, EKS, ECS, Lambda, VPC, Direct Connect and databases.
• Proficiency in AI/ML on AWS including Bedrock, SageMaker, and Amazon Q.
• Experience with modernization patterns: containers, serverless, APIs, event-driven systems; IaC and CI/CD.
• Familiarity with data platforms: S3, Lake Formation, Glue, Athena, Kinesis, Redshift, OpenSearch.

Responsibilities

• Own AWS architecture and technical narrative for deals ($3M–$20M).
• Design end-to-end AWS solutions across compute, network, storage, DB, security, analytics, AI/ML aligned to client needs.
• Architect AWS AI/ML using Bedrock (RAG, agents), SageMaker (MLOps, training/inference), and Amazon Q.
• Lead modernization using containers (ECS/EKS), serverless (Lambda, Step Functions), APIs (API Gateway/AppSync), and event-driven architectures (MSK/Kinesis).
• Apply AWS Well-Architected Framework (all 6 pillars) in solutions.
• Build data & analytics architectures: data lakes (S3/Lake Formation), pipelines (Glue, EMR, Kinesis), and databases (RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch).
• Support AWS Partner Network growth via competencies, case studies, GTM.
• Develop proposal artefacts (solutions, diagrams, RFP content, cost models).
• Conduct discovery workshops and Well-Architected Reviews.
• Mentor architects and build reusable accelerators/assets.
• Collaborate with AWS teams for co-sell and funding (MAP, ISV Accelerate).

Skills

AWS breadth & depth

Cloud-native architecture

Microservices & containers

AI/ML on AWS

Java/Spring Boot

Python (AI/ML)

Node.js

Job description

Accenture is seeking an experienced AWS-focused architect to act as the technical authority within the Cloud & AI Practice. You will design, validate, and position AWS-led solutions across cloud transformation, modernization, and AI/ML initiatives.

Lead mid–large pursuits, define client AWS architecture, and support growth by tracking AWS services and delivery patterns. Strong hands-on experience with AWS services, modernization patterns, and data/analytics architectures is required.