Cloud Platform Lead: Modernize & Migrate Fast

Accenture; New York (NY); On-site; USD 123,000 - 302,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture seeks a seasoned cloud leader to own client engagements across cloud infrastructure, landing zones, and modernization programs. You will guide technical teams, review IaC and PRs, and manage offshore engineers to deliver secure, scalable platform foundations.

Expect hands-on work with Terraform, GKE, Apigee, and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring governance and risk management. Travel between 25%–100% may be required for client delivery.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years in hands-on, client-facing technology roles with at least 5 years architecting and delivering on Google Cloud Platform.
• Minimum 7+ experience independently owning client engagements from design through go-live, with strong dual mastery in technical leadership and delivery management (scope, risk, dynamic client stakeholders).
• Minimum 3+ years experience hands-on proficiency with Terraform, VPC networking, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Apigee/API gateways, Cloud Run, compute services, and CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)—including the ability to design landing zones, write Terraform modules, review PRs, and debug broken deployments.
• Minimum 3+ years experience implementing security-by-design principles (IAM, org policies, encryption, network segmentation, compliance controls) alongside modern software engineering practices (clean code, testing strategies, observability, 12-factor apps).
• Minimum 5+ years experience leading distributed global engineering teams and clear communication skills across technical whiteboarding with engineers or presenting to C-suite executives.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (minimum 12 years of work experience if no degree; minimum 6 years of work experience required with an Associate's degree).

Responsibilities

• Own delivery end-to-end: Serve as the single point of accountability for scope, schedule, engineering quality, platform security, and business outcomes across infrastructure and application modernization workstreams.
• Design migration waves, application refactoring patterns (e.g., strangler-fig), infrastructure deployment cadences, and team structures to minimize risk and maximize velocity.
• Provide technical advisory: Guide client leadership and technical teams on GCP landing zones, container orchestration, microservice architectures, API gateways, security controls, and cloud operational models.
• Lead cross-border delivery teams: Coordinate onshore client engagement leadership with offshore engineering teams to set priorities, clear blockers, review code/modules, and maintain delivery pace.
• Drive rapid time-to-value: Stand up delivery immediately post-sale to deploy platform foundations, migrate workloads, and refactor applications in weeks rather than quarters.
• Enforce technical governance: Establish automated deployment guardrails, CI/CD pipelines, testing strategies, SRE alerting, and operational readiness checkpoints.

Skills

Cloud architecture leadership

Client engagement

Cross-functional leadership

Public speaking to executives

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Apigee/API gateways

Cloud Run

CI/CD (Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Security-by-design

Job description

Accenture seeks a seasoned cloud leader to own client engagements across cloud infrastructure, landing zones, and modernization programs. You will guide technical teams, review IaC and PRs, and manage offshore engineers to deliver secure, scalable platform foundations.

Expect hands-on work with Terraform, GKE, Apigee, and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring governance and risk management. Travel between 25%–100% may be required for client delivery.