Field CTO - Cloud Infra & App Modernization (GCP)

Accenture

Hartford (CT)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture seeks a senior Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end delivery of cloud infrastructure modernization for enterprise clients on Google Cloud Platform. You will own strategy, guide teams, review IaC, and coordinate offshore engineers to ship production-grade platforms quickly.

Requires 7+ years in client-facing tech roles, 5+ years architecting on GCP, and hands-on experience with Terraform, GKE, Apigee, and CI/CD.

Qualifications

7+ years in hands-on, client-facing technology roles with at least 5 years architecting and delivering on Google Cloud Platform, with deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, networking, application development, microservices, and modern platform engineering.
7+ years independently owning client engagements from technical design through go-live, with strong dual mastery in technical leadership and delivery management (scope, risk, dynamic client stakeholders).
3+ years 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.
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).
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 with an Associate's degree.

Responsibilities

Own delivery end-to-end: 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.