Field CTO: Cloud Platform & App Modernization Leader

Accenture; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

Long-term disability

401(k)

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture seeks an senior Google Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end delivery for cloud infrastructure and application modernization. You will oversee onshore and offshore teams, shape migration strategies, review IaC and pipelines, and ensure secure, scalable platform foundations.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years in client-facing tech roles with 5+ years in GCP architecture, Terraform, GKE, and API gateways. Travel 25–100% may be required.

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 technical design through go-live
• Minimum 3+ years experience hands-on proficiency with Terraform, VPC networking, GKE, Apigee/API gateways, Cloud Run, compute services, and CI/CD pipelines
• Minimum 3+ years experience implementing security-by-design principles (IAM, org policies, encryption, network segmentation, compliance controls) alongside modern software engineering practices
• 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: Single point of accountability for scope, schedule, engineering quality, platform security, and business outcomes across infrastructure and application modernization workstreams
• Design execution approaches: Define migration waves, application refactoring patterns (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 and 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

GCP expertise

Terraform

GKE

Apigee

CI/CD

Security-by-design

Leadership

Client engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Cloud Build

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Accenture seeks an senior Google Cloud Architect to lead end-to-end delivery for cloud infrastructure and application modernization. You will oversee onshore and offshore teams, shape migration strategies, review IaC and pipelines, and ensure secure, scalable platform foundations.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years in client-facing tech roles with 5+ years in GCP architecture, Terraform, GKE, and API gateways. Travel 25–100% may be required.