Retail Tech Platform Architect - AI & Cloud Mastery

Accenture PLC; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 133,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Long-term disability

401(k) plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Accenture plc is seeking an experienced Platform Architect to design and unify our core platform ecosystem. You will define the technical strategy across runtime, DevOps tooling, and enterprise AI platforms, delivering scalable, highly available architectures across regions.

You will lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and balance near-term velocity with long-term health. Travel may be required up to 100% to meet client needs and project goals.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software architecture, distributed systems, and platform engineering.
• 5+ years in an architect or technical lead role running massive, internet-scale production environments.
• 3+ years supporting Retail Industry and/or clients; Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience).
• Bonus points for Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, and internal developer platforms.

Responsibilities

• Define technical vision, standards, and roadmaps across runtime infrastructure, developer tooling, and AI platforms.
• Architect scalable, multi-region Kubernetes-based platform with high availability and observability.
• Design self-service internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and automated provisioning to reduce cognitive load.
• Guide platform engineering squads, mentor senior engineers, balancing feature velocity with architectural health.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms AWS/GCP/Azure

DevOps leadership

Distributed systems

AI/ML infra

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/Engineering

Tools

Istio

Kafka

ArgoCD

Flux

Terraform

Pulumi

Backstage

Kubeflow

vLLM

Triton

Ray

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Accenture plc is seeking an experienced Platform Architect to design and unify our core platform ecosystem. You will define the technical strategy across runtime, DevOps tooling, and enterprise AI platforms, delivering scalable, highly available architectures across regions.

You will lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and balance near-term velocity with long-term health. Travel may be required up to 100% to meet client needs and project goals.