Technology Strategy Lead for Defense & Cloud Transformation

Accenture Federal Services; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 193,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Technology Strategy Senior Manager to serve as a trusted advisor to Defense clients. In this role, you will shape and execute business transformation agendas through the strategic application of technology, linking IT architecture to business goals.

You will lead blueprint development, roadmaps, and governance across cloud, edge, and platform architectures, ensuring security, compliance, and alignment with Federal Zero Trust principles.

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing and operating multiple IT capabilities at a large enterprise.
• Experience with AD, identity federation, and SSO across federal environments.
• Experience with public cloud (AWS, Azure, Google) and FedRMF/ATO processes.

Responsibilities

• Understand the client's business strategy and lead the definition of the link between their technology and the overall architecture landscape, including organization, information, and infrastructure & applications.
• Quickly assess the client's IT operating model, including organizational structure, processes, and governance.
• Conduct rigorous analysis to identify the client's key IT strengths and weaknesses, leveraging your deep technology and industry knowledge.
• Coordinate the creation of blueprints, recommendations, and actionable roadmaps for complex and large technology environments. This includes building future‑proof architectures using modern technologies like cloud, edge computing, next-gen connectivity, event streaming, and platform architectures.
• Manage the full lifecycle of strategy definition, ensuring the right setup during the process and functioning as a guardian of the architecture to ensure initiatives and roadmap development align with the set guidelines without jeopardizing business objectives.

Skills

IT strategy

Architecture governance

Cloud architecture

Zero Trust

IAM / ICAM

Public cloud

Datacenter design

Network optimization

Tools

MS Active Directory

Identity Federation

SSO SAML OAuth OIDC

PKI

Event streaming

Job description

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Technology Strategy Senior Manager to serve as a trusted advisor to Defense clients. In this role, you will shape and execute business transformation agendas through the strategic application of technology, linking IT architecture to business goals.

You will lead blueprint development, roadmaps, and governance across cloud, edge, and platform architectures, ensuring security, compliance, and alignment with Federal Zero Trust principles.