Executive advisory: Trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, able to communicate target-state architecture and topology clearly and to drive decisions through strong narrative, options, and trade-offs.
Commercial leadership: Commercially accountable for origination support, proposals and RFPs (including client presentations and proposal orals), estimation and commercials, and building long-term client relationships in partnership with alliance teams.
Programme and portfolio leadership (AI-enabled): Lead multi-workstream transformations with strong governance, dependencies/RAID, and outcomes tracking. Use AI assistants to synthesise status, highlight risks, and maintain decision logs.
Value and controls: Link architecture to benefits (TCO, speed-to-market, risk reduction) and define measurable success criteria. Automate evidence capture where appropriate to support controls and audits.
Architecture across cloud + AI: Strong software architecture background spanning cloud-native, integration, and GenAI/agentic patterns (e.g., RAG, orchestration, tool use), with a pragmatic approach to delivery.
GenAI across the SDLC: Practical use of GenAI in delivery, including requirements elaboration, ADRs (Architectural Decision Record) code and test support, documentation/runbooks, and release readiness, with quality, traceability, and security controls.
Claude skills and agentic automation: Experience designing AI-based assistants and skills that use tools and APIs to automate repetitive delivery and governance tasks, reducing human toil while maintaining security, auditability, and quality gates.
Integration fluency across AWS/Azure/GCP/IBM (one or more), including networking/connectivity, IAM/zero trust, compute/storage, HA/DR, containers/orchestration, API management, and iPaaS, plus modern engineering patterns such as microservices, event-driven architecture, and DDD.
Operational excellence, observability and AIOps: Translate NFRs into pragmatic architecture decisions, define SLOs/SLIs, and design modern observability (metrics, logs, traces). Apply AIOps for alert reduction, anomaly detection, incident triage, and continuous improvement across hybrid and cloud platforms.
Advisory & communication: Simplify complexity for senior audiences; align diverse viewpoints; and negotiate decisions.
People leadership: Demonstrated experience operating at a senior, account-responsible consulting level. Lead leaders, coach and sponsor talent, and scale good practice through playbooks and communities of practice.
At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes xx days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!
