AWS Technical Architect

The Work

The Accenture Technical Architect role is a core growth driver within Accenture, focused on helping cross industry organizations reinvent, scale, and compete with the agility required in today's market. Organizations share bold ambitions and they are undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the need to modernize operations, accelerate growth, and respond to evolving industry demands. Accenture brings the full strength of our global capabilities—deep industry expertise, ecosystem partnerships, and proven innovation—to make enterprise‑grade solutions accessible, scalable, and simplified. Powered by curated offerings, preconfigured solutions, accelerators, and AI‑enabled delivery models, Accenture brings together teams across our global network to help clients drive real ROI, innovate faster, and transform with confidence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop reusable Enterprise Cloud Architecture, Data & AI, Migration & Agentic AI solution assets including reference architectures, accelerators, frameworks, and proof-of-concept templates that enable delivery teams to demonstrate value quickly and shorten time-to-value for client engagements.
• Serve as the primary subject matter expert on AWS Business Group (AABG) solutions during sales pursuits, participating in client-facing presentations, orals, solution workshops, demo development, labor estimates / staffing model design, AWS cost estimation, and RFP/RFI responses to articulate Accenture's technical vision and differentiated capabilities.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership during project delivery, guiding solution design, validating architectural decisions, staffing projects, and advising delivery teams on best practices for data platforms, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI implementations.
• Conduct independent quality assessments and architecture reviews of in-flight projects to evaluate solution soundness, adherence to enterprise standards, risk posture, and alignment with client business objectives — providing actionable recommendations for remediation.
• Author technical whitepapers, solution briefs, and case studies that position Accenture's Cloud Architecture, Agentic AI, Migration, and Data & AI capabilities in the marketplace and support business development efforts.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with key technology partners (including architecture, data platform vendors and AI/ML tooling providers) to ensure proposed solutions leverage the latest platform capabilities and partnership incentives.
• Mentor and upskill delivery architects and technical staff on emerging Enterprise Cloud, Data & AI, Agentic AI, Migration trends, patterns, and technologies — raising the overall technical acumen of the practice.
• Establish and evangelize architecture standards, design patterns, and governance frameworks for AWS Cloud Architecture, Data & AI solutions that ensure consistency, scalability, and quality across engagements.
• Build lasting partnerships with our AWS Partner sales, account teams, and solution architect teams.
• Monitor industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitive landscape in Cloud, Agentic AI, Migration, and Data & AI to inform Accenture's investment priorities, point-of-view development, and strategic positioning.
• Support pursuit teams in estimating level of effort, defining delivery approaches, and shaping statements of work for Cloud Architecture, and Data & AI engagements — ensuring technical feasibility and realistic scoping.
• Champion innovation by identifying opportunities to embed AWS Agentic AI services and advanced analytics into client solutions, driving measurable business outcomes and reinforcing Accenture's reputation as a market leader in Enterprise Cloud Architecture and Data & AI.
• Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here's What You Need

• Minimum 8 years hands-on keyboard AWS experience, with deeper capabilities and interests in specific services. Including in-depth knowledge and technical expertise of cloud, enterprise networking, with depth in AWS specific services and technology.
• Must have hands-on AWS experience with at least 1 implementation and/or Migration into AWS (preferred in an Enterprise scale environment).
• Minimum of 4 years proven scripting capability and the ability to develop AWS EAC (environments as code).
• Minimum 1 year of experience with Automation/IAC (infrastructure As Code) Solutions– CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, etc.
• Minimum required AWS certification must include AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. If Associate's Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with core AWS platform architecture, including areas such as: Organizations, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, segmentation strategies; Cloud Endure, MGN, Data Sync; Backup and Disaster Recovery approach and design; Environment and application automation; CloudFormation and third-party automation approach/strategy; Network connectivity, Direct Connect and VPN; AWS Cost Management and Optimization.

Bonus points if you have

• A system engineering or developer background with the ability to learn quickly and share your knowledge with the broader team.
• A mindset of automate everything, with experience demonstrating this.

Leadership essentials

While delivering results is essential, how you lead is equally important. These are the eight leadership essentials that we value and expect from our leaders:

• Always do the right thing in every decision and action.
• Lead with excellence, confidence and humility as demonstrated by being a learner, building great teams and being naturally collaborative.
• Exemplify client-centricity and a commitment to Client Value Creation.
• Act as a true partner to each other, our clients, our ecosystem and our communities.
• Care deeply for all our people to help them achieve their aspirations professionally and personally.
• Have the courage to change and the ability to bring our people along the journey.
• Live our unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity as demonstrated by personal impact and overall results.
• Actively innovate—seeking new answers, applying a tech, AI and data first mindset, looking internally across Accenture and outside—to partners, competitors, start-ups, clients, academia and analysts—to learn, respectfully challenge our assumptions and apply the innovation, and cultivate and reward our people for doing the same.

Pay

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

• California $132,500 to $302,400
• Cleveland $122,700 to $241,900
• Colorado $132,500 to $261,300
• District of Columbia $141,100 to $278,200
• Illinois $122,700 to $261,300
• Maine $112,900 to $222,500
• Maryland $132,500 to $261,300
• Massachusetts $132,500 to $278,200
• Minnesota $132,500 to $261,300
• New York $122,700 to $302,400
• New Jersey $141,100 to $302,400
• Virginia $122,700 to $278,200
• Washington $141,100 to $278,200

Benefits

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here: U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture.

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