AWS Technical Architect
About the role
The Accenture Technical Architect role is a core growth driver within Accenture, focusing on helping cross-industry organizations reinvent, scale, and compete with the agility required in today's market. Organizations seek to modernize operations, accelerate growth, and respond to evolving industry demands. Accenture brings the full strength of its global capabilities—deep industry expertise, ecosystem partnerships, and proven innovation—to make enterprise-grade solutions accessible, scalable, and simplified.
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.
Requirements
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.
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.
Qualifications
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.
Skills
Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, SNS, SQS, etc.
Hands-on experience with AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, etc.
Experience with AWS Cloud Cost Management and Optimization tools.
Experience with AWS Migration services and tools.
Experience with AWS Data Analytics and Machine Learning services.
Experience with AWS Security and Identity Management services.
Experience with AWS Networking and Content Delivery services.
Experience with AWS Serverless and Microservices architecture.
Benefits
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.
Pay
Annual Salary Range: $132,500 to $302,400
Schedule
Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.