Technology/Retail Platform Architect

Accenture helps the world's leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across industries. With approximately 814,000 people, proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships, Accenture delivers end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale through Reinvention Services spanning Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent — with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. The company serves approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $74 billion in FY26 revenue.

We are seeking an experienced Platform Architect to design, evolve, and unify our core platform ecosystem. In this role, you will define the technical strategy across three critical pillars: Application Runtime Platforms, Developer Platform (DevOps), and AI Platform.

Responsibilities

• Architecture & Strategy: Define technical vision, standards, and roadmaps across runtime infrastructure, developer tooling, and enterprise AI platforms.
• Core Application Platform: Architect scalable, multi-region container orchestration (Kubernetes), service mesh, API gateways, and distributed messaging pipelines capable of handling massive load with 99.9%+ availability.
• Developer Platform & DevEx: Design self-service internal developer platforms (IDPs), streamlined CI/CD pipelines, automated testing harnesses, and environment provisioning to minimize cognitive load and accelerate cycle times.
• Resilience & Reliability: Institutionalize Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, chaos testing, automated multi-zone/multi-region failovers, and unified observability (metrics, logs, traces).
• Technical Governance & Mentorship: Guide platform engineering squads, mentor senior engineers, and balance near-term feature velocity with long-term architectural health.

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years in software architecture, distributed systems, and platform engineering.
• Minimum 5 years in an architect or technical lead role running massive, internet-scale production environments.
• Minimum 3 years supporting the Retail Industry and/or clients.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience). If Associate's Degree, must have equivalent minimum 6-year work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Distributed Runtime Expertise: Production mastery of Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures (AWS/GCP/Azure), service meshes (e.g., Istio), and high-throughput messaging (e.g., Kafka).
• Developer Leadership Experience: Proven track record building internal developer platforms, GitOps workflows (ArgoCD/Flux), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi), and automated developer portals (Backstage or similar).
• AI/ML Infrastructure: Experience standing up scalable AI runtime and inference architectures, vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Milvus, Qdrant), model deployment runtimes (vLLM, Triton, Ray), and orchestration frameworks (Kubeflow).
• Reliability Engineering: Deep command of SLI/SLO definitions, capacity planning, distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), and disaster recovery architectures.

Travel

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirement.

Compensation

Compensation varies depending on factors including specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. The anticipated annual salary ranges by location are:

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

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Life and long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Bonus opportunities
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off