Cloud Architect

Job Title - Cloud Architect - Associate Manager - ACS SONG

Management Level: Level 8- Associate Manager

Location: Kochi

Must have skills: Cloud Technologies

Good to have skills: Web Applications

Experience: 8-12 years of experience is required

Educational Qualification: Graduation

Job Summary

Work with client and internal teams to design and deliver secure, reliable, and cost-effective cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions. Lead technical discovery, architecture decisions, estimation, delivery planning, and quality assurance from concept through implementation.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead client and supplier workshops to understand the current environment, requirements, constraints, dependencies, and integration interfaces.
• Design and document production-ready infrastructure solutions for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Create proofs of concept where needed to validate designs, reduce technical risk, and improve estimate accuracy.
• Prepare infrastructure cost and effort estimates, including cloud pricing calculations and resource or skill requirements.
• Break solution designs into clear work packages with prerequisites, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and delivery estimates.
• Define infrastructure security concepts and work with client security teams to meet security and compliance requirements.
• Design monitoring, logging, and alerting for cloud, on-premises, monolithic, and microservices-based environments.
• Lead technicians, developers, operations, and DevOps teams; delegate tasks, resolve technical issues, and act as the quality gate for deliverables.
• Track infrastructure risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, and provide updates to the project RAID log.
• Support internal initiatives and represent the company at relevant industry events.

Professional and Technical Skills

• 8–12 years of relevant infrastructure, cloud architecture, or technical consulting experience, with multiple completed projects.
• Successful delivery experience as a Cloud Architect on greenfield and migration projects.
• Hands-on architecture experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform; multi-cloud experience is an advantage.
• Strong technical consulting skills, including workshop facilitation, current-state assessment, requirements analysis, and practical client recommendations.
• Ability to turn complex environments into clear architecture designs, implementation plans, work packages, and estimates.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with experience guiding multidisciplinary technical teams and making architecture decisions.
• Structured approach to priorities, deadlines, dependencies, risks, budget, and quality.
• Working knowledge of security, networking, identity, compute, storage, backup, resilience, monitoring, and cloud cost optimisation.
• Ability to produce architecture designs, migration concepts and plans, cost and effort estimates, pricing calculators, Architecture Decision Records, improvement and technical-debt backlogs, client requirements and constraints, and RAID log updates.

Additional Information

About Our Company | Accenture (do not remove the hyperlink)

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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