Job Description
Digital Core - Cloud Advisory Senior Manager (Level 6) - London
Level: 6 - Senior Manager (Cloud Advisory / Architecture)
Responsibilities
* Design solutions for cloud native and hybrid architectures leveraging Accenture’s partner ecosystem, owning executive relationships and guiding programmes with AI and agentic architectures.
* Agentic‑first delivery: Design solutions where governed AI agents support repeatable analysis and workflow to reduce toil, improve traceability, and enable teams to focus on outcomes.
* Executive advisory: Lead CIO/CTO and security conversations, shape value case, and turn strategy into pragmatic roadmaps across public, private and hybrid cloud, using GenAI to accelerate options analysis and decision packs.
* Lead at scale: Set design direction across workstreams, run governance forums, and drive growth through origination and proposals. Embed agentic assistants into programme routines.
* Design authority and governance: Own architecture decision‑making for large programmes, including review boards, guardrails, standards, and alignment to delivery, regulatory and audit requirements.
* Agentic and AI‑enabled architecture: Lead designs that incorporate GenAI and LLM platforms and agent orchestration, designing scalable AI and ML solutions aligned to business goals.
* Strategy, operating model and roadmaps: Translate business goals into target architectures and operating models, define modernisation plans and steer decisions with clear trade‑offs.
* Resilience, security and cost outcomes: Embed zero‑trust IAM, security‑by‑design, HA/DR, operational controls, define SLOs/SLIs, apply AIOps and embed FinOps to manage performance and run‑cost value at scale.
* Lead teams and delivery excellence: Build and lead high‑performing architects and engineers, sponsor talent, run effective governance, and use AI assistants to improve delivery cadence and decision quality.
Qualifications and Experience
* Executive advisory: Trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, able to communicate target‑state architecture and drive decisions.
* Commercial leadership: Commercially accountable for origination, proposals and RFPs, estimation, commercials and long‑term client relationships.
* Programme and portfolio leadership (AI‑enabled): Lead multi‑workstream transformations with strong governance, dependencies/RAID and outcomes tracking.
* Value and controls: Link architecture to benefits, define measurable success criteria and automate evidence capture where appropriate.
* Architecture across cloud + AI: Strong software architecture background spanning cloud‑native, integration, and GenAI/agentic patterns.
* GenAI across the SDLC: Practical use of GenAI in delivery, including requirements, ADRs, code and test support, documentation and release readiness.
* Claude skills and agentic automation: Design AI‑based assistants using tools and APIs to automate delivery and governance tasks.
* Integration fluency: Across AWS/Azure/GCP/IBM, including networking, IAM, compute/storage, HA/DR, containers/orchestration, API management, iPaaS and modern engineering patterns.
* Operational excellence, observability and AIOps: Translate NFRs into architecture decisions, define SLOs/SLIs and design modern observability, apply AIOps for continuous improvement.
* Advisory & communication: Simplify complexity, align viewpoints, and negotiate decisions.
* People leadership: Demonstrated experience operating at a senior level, coaching talent and scaling best practices.
Additional Desired Experience
* Thought leadership: Builds reusable assets such as reference architectures, accelerators, POVs and supports go‑to‑market enablement.
* AI‑first and agentic delivery: Embeds GenAI and agent workflows into engineering and programme routines to automate toil‑heavy processes with governance.
* Talent and inclusion leadership: Builds diverse teams and capability plans that improve delivery outcomes.
Locations
Bristol
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