Platform Architect

Job Role: Platform Architect

Location: UK (with expected travel)

Career Level: Level 7 (Manager) & Level 9 (Specialist)

Salary: Competitive Salary & Package (Dependent on Experience)

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 509,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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In Industry X we craft the future of making things, and the things we make. Our Industry X team drives innovation by delivering the best-in-class management consultancy based on industrial experience demonstrated by the latest technologies. Evolution of industry practices have been witnessed with evolution of technology. We've been helping businesses embrace and implement the new for years; it is crucial we apply this to manufacturers and products companies, service organizations and software companies, to fuel their next level of growth.

In this role you will:

• Lead the end-to-end design of performant, secure, robust and maintainable platforms architectures across disparate technologies

• Support the development and delivery into production of the architecture and coach delivery teams during delivery using a variety of methodologies

• Analyse and resolve architectural problems throughout the lifecycle of the solution working closely with either agile development and operations teams or in a full DevSecOps model

• Lead technical architecture design and assessment projects at client sites with key client stakeholders

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• A deep and practical working knowledge of one (or more) of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform

• Solid understanding of key architecture concerns such as security, availability, scalability, operability, maintainability and how to ensure that they are delivered as specified

• Knowledge of and experience of the application of modern architecture principles and patterns

• Experience supporting operational platforms in high-scale live production environments

• An ability to communicate design concepts to both deeply technical development teams as well as non-technical staff up to CxO level

• A background of general hands-on experience in related common application and infrastructure technologies and platforms, including some of :

  • Scripting, frontend and backend development

  • Integration – APIs, micro-services, queues

  • General internet / digital technologies – DNS, networking, CDNs, caching, etc.

  • Containerisation – Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

  • Big Data / Streaming Data

Set yourself apart:

• Demonstrable hands-on experience designing, building and maintaining scalable products and platforms

• A track record of using technical architecture and modern engineering principles to improve the end user experience and backend functionality of products and platforms

• Demonstrable experience of upskilling, teaching and managing an engineering or architecture team

• Prior experience working with very senior technical and non-technical stakeholders on business critical systems

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes up to 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

Closing Date for Applications: 31/12/2024

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.