Cloud Solution Architecture Consultant

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network. Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create

sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 492,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives.

What to do:

Working closely with our clients, Cloud Solution Architects design, build, and implement strategies that significantly enhance business performance. By developing specialized expertise in strategic, industry, functional, technical, and cloud-centric domains, they navigate a diverse

project environment offering vast opportunities for career growth. The opportunity to impact exciting client initiatives is boundless in the constantly evolving business landscape.

Here are just a few of your day-to-day responsibilities.

• Identifying, assessing, and solving complex business problems within the cloud computing domain, requiring an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

• Performing security design reviews to assess the implications of introducing new or differing technologies, particularly within cloud environments.

• Gaining experience in cloud process automation and standardization to enhance operational efficiency and security posture.

• Leading the identification of a client’s high-level business needs and creating detailed functional specs and documentation, including requirement traceability matrices, work-flow diagrams, and use-cases, tailored for cloud solutions.

• Designing new business processes based on customer requirements, conducting user review sessions, and running stakeholder agreement meetings, applying thought leadership in cloud transformation.

• Driving enterprise business, application, and integration architecture with a focus on cloud solutions, facilitating the transition to modern, cloud-based environments.

• Enabling architecture transformation, illustrating and guiding the journey from the current state to a “to-be” enterprise environment optimized for cloud technologies.

• Architecting solutions in key public cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, ensuring the design and implementation support the strategic business goals.

• Implementing programs/interventions that prepare the organization for the adoption of new business processes within a cloud-first approach.

• Participating in client presentations & orals for proposal defense, effectively communicating the benefits and strategies of cloud adoption.

• Deepening understanding of public cloud vendor cost models and best practices in cost optimization and financial operations (FinOps) within cloud deployments.