Cloud Advisory Agentic Focussed Consultant
Role: Cloud Advisory Agentic focussed Architecture Consultant
Location: London
Career Level: Specialist
Travel: Flexibility to travel to client sites
Salary: Competitive salary and package (dependant on level of experience)
As a team, you will:
Working at the forefront of multiple industries, our Architecture team leads the design and delivery of some of the largest, most complex, and highest-profile technology transformations in the world. We bring together deep technology, business, and industry expertise to set direction, solve critical challenges, and deliver architectures that scale, endure, and create real impact.
In our team you will:
- Lead and shape conversations with clients, defining and driving solutions to real-world problems through a blend of architecture and engineering across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments
- Set the technical direction, influencing decisions at scale while being backed by industry-leading training, certifications, and structured coaching and mentoring programmes.
As an Architect Consultant, you will:
- Own the Agentic Roadmap: Guide clients through the architectural evolution to active Agentic AI workflows, addressing the complexities of orchestration, state management, and autonomy.
- Ensure Robustness & Security: Own the design of enterprise-wide applications that are highly available, fault-tolerant, and secure zero trust identity and access management (never trust, always verify).
- Drive Strategy & Modernization: Partner directly with clients and where necessary our partner ecosystem to translate business goals into technical requirements, defining target operating models and modernization roadmaps.
- Optimize Value: Drive system performance and cost-efficiency, advising clients on Cloud Economics (FinOps), sustainability (Green Software), and resilience ensuring high performance, observable architectures especially where GenAI and Agentic play a role.
- Champion system performance, resilience, and efficiency: Proactively identifying and addressing consumption and scalability challenges. Champion full stack observability using modern full stack observability, SRE and AIOps.
- Manage & Mentor: Lead teams of architects and engineers, providing technical coaching, career counselling, performance management, and coaching to elevate technical excellence.
We are looking for experience in the following:
- Strategic Architecture: A strong command of software architecture with the ability to link technical decisions to business outcomes (e.g., TCO, speed to market).
- Cloud & Integration Fluency: Proven experience across one or more cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM), including PaaS and API gateway, IaaS including but not limited to network design, connectivity patterns, zero trust IAM, compute, storage backup, HA and DR strategies, container platforms and orchestration and iPaaS
- Agentic Vision: A clear vision for the "Agent Economy." Experience conceptualizing multi-agent orchestration, tool-use patterns, and the governance frameworks required to deploy autonomous agents safely. As a Cloud Advisory Architect, a significant portion of your role will involve defining and delivering agentic solutions, making it critical to demonstrate clear agentic excellence through experience, depth of knowledge, and mastery of AI focused technology stacks.
- Modern Engineering Patterns: Deep expertise spanning Microservices, Event-Driven Architecture, and Domain-Driven Design (DDD).
- Hybrid and multi-cloud : Skilled in hybrid architectures and able to demonstrate where legacy meets cloud
- Operational Excellence: A solid understanding of non-functional requirements and the ability to translate them into robust architectural decisions for critical infrastructure.
- Advisory Skills: The ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders ("Storytelling") and manage senior client relationships.
Will set you apart:
- Engineering/Development : Demonstrated experience working close to engineering and teams, ensuring realistic delivery expectations.
- Developer Repo Contributions : Showcase during interview personal or open-source work, prototypes, accelerators, or reference architectures so that during interview the repo artefacts can be used explain their decisions through architecture diagrams, ADRs, and code samples.
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 25 days’ holiday per year 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:
31/08/2026
Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.
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