Infrastructure Advisory Lead

Infrastructure Advisory, Senior Manager

Location: London (with expected travel)

Salary: Competitive, plus benefits.

In this role you will:

Accenture’s Infrastructure Architecture & Engineering practice, within our Digital Core Reinvention group, is focused on providing best in class hybrid cloud infrastructure for large enterprise clients. Our team provides full lifecycle cloud and infrastructure services from consulting on strategy to leading large technology implementations. To learn more about the Infrastructure Engineering group, please visit our site.

Accenture’s Enterprise Architects are responsible for defining, governing, and evolving the enterprise-wide infrastructure architecture that underpins business services and digital transformation initiatives. The role ensures that infrastructure platforms, cloud services, networks, compute, storage, end-user computing, security, and operational tooling align to business objectives, regulatory requirements, and enterprise architecture standards.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the enterprise infrastructure architecture roadmap.
• Define future-state infrastructure capabilities and target architectures.
• Align infrastructure investment decisions to business and technology strategy.
• Drive infrastructure modernisation and technical debt reduction initiatives.
• Support merger, acquisition, divestiture, and transformation programmes.

• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale infrastructure solutions.
• Experience delivering large transformation programmes.
• Strong background in cloud and infrastructure modernisation.
• Experience working within regulated environments.
• Demonstrated leadership of architecture governance activities.
• Experience developing executive-level technology strategies and roadmaps
• Infrastructure design, build, and management experience in some of the following areas:
  • Infrastructure fundamentals (e.g., Datacenter, Networks, Compute, Storage)
  • Cloud and Infrastructure Migrations, Operations and Lifecycle management
  • Cloud services (e.g., Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
  • Cloud and Infrastructure Security & Resilience (DR, HA, Backup & Recovery)
  • Virtualization Platforms (e.g., VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix)
  • Container Platforms (e.g., Openshift, EKS, AKS, GKS)
  • Infrastructure Automation (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Python)
• Developing knowledge of AI Infrastructure solutions