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About the job

As a Technology Architect, your responsibilities include:

• Manage and coordinate involved technology teams in on- and offshore locations across multiple offerings and projects.
• Develop technical solution designs and create corresponding cost estimates.
• Present and discuss solutions with client and account executives.
• Help our clients to simplify and improve their operations by developing business cases, analyzing clients’ as-is processes and creating technology solutions that support the client’s business drivers.
• Assess the business impact/return on investment for the more complex components of the technology solution.
• Facilitate client workshops, document business requirements, and develop them into a proposed business case and solution design.
• Act as a clients’ key contact on the proposed technology solution.
• Align technology solution components to business standards.

Qualifications
Your background

• 2 to 8 years of relevant experience & proven success in architecting, delivering or operating cloud solutions
• Bachelor’s Degree in ICT, Master’s Degree in Engineering or Master’s Degree in Industrial Sciences.
• In-depth knowledge of cloud industry trends, including public, private & hybrid cloud platforms & technologies such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platforms.
• Strong Architecture skills across all platforms and ability to communicate design concepts to both deeply technical development teams as well as non-technical staff up to CxO level.
• Familiarity with Agile, DevOps, and CICD tool-chains.
• Strong interest in innovative technologies and desire to work on pioneering engagements.
• Understanding & experience of the challenges associated with managing & delivering cloud programs across the project life cycle.
• Knowledge of operational, support & security challenges associated with taking a client on a journey to the Cloud utilizing an “As a Service” model.
• Evidence of personal development relating to cloud are a plus, such as cloud provider certifications (AWS, GCP, Azure or equivalent), enterprise architecture (TOGAF).

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Job Description:

• Participate on a team designing, building and/or testing infrastructure and cloud infrastructure focused solutions
• Develop and deliver strategies and solutions for enterprise infrastructure operations
• Thoroughly document all facets of infrastructure solutions
• Apply Accenture methodology, Accenture reusable assets and previous work experience to deliver consistently high-quality work
• Deliver written or oral status reports regularly
• Stay educated on new and emerging market offerings that may be of interest to our clients
• Adapt to existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately to complex problems
• Understand the strategic direction set by management as it relates to team goals
• Use considerable judgment to contribute to solutions and seek guidance on complex problems
• Manage small teams and/or work efforts at a client or within Accenture

Here's what you need:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience
• Minimum of 2 years of project management experience serving as a team lead, technical lead and/or delivery lead
• Minimum of 2 years infrastructure/network discovery, design, build, and migration experience
• Minimum of 2 years Infrastructure (Server, Storage, and Database) discovery, design, build, and migration experience.
• Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in 3 of the following areas:
• Server Operating Systems (e.g. Microsoft Windows, Unix, Linux, etc.)
• Storage (EMC, NetApp, Glacier, S3, etc.)
• Virtualization Platforms (e.g. VMware, Hyper-V, etc.)
• Cloud Computing and Storage (AWS, Azure)
• Workload Migration Automation Tools (Double-Take, Racemi, etc.)
• Cloud Management Platforms (vRealize, Gravitant, etc.)
• Infrastructure Automation (Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
• Collaboration (Microsoft SharePoint, Skype for Business, Yammer, OneDrive)

Bonus Points if:

• Infrastructure technology certifications including but not limited to AWS/Azure/GCP/VMWare
• Previous consulting or client service delivery experience
• Curious about emerging technologies and motivated to learn and stay abreast of developments in the cloud and hosting domain