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Role: AWS Solution Architect (Data & AI Specialist)

Location: London

Career Level: Manager

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. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next‑generation technology to each business challenge.

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• Work for tier-1 clients across industry sectors – helping them turn their cloud strategy into reality.
• Help design and deliver transformative cloud solutions – from migrating legacy applications onto Cloud, to building innovative, new cloud‑native applications.
• Continue to learn and grow – we actively encourage and support continuous learning and certification.
• Serve as a cloud evangelist, educating customers on the value Cloud computing can bring to transform their business.

• Design end-to-end AWS solutions across business, data, and application domains, ensuring scalability and resilience.
• Lead delivery teams and ensure solutions adhere to architectural best practice and governance standards.
• Apply cost optimisation principles and manage budgets effectively to deliver value‑driven solutions.
• Drive cloud‑first strategies, including modernisation of legacy workloads and adoption of serverless and containerised architectures.
• Implement robust security and governance controls, ensuring compliance with organisational and regulatory requirements.
• Guide and mentor consultants, ensuring technical quality and consistency across deliverables.
• Manage strategic cloud initiatives, such as migration programmes, network optimisation, and sovereignty compliance.

• Significant hands‑on experience designing and implementing solutions using AWS cloud services.

• AWS Professional and/or Associate certification (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer).
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.

• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable, secure cloud architectures.
• Experience in cost optimisation and familiarity with cloud best practices.

• Strong understanding of data platforms and analytics solutions.
• Experience designing AI/ML‑driven solutions and data lifecycle management.

• Proficiency in designing application workloads using modern cloud patterns (e.g., serverless, containerised, microservices).
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps practices.

• Deep knowledge of identity, access management, encryption, and compliance frameworks.
• Ability to implement security best practices across cloud environments.

• Understanding of integration patterns and event‑driven architectures.
• Ability to design APIs and hybrid connectivity solutions.

• Experience designing highly available, fault‑tolerant, and scalable solutions.
• Knowledge of disaster recovery strategies.
• Ability to design for performance, resilience, and observability.
• Familiarity with monitoring and optimisation practices.

• Awareness of cloud governance, account management, and compliance standards.
• Ability to enforce auditing and cost allocation strategies.

• AWS Specialty certifications (e.g., Advanced Networking, Machine Learning, Security).

• Advantageous to have experience with other cloud platforms (Azure, Google Cloud).

• Deep understanding of AWS data services (e.g., Redshift, RDS, DynamoDB, Lake Formation).
• Experience building data lakes and analytics pipelines (e.g., Glue, Kinesis, EMR).
• Experience delivering AI/ML solutions (e.g., Bedrock, SageMaker, Comprehend, Rekognition).
• Ability to design data governance and lifecycle management strategies for compliance and scalability.
• Knowledge of real‑time and batch data processing patterns for large‑scale analytics.

In addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 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.

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