Digital Architect

Digital Architect

Location:

London

Competitive Salary + Package (Dependent on experience)

(Accenture will be recruiting at the following levels - Manager & Consultant)

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.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture:
We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” –
Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

The Architect is the essence of every project we bring to life from streaming live sport across the world, solving health emergencies to serving customers in new ways with innovative new Digital products.

We’re looking for architects who can support the delivery of increasingly transformational digital products that traverse a diverse range of devices (iOS, Android, smart TVs, embedded technology) and plug into an ecosystem of cloud services at massive scale with millions of users.

We need people who are as comfortable at a whiteboard scribbling a design as they are working on detailed specifications for a distributed team of developers. We’re also looking for architects who are as satisfied with their designs as they are the end product, and can problem‑solve and overcome challenges at every stage of the lifecycle.

Perhaps you enjoy sifting insight from vast sources of user data, rapid prototyping a feature to unravel its feasibility or just conducting a really audacious technical test to solve a problem, all of these things combine with collaboration with our delivery leads and product managers to make bring amazing Digital products alive.

• To use the latest in platform engineering including Cloud technologies like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform
• How technical architecture expertise can contribute to new sales activities, communicating why the architecture designs meet current and future business requirements.
• How to deliver scalable platforms serving millions of users for products with a global reach
• How to work day‑to‑day with clients ranging from developers and testers through to product managers and directors

• Lead the end‑to‑end design of performant, secure, robust and maintainable platforms architectures across evolving technologies
• Support the development and delivery into production of the architecture and coach engineers during delivery using a variety of methodologies
• Analyse and resolve architectural problems throughout the lifecycle of the solution working closely with either agile development and operations teams or in a full Dev Sec Ops  model
• Lead technical architecture design and assessment projects at client sites with key client partners
• Cultivate successful, motivated teams across the globe to deliver large transformational technology change for our clients

• An ability to communicate design concepts to both deeply technical development teams as well as non‑technical staff
• A deep and practical working knowledge of one (or more) of the major cloud platforms
• Solid understanding of key architecture concerns such as security, availability, scalability, operability, maintainability and how to ensure that they are delivered as specified
• Knowledge of and experience applying modern architecture principles and patterns
• Experience supporting operational platforms in high‑scale live production environments

• Demonstrable hands‑on experience designing,…