Technology​/Retail Platform Architect

Accenture helps the world's leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world.

We bring together the talent of our approximately 814,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes ough our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology.

We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $74 billion in FY26 revenue.

We are seeking an experienced Platform Architect to design, evolve, and unify our core platform ecosystem. In this role, you will define the technical strategy across three critical pillars: our Application Runtime Platforms, our Developer Platform (Dev Ops), and our AI Platform.

Architecture & Strategy:
Define technical vision, standards, and roadmaps across the runtime infrastructure, developer tooling, and enterprise AI platforms.

Core Application Platform:
Architect scalable, multi-region container orchestration (Kubernetes), service mesh, API gateways, and distributed messaging pipelines capable of handling massive load with 99.9%+ availability.

Developer Platform & Dev Ex:
Design self-service internal developer platforms (IDPs), streamlined CI/CD pipelines, automated testing harnesses, and environment provisioning to minimize cognitive load and accelerate cycle times.

Resilience & Reliability:
Institutionalize Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, chaos testing, automated multi-zone/multi-region failovers, and unified observability (metrics, logs, traces).

Technical Governance & Mentorship:
Guide platform engineering squads, mentor senior engineers, and balance near-term feature velocity with long-term architectural health.

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirement.

Minimum of 8 years in software architecture, distributed systems, and platform engineering.

Minimum of 5 years in an architect or technical lead role running massive, internet-scale production environments.

Minimum of 3 years supporting the Retail Industry and/or clients Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience).

If Associate’s Degree, must have equivalent minimum 6-year work experience

Bonus points if:

You have Distributed Runtime Expertise:
Production mastery of Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures (AWS/GCP/Azure), service meshes (e.g., Istio), and high-throughput messaging (e.g., Kafka).

You have Developer Leadership experience:
Proven track record building internal developer platforms, Git Ops workflows (ArgoCD/Flux), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi), and automated developer portals (Backstage or similar).

You have experience with AI/ML Infrastructure:
Experience standing up scalable AI runtime and inference architectures, vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Milvus, Qdrant), model deployment runtimes (vLLM, Triton, Ray), and orchestration frameworks (Kubeflow).

You have experience with Reliability Engineering:
Deep command of SLI/SLO definitions, capacity planning, distributed tracing (Open Telemetry), and disaster recovery architectures.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below. We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 11/28/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.

See more information on our benefits here:

California $132,500 to $302,400

Colorado $132,500 to $261,300

Connecticut $132,500 to $261,300

District of Columbia $141,100 to…