Technology​/Retail Platform Architect

We Are:
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.

You Are:

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.

The Work:
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

Here's what you need:

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.

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