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Practice Overview
Skill / Operating Group
Technology Consulting — Cloud Infrastructure & Ecosystem Advisory
Level
Manager
Location
Gurugram / Mumbai / Bangalore / Pune / Kolkata
Travel
Expected travel could be anywhere between 0–100%
Why Technology Consulting
The Technology Consulting business within Global Network invents the future for clients by providing them with the right guidance, design thinking and innovative solutions for technological transformation. As technology rapidly evolves, it is more important than ever to have an innovation advisor who can create a new vision or put one into place to solve the client's toughest business problems. Specialise in management or technology consulting to transform the world's leading organisations by building innovative business solutions as their trusted advisor by:
Helping Clients: Rethinking IT and Digital ecosystems and innovating to help clients keep pace with fast-changing, customer-driven environments.
Enhancing your Skillset: Building expertise and innovating with leading-edge technologies such as Cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Platform Engineering.
Transforming Businesses: Developing customised, next-generation products and services that help clients shift to new business models designed for today's connected landscape of disruptive technologies.
Principal Duties & Responsibilities
Overview
Lead Azure cloud architecture workstreams within large advisory and transformation programs, owning the design and delivery of architecture outcomes end-to-end. Act as the primary day-to-day architecture advisor to client VP and Director-level technology stakeholders — running architecture design sessions, facilitating trade-off decisions, and maintaining the architecture decision log. Own the detailed design of Azure Landing Zones, Management Group structures, Azure Policy assignments, and Entra ID configurations.
Lead the design of cloud security architecture for client engagements — developing Zero Trust network designs, Entra ID and access governance models, encryption frameworks, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud implementations across client Azure environments.
Lead FinOps workstreams — building financial governance frameworks, developing multi-year Azure cost models, designing chargeback and showback mechanisms, and identifying Reservation, Azure Hybrid Benefit, and rightsizing opportunities using Azure Cost Management and Advisor.
Own the IaC and platform engineering architecture for client engagements — defining standards and patterns using Bicep, ARM Templates, and Terraform, and designing the governance model that ensures consistent infrastructure delivery. Lead the design of observability architectures using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and third-party platforms such as Datadog and Dynatrace.
Contribute across adjacent areas — designing the cloud infrastructure that enables AI and agentic workloads using Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, and Azure Machine Learning; providing cloud architecture inputs to Tech Modernization engagements; applying resilience architecture patterns to Technology Resiliency workstreams; and advising on ecosystem decisions covering Microsoft partner network, ISV/MSP selection, and MACC commercial models.
Support business development through proposal contributions, cloud architecture solutioning, and client presentations. Identify and shape follow-on engagement opportunities. Contribute to reusable assets, reference architectures, and points of view that strengthen the practice's cloud architecture advisory capability.
Qualifications & Certifications
Educational Background
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a closely related technical discipline. A Master's degree (MBA, MSc in Cloud Computing, or equivalent) is preferred.
Certifications
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
Other Certifications — Good-to-have
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
Experience
9–14 years of relevant experience in consulting, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise technology organisations. At least 4 years leading cloud architecture workstreams within enterprise advisory or transformation programs, with direct ownership of architecture design and client stakeholder management at VP and Director level.
Hands-on experience designing and delivering Azure environments — Landing Zone configurations, Management Group hierarchies, Azure Policy assignments, Entra ID configurations, VNet and networking designs, and workload placement strategies across compute, storage, and database layers.
Strong experience designing cloud security architecture for client environments — developing Zero Trust network designs, Entra ID and access governance models, encryption frameworks, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud implementations.
Experience leading FinOps workstreams — building financial governance frameworks, developing multi-year Azure cost models, designing chargeback and showback mechanisms, and identifying Reservation, Azure Hybrid Benefit, and rightsizing opportunities.
Experience contributing cloud architecture inputs to adjacent workstreams — providing the Azure platform foundation for AI and agentic workloads using Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, and Azure Machine Learning; supporting Tech Modernization and Technology Resiliency engagements with cloud-native architecture patterns.
Experience supporting business development — contributing to proposals, solutioning, and client presentations; identifying and shaping follow-on opportunities.
Key Competencies & Skills
Competencies
FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES
Strong communication and synthesis — able to engage VP and Director-level technology leaders on cloud architecture strategy, design trade-offs, and transformation roadmaps.
Cloud architecture strategy and roadmap development — able to assess current-state cloud estates, identify architecture gaps, define target-state designs, and build pragmatic transformation roadmaps aligned to business priorities.
Structured problem-solving under ambiguity — able to frame cloud architecture challenges, evaluate trade-offs across cost, performance, security, and resilience dimensions, and produce actionable recommendations.
Financial and commercial acumen — able to build cloud business cases, evaluate hyperscaler commercial models, quantify FinOps value levers, and support investment decisions across cloud platform choices.
Business development support — experience contributing to proposals, solutioning, and client presentations; able to identify and shape follow-on opportunities.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Azure cloud architecture — strong working knowledge of Azure Landing Zones, Management Group structures, Azure Policy, Virtual Network and ExpressRoute designs, compute (Virtual Machines, AKS, Azure Functions), storage (Blob, Files, NetApp), databases (Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Synapse), and Entra ID and security services. Able to own detailed architecture design and lead design sessions with client technical stakeholders. Working knowledge of at least one other hyperscaler.
Cloud security architecture — strong ability to design Zero Trust network architectures, Entra ID and access governance models, encryption frameworks, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud implementations.
Cloud FinOps — strong ability to build financial governance frameworks, develop multi-year Azure cost models, design chargeback and showback mechanisms, and identify Reservation, Azure Hybrid Benefit, and rightsizing opportunities.
Infrastructure as code and platform engineering — strong working knowledge of Bicep, ARM Templates, and Terraform; able to define standards and governance patterns and design auditable infrastructure delivery pipelines.
Observability architecture — strong ability to design observability architectures using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and third-party platforms such as Datadog and Dynatrace.
Containers and cloud-native patterns — working knowledge of Kubernetes (AKS, Azure Container Apps), microservices architecture, serverless patterns, and cloud-native developer platform design.
AI and agentic AI infrastructure — working knowledge of Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, and Azure Machine Learning; able to design the cloud infrastructure layer that enables AI and agentic workloads, including AI-ready landing zones and GPU environment patterns.
Ecosystem advisory — working knowledge of Microsoft partner network, ISV/MSP evaluation, and MACC commercial models; able to advise on vendor selection and commercial trade-offs.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunities
Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
