Role brief description

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to define, govern, and drive the target-state architecture for a complex enterprise ecosystem spanning multiple cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) .

The successful candidate will be responsible for designing and evolving a secure, scalable, and resilient architecture based on cloud-native microservices , API-led integration , and the gradual modernization of legacy platforms. The role requires balancing business agility, regulatory compliance, security constraints, and interoperability with numerous internal and external stakeholders.

The Enterprise Architect will work closely with business executives, security teams, solution architects, cloud providers, delivery teams, and external organizations to establish architecture standards, govern implementation decisions, and ensure alignment with enterprise strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise target architecture and technology roadmap.
• Establish architecture principles, standards, and governance processes across the organization.
• Lead architecture review boards and design authority forums.
• Drive alignment between business strategy, digital transformation objectives, and technology investments.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and provide recommendations regarding adoption.
• Design and govern enterprise solutions spanning:
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
• Define cloud placement strategies based on:
  • Regulatory requirements
  • Data residency constraints
  • Performance requirements
  • Security classification
  • Cost optimization
• Establish cloud interoperability patterns and integration standards across providers.
• Develop cloud governance frameworks covering security, operations, FinOps, and resilience.
• Define enterprise patterns for:
• Microservices architecture
• Containerization (Kubernetes/OpenShift)
• Service Mesh
• Event-driven architectures
• API Management
• Ensure scalability, observability, resiliency, and operational supportability.
• Promote DevSecOps and Infrastructure-as-Code adoption across engineering teams.

Required Experience

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or cloud architecture.
• Proven experience designing large-scale enterprise systems in multi-cloud environments.
• Demonstrated experience with:
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • OCI
• Strong background in microservices and distributed systems.
• Experience leading large transformation and modernization programs.
• Experience defining enterprise governance models and architecture operating frameworks.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills

About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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