Role: Cloud Advisory Senior ManagerLocation: LondonLevel: 6 - Senior Manager (Cloud Advisory / Architecture)Mobility: Flexibility to travel to client site when requiredAs a team:Our Architecture team delivers large-scale transformations from strategy to delivery. As a Senior Manager, you will lead the design of cloud native and hybrid solutions leveraging Accenture’s extensive partner ecosystem. You will own executive relationships and be commercially accountable for shaping and leading programmes, using AI and agentic architectures to accelerate decisions and delivery.Design solutions where governed AI agents support repeatable analysis and deliver workflow to reduce toil, improve traceability, and help teams maintain focus allow them to spend more time on outcomes rather than manual coordination,Executive advisory: Lead CIO/CTO and security conversations, shape the value case, and turn strategy into pragmatic roadmaps across public, private and hybrid cloud. Use GenAI to speed options analysis and decision packs.As a Senior Manager Architect, you will work directly with senior client stakeholders to shape, govern, and lead complex transformation programs.Own architecture decision-making for large programmes, including review boards, guardrails, standards, and alignment to delivery, regulatory, and audit requirements.Agentic and AI-enabled architecture: Lead designs that incorporate GenAI and LLM platforms for example Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or equivalent alongside agent orchestration and tool use and design scalable AI and ML solutions aligned to business goals, integrating them into existing enterprise landscapes, and embed appropriate LLMOps controls, evaluation and Responsible AI Governance.Apply AIOps to reduce noise, accelerate incident triage, and improve reliability, and embed FinOps to manage performance and run-cost value at scale.Build and lead high-performing architects and engineers, sponsor talent, and run effective governance. Use AI assistants to improve delivery cadence and decision quality, including status synthesis, action tracking, risk sensing, and day-to-day SDLC acceleration (requirements elaboration, ADRs, code and test support, and documentation).Commercial leadership: Commercially accountable for origination support, proposals and RFPs (including client presentations and proposal orals), estimation and commercials, and building long-term client relationships in partnership with alliance teams.Programme and portfolio leadership (AI-enabled): Lead multi-workstream transformations with strong governance, dependencies/RAID, and outcomes tracking. Use AI assistants to synthesise status, highlight risks, and maintain decision logs.Link architecture to benefits (TCO, speed-to-market, risk reduction) and define measurable success criteria. Architecture across cloud + AI: Strong software architecture background spanning cloud-native, integration, and GenAI/agentic patterns (e.g., GenAI across the SDLC: Practical use of GenAI in delivery, including requirements elaboration, ADRs (Architectural Decision Record) code and test support, documentation/runbooks, and release readiness, with quality, traceability, and security controls.Experience designing AI-based assistants and skills that use tools and APIs to automate repetitive delivery and governance tasks, reducing human toil while maintaining security, auditability, and quality gates.Integration fluency across AWS/Azure/GCP/IBM (one or more), including networking/connectivity, IAM/zero trust, compute/storage, HA/DR, containers/orchestration, API management, and iPaaS, plus modern engineering patterns such as microservices, event-driven architecture, and DDD.Apply AIOps for alert reduction, anomaly detection, incident triage, and continuous improvement across hybrid and cloud platforms.Demonstrated experience operating at a senior, account-responsible consulting level. Lead leaders, coach and sponsor talent, and scale good practice through playbooks and communities of practice.Thought leadership: builds reusable assets (reference architectures, accelerators, POVs) and supports go-to-market enablement.AI-first and agentic delivery: embeds GenAI and agent workflows (tool use, approvals, guardrails) into engineering and programme routines to automate toil-heavy processes with appropriate governance and quality controls.Talent and inclusion leadership: builds diverse teams and capability plans that improve delivery outcomes.What’s in it for youAt Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes xx days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!Please note that with all of our roles, you should expect some in-person time for collaboration, learning and building relationships with clients, peers, leaders and communities. As an employer, we will be as flexible as possible to support your specific work/life needs.31/08/2026About AccentureAccenture 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.All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.SummaryLocation: LondonType: Full time
Senior Manager Cloud Architecture in London employer: Accenture
Accenture is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture in London that fosters innovation and collaboration. With competitive benefits like 30 days of vacation, access to fitness classes, and private medical insurance, employees are supported in achieving a healthy work-life balance while also having ample opportunities for professional growth and development within the rapidly evolving field of AI.
