Account CTO - Atlanta

Infosys

About The Position

Infosys’ Strategic Technology Group (STG) brings together senior technologists and technical leaders to address complex, large-scale technology challenges. The group works across software design and development, cloud-native architectures, enterprise platforms, data engineering, generative AI, and agentic AI. STG members help shape technology direction, solve business challenges, deliver resilient outcomes, mentor teams, and influence practices across programs. In the Architecture Principal role, the Account CTO partners with business and client stakeholders to elicit requirements, align solutions with business and market needs, and lead the evaluation and design of secure, scalable architectures. The role assesses existing technology landscapes, recommends integrated solutions, and develops transformation roadmaps and milestones aligned with business and technology goals. It also defines modernization strategies, advises technical teams and clients, manages architectural risks and performance optimization, and oversees organizational technical knowledge. The position contributes to proposals and go-to-market materials, represents Infosys in industry forums, and contributes to professional publications. It calls for enterprise-wide digital transformation leadership, trusted relationships with client executives and ecosystem partners, and the ability to guide architecture and engineering decisions from strategic roadmaps through detailed technical design and implementation. The role may require relocation and/or travel to the work or project location. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without employer-based visa sponsorship.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent from an accredited institution, or three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of each year of education.
Experience leading and delivering enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives at company scale for large accounts.
Experience building strategic relationships with client CXOs and technology partners, hyperscalers, startups, academia, and industry ecosystems.
Experience defining reusable transformation frameworks, reference architectures, and solution blueprints used across multiple engagements.
Ability to influence industry-level digital transformation strategies.
Experience defining, evolving, and implementing population-scale platform architecture and strategic platform foundations.
Ability to author design blueprints aligned with functional and non-functional goals.
Experience driving adoption and operationalization of emerging or evolving technologies.
Experience with Lean or Agile development methodologies.
Experience with digital and AI-first architecture, including enterprise application integration, next-generation UI/UX, APIs and microservices, cloud, and agentic AI implementation.
Prior experience as a Chief Architect or Digital Architecture Lead, including detailed technical solution, architecture, and integration work.
Experience personally leading teams of architects on large programs and guiding detailed technical solutions and implementation to ensure program quality.
Technology breadth across enterprise platforms and integration, UI stacks, containerization, REST/Node, functional programming architecture, experience, APIs/microservices, analytics, cloud, and security, with depth in one or more areas.
Strong understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman and practical experience applying one or more frameworks.
Ability to resolve high-risk technical challenges and drive execution across stakeholders.
Authorization to work in the United States for any employer without employer-based visa sponsorship; Infosys cannot provide sponsorship for this role.
Willingness to relocate and/or travel to the work or project location if required.

Nice To Haves

High-level business and process understanding of one or more industries.
Successful personal leadership and delivery of one or more digital transformation programs larger than $10 million with tangible business outcomes.
Strong communication and articulation skills, with the ability to adapt abstraction and detail for CXOs, middle management, and developers.
Ability to perform rough-order-of-magnitude estimation and costing to determine high-level total cost of ownership for large programs.
Deep technology expertise in one or more areas such as digital/mobility, customer/user experience, APIs and microservices, search, content management, digital asset management, commerce, CRM, order management, analytics, cloud, or SaaS/PaaS platforms, and ability to engage in detailed discussions with subject matter experts.
Ability to review detailed design, code, configuration, and data models and provide specific input to architects and developers.
Understanding of products and platforms relevant to digital transformation.
Understanding of leading open-source technologies, frameworks, tools, and NoSQL databases.
Ability to work on cross-cultural teams and support multiple time zones when necessary.
Experience and desire to work in a global delivery environment.

Responsibilities

Partner with business stakeholders and oversee requirements elicitation to align requirements with current and prospective market demands.
Drive scalable, secure architectural designs that comply with standards, include appropriate security measures, and integrate with existing systems.
Lead solution evaluations of client technology landscapes and recommend integrated, stable, future-proof solutions.
Develop and communicate strategic transformation roadmaps and integration milestones across short-, medium-, and long-term horizons.
Define strategies for large-scale transitions and modernization initiatives.
Advise technical teams and client stakeholders, build client relationships, assess feedback, and recommend actions.
Drive enterprise architecture performance optimization and identify technology risks and mitigation strategies.
Oversee the creation and dissemination of organizational technical knowledge.
Collaborate with sales teams on proposals and go-to-market materials, contributing specialized methodologies and architectural solutions.
Represent the organization in industry forums and contribute to professional publications.
Lead enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives for large accounts and build strategic relationships with client CXOs, technology partners, hyperscalers, startups, academia, and industry ecosystems.
Define reusable transformation frameworks, reference architectures, solution blueprints, and population-scale platform foundations.
Translate client objectives into scalable, high-performance solutions and author design blueprints aligned with functional and non-functional goals.
Drive adoption and operationalization of emerging technologies and convert innovation roadmaps into modernization charters and platform capabilities.
Lead architecture and engineering decisions, guide architects, and ensure technical quality in large programs, including detailed solution design and implementation.
Drive execution across stakeholders, resolve high-risk technical challenges, and build critical components.
Develop go-to-market offerings and associated artifacts and collateral for productized solutions.
Demonstrate thought leadership through industry forums, analyst meetings, partner events, client interactions, publications, patents, and intellectual property.