AWS Technical Architect

Accenture•St. Louis, MO

5d•$80,400 - $266,300•Hybrid

About The Position

The Accenture AWS Business Group (AABG) is seeking talented professionals to join their AWS Technical Architect team. This role is a core growth driver within Accenture, focused on helping cross-industry organizations reinvent, scale, and compete with the agility required in today’s market. The ideal candidate has hands-on AWS experience, a strong understanding of cloud architecture, and an interest in emerging technologies including AWS Agentic AI services. You will design and contribute to reusable Enterprise Cloud Architecture, Data & AI, Migration, and Agentic AI solution assets. You will also support client pursuits and delivery through presentations, solution workshops, demos, RFP/RFI responses, solution design, estimates, and technical guidance. Collaboration with AWS Partner sales, account teams, solution architects, and technology partners is key, as is staying current on emerging AWS and AI technologies. Travel may be required for this role, varying from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Requirements

Minimum 5 years hands-on keyboard AWS experience, with deeper capabilities and interests in specific services, including cloud, enterprise networking, and AWS-specific services and technologies.
Must have hands-on AWS experience with at least 1 implementation and/or migration into AWS, preferably in an enterprise-scale environment.
Minimum 5 years of experience with core AWS platform architecture, including areas such as: Organizations, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, and segmentation strategies; CloudEndure, MGN, DataSync; Backup and Disaster Recovery approach and design; Environment and application automation; CloudFormation and third-party automation approaches; Network connectivity, Direct Connect, and VPN; AWS Cost Management and Optimization.
Minimum 4 years of proven scripting capability and the ability to develop AWS environments as code.
Minimum 1 year of experience with Automation/IAC solutions, such as CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, etc.
Minimum required AWS certification must include AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate or Professional).
Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)

Nice To Haves

A systems engineering or developer background with the ability to learn quickly and share knowledge with the broader team.
A mindset of automate everything, with experience demonstrating this.

Responsibilities

Design and contribute to reusable Enterprise Cloud Architecture, Data & AI, Migration, and Agentic AI solution assets, including reference architectures, accelerators, frameworks, and proof-of-concept templates.
Support client pursuits and delivery through client presentations, solution workshops, demos, RFP/RFI responses, solution design, estimates, and technical guidance across cloud, data, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI.
Participate in architecture reviews and quality assessments, identifying risks and opportunities for improvement and providing recommendations to delivery teams.
Collaborate with AWS Partner sales, account teams, solution architects, and technology partners to support client solutions, business development, and delivery.
Stay current on emerging AWS and AI technologies and contribute to technical materials, solution approaches, and opportunities to apply new capabilities to client solutions.