Cloud Strategy & Advisory Assoc Director/Senior Manager

We Are

Accenture is recognized as a global leader in cloud transformation, helping businesses across industries migrate, manage, and optimize their cloud environments.

Through partnerships with leading cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, Accenture offers end-to-end services that drive innovation and business agility.

The Cloud Advisory Practice focuses on helping organizations define, plan, and implement innovative cloud strategies that drive business value.

Leveraging deep expertise across cloud platforms and technologies, this practice works collaboratively with clients to design scalable, secure, and resilient cloud environments.

The practice offers guidance in key areas such as modern cloud foundation, security and resiliency, full-stack FinOps, and cloud-native development approaches, ensuring that clients achieve agility, operational efficiency, and long-term growth.

By aligning cloud initiatives with business goals, the practice helps organizations realize the full potential of cloud innovation while navigating industry-specific challenges and regulations.

The Work

As a Cloud Strategy and Advisory Manager, you will guide organizations through complex cloud transformations. With a proven track record in both stakeholder relationship management and cloud strategy definition, you will ensure that cloud strategies are aligned with broader business goals.

You will lead cloud projects, from strategy development to execution, ensuring that solutions meet security, scalability, and financial targets, while working effectively in uncertain, dynamic environments.

Professional Skills Requirements

As part of this role, you are expected to have :

• The ability to explain IaC to customers, including concepts such as :
• Pipelines
• Mutable vs Immutable infrastructure
• The difference between IaC, CI / CD, and DevSecOps
• Experience explaining complex technical concepts to an executive / non-technical audience. Example : Explaining the benefits and draw backs of various cloud and infrastructure design choices to senior IT leadership (CIO or VP level)
• Deep knowledge of one or more industry areas (e.g. Hospitality, Banking, Aerospace, Retail, Supply Chain)
• An understanding of Infrastructure and Cloud outsourcing
• Strong Critical Thinking, Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills
• Excellent Communication and Interpersonal Skills. You will be expected to communicate business value for all technical solutions all the way to the C-Suite in some cases.
• Demonstrated leadership, comradery, and teamwork in a multi-cultural professional setting
• Experience working in a technology environment in designing and implementing solutions that meet the business need within project timelines
• Provided estimations, project plans and resource requirements for designed solutions
• Led and guided technical leads, engineers and developers according to architecture and have conducted technical review

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Key Areas of Expertise :

• Cloud Strategy, Cloud Advisory, Cloud Transformation, Cloud Optimization
• Cloud Solutions Design, Applications Cloud Architecture, Application Integration
• IT Infrastructure, Datacenters, Network, Edge
• IT Operating Model, FinOps
• IaaS, SaaS, PaaS
• AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, OCI, ServiceNow
• IT Security and Compliance
• Project and Program Management
• Data & AI, Snowflake, Fabric, Databricks
• Cloud Automation, DevSecOps

Here's what you need

• Certification in at least one major cloud provider (Azure, OCI, Google, AWS) or equivalent industry experience
• Minimum of 8 years of experience creating and operating infrastructure teams and driving Cloud transformation programs with a strong perspective on cloud-based modernizations, including Lift & Shift, re-platforming and re-architecture
• Minimum of 8 years of hands-on experience in the creation of cloud, infrastructure, and / or data center architectures and designs, including implementation experience for cloud or infrastructure architectures
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with an operations team and the associated tool sets such as ServiceNow
• Minimum of 3 years of experience evaluating applications for migration and determining the best method and target environments
• Minimum of 2 years in a consulting field selling to customers
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associates Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience

Bonus points if you have

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Math preferred
• Experience with major Firewall and Security tools
• An understanding of TCP / IP routing / switching
• Experience with at least one major RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Postgres) or a Non-Relational DBMS (Mongo DB, Couch, Neo4j, Dynamo, Cosmos)
• Industry specific experience (Financial Services, Health & Public Services, Resources, Products, Communications and Media Tech)
• Experience with Cloud Native, Containers and Serverless Architectures

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Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $131,100 to $302,400

Colorado $131,100 to $261,300

District of Columbia $139,600 to $278,200

New York $121,400 to $302,400

Maryland $121,400 to $241,900

Washington $139,600 to $278,200

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