Cloud Solution Architect

Job description

Role: Cloud Solution Architect

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries – powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 505,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Join Accenture Technology and unleash your skills and transform the world around you. Shape the technology of tomorrow, with the latest digital methodologies and design thinking, like cloud, AI, intelligent automation, DevOps and Agile. Implement innovative solutions to help clients drive disruption and stay ahead of the digital curve. Innovate with the newest technologies. Be part of the New now and change the world with New IT.

Accenture Technology powers digital transformation through services designed to reinvent your application portfolio and a new style of IT. We combine business and industry insights with innovative technology to drive growth for your business. Accenture Technology delivers applications, from design and development through testing and maintenance, while helping clients shift to New IT with our leading-edge capabilities in automation and connectivity. We provide comprehensive service and project delivery for clients around the world using the latest advances in robotics, integrated analytics, automation and artificial intelligence.

Job Description:

A Cloud Solution Architect drives practical Cloud solutions considering all teams, initiatives and long-term outlook. She supports the creation of the artifacts such as: Concept Architecture, Top System Impacts and E2E Solution Architecture document (SP51), Business Case, Solution Risks and Mitigations. She drives large cross domain initiatives that are supported by E2E Design, applies digital standards to progress Solution Architecture. She drives Technical Strategy and architectural tradeoff discussions. She balances key solution factors such as: what the client will buy, what will meet Accenture's financial requirements, what is deliverable at acceptable and understood risk, what will the competition propose. She works closely with the Cloud Advisor to make the right cloud platform choices, understands the MAAG business interests and technology strategy and aligns the solution with these interests to maximize the win probability.

Key Responsibilities:

Create a well-informed cloud strategy and manage the adaption process.

Regularly evaluate cloud applications, hardware, and software.

Develop and organize cloud systems.

Work closely with IT security to monitor the company's cloud privacy.

Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.

Offer guidance in infrastructure movement techniques including bulk application transfers into the cloud.

Identify the top cloud architecture solutions to successfully meet the strategic needs of the company.

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Qualification :

10+ years of relevant experience

5+ years software engineering, development, or technical program management experience.

Experience designing, developing, and shipping solutions on Azure or another public cloud.

Develops and communicates sound plans by determining the time, complexity and processes required to successfully achieve the final outcome.

Ability to meet, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

Expertise in one or more of the following:

Deep domain expertise of cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e. Windows and Linux IaaS, SAP, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS, containers and Infra as a code technologies) required

cloud application development solutions (e.g. PaaS, Serverless, API Management);

container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry);

continuous integration technologies (e.g. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure for DevOps, Chef, Puppet);

web application server technologies, cloud application design, software architecture and practices; (design/development/deployment, Agile, SCRUM, ALM)

one or more of the following programming languages: C++, C#, Java, Node.js, JSON, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby on Rails, Pig/Hive

Experience using integrated development environments (e.g. Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, XCode, WebSphere) targeting Android, iOS, Linux, Windows, public clouds (i.e. Azure, AWS) required

Experience with scalable architectures using Azure App Service, API management, serverless technologies, container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry etc.), API management, microservice frameworks etc.

Software development practices like DevOps and CI/CD tool chains (i.e. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure DevOps, GitHub)

SQL including OSS (postgre, MySQL etc), Azure SQL

NoSQL Databases including OSS (Maria, Mongo etc), Cosmos DB

Big Data including SQL DW, Snowflake, Big Query, Redshift

Advanced Analytics including Azure Data Bricks, visualization tools as PowerBI, Tableau

Data Governance

Data Science

Machine Learning including Azure ML, ML Server

Artificial Intelligence including BOT framework, Cognitive Services

Why join us?

· We offer a transparent, fast paced approach career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues

· You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools

· Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards

· You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends

· You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live

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