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Hiring companyAccenture
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AI Architect Associate Director
Pune, India Full-time Remote
About the role
AI Architecture Team at Accenture drives cloud‑native and AI‑powered solutions for large transformation engagements. The role leads end‑to‑end solution design, crafts proposal artefacts, and engages senior client technical stakeholders to shape vision and ensure successful handover to delivery. Remote work model with focus on multi‑cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and AI services.
What you’ll do
- Lead solution architecture for cloud‑native and AI engagements
- Define and validate non‑functional requirements (security, resilience, cost, governance)
- Engage client technical stakeholders to co‑shape solution vision
- Produce high‑quality proposal artefacts and executive summaries
- Mentor senior and mid‑level architects within the practice
- Coordinate handover from pre‑sales to delivery teams
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years as Solution Architect or Pre‑Sales Architect
- 18+ years overall IT experience
- Proven track record winning $5M‑$50M cloud/AI deals
- AWS Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert or equivalent
- GCP Professional Cloud Architect or equivalent
- AI/ML certifications (AWS ML Specialty, Azure AI Engineer, Google Professional ML Engineer)
Nice to have
- AWS, Azure, GCP deep expertise
- Kubernetes, Docker, Istio/Linkerd, GitOps
- Terraform, Pulumi, CDK
- CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
- Microservices, API‑led integration, serverless patterns
- Responsible AI and governance knowledge
Skills
AI platformsCloud native architectureJava Spring Boot.NET C#PythonNode.jsMicroservicesResponsible AI