Cloud Advisory Senior Manager

Cloud Advisory Senior Manager Location: London Level: 6 – Senior Manager (Cloud Advisory / Architecture) Mobility: Flexibility to travel to client site when required As a team:   Our Architecture team delivers large-scale transformations from strategy to delivery. As a Senior Manager, you will lead the design of cloud native and hybrid solutions leveraging Accenture’s extensive partner ecosystem. You will own executive relationships and be commercially accountable for shaping and leading programmes, using AI and agentic architectures to accelerate decisions and delivery. Agentic-first delivery: Design solutions where governed AI agents support repeatable analysis and deliver workflow to reduce toil, improve traceability, and help teams maintain focus allow them to spend more time on outcomes rather than manual coordination, Executive advisory: Lead CIO/CTO and security conversations, shape the value case, and turn strategy into pragmatic roadmaps across public, private and hybrid cloud. Use GenAI to speed options analysis and decision packs. Lead at scale: Set design direction across workstreams, run governance forums, and drive growth through origination and proposals. Embed agentic assistants into programme routines (RAID, estimation, requirements, controls evidence). As a Senior Manager Architect, you will work directly with senior client stakeholders to shape, govern, and lead complex transformation programs. Design authority and governance: Own architecture decision-making for large programmes, including review boards, guardrails, standards, and alignment to delivery, regulatory, and audit requirements. Agentic and AI-enabled architecture: Lead designs that incorporate GenAI and LLM platforms for example Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or equivalent alongside agent orchestration and tool use and design scalable AI and ML solutions aligned to business goals, integrating them into existing enterprise landscapes, and embed appropriate LLMOps controls, evaluation and Responsible AI Governance. Strategy, operating model and roadmaps: Translate business goals into target architectures and operating models, define pragmatic modernisation plans, and steer decisions with clear trade-offs. Resilience, security and cost outcomes: Embed zero trust IAM, security-by-design, HA/DR, and operational controls. Define SLOs/SLIs and bake in observability (metrics, logs, traces). Apply AIOps to reduce noise, accelerate incident triage, and improve reliability, and embed FinOps to manage performance and run-cost value at scale. Lead teams and delivery excellence: Build and lead high-performing architects and engineers, sponsor talent, and run effective governance. Use AI assistants to improve delivery cadence and decision quality, including status synthesis, action tracking, risk sensing, and day-to-day SDLC acceleration (requirements elaboration, ADRs, code and test support, and documentation). We are looking for experience in the following (Senior Manager level): Executive advisory: Trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, able to communicate target-state architecture and topology clearly and to drive decisions through strong narrative, options, and trade-offs. Commercial leadership: Commercially accountable for origination support, proposals and RFPs (including client presentations and proposal orals), estimation and commercials, and building long-term client relationships in partnership with alliance teams. Programme and portfolio leadership (AI-enabled): Lead multi-workstream transformations with strong governance, dependencies/RAID, and outcomes tracking. Use AI assistants to synthesise status, highlight risks, and maintain decision logs. Value and controls: Link architecture to benefits (TCO, speed-to-market, risk reduction) and define measurable success criteria. Automate evidence capture where appropriate to support controls and audits. Architecture across cloud + AI: Strong software architecture background spanning