Job Title - Cloud Architect - Associate Manager - ACS SONG

Management Level:Level 8- Associate Manager

Location:Kochi

Must have skills:Cloud Technologies

Good to have skills:Web Applications

Experience:8-12 years of experience is required

Educational Qualification:Graduation

Job Summary

Work with client and internal teams to design and deliver secure, reliable, and cost-effective cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions. Lead technical discovery, architecture decisions, estimation, delivery planning, and quality assurance from concept through implementation.

Roles and Responsibilities

- Lead client and supplier workshops to understand the current environment, requirements, constraints, dependencies, and integration interfaces.
- Design and document production-ready infrastructure solutions for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
- Create proofs of concept where needed to validate designs, reduce technical risk, and improve estimate accuracy.
- Prepare infrastructure cost and effort estimates, including cloud pricing calculations and resource or skill requirements.
- Break solution designs into clear work packages with prerequisites, dependencies, acceptance criteria, and delivery estimates.
- Define infrastructure security concepts and work with client security teams to meet security and compliance requirements.
- Design monitoring, logging, and alerting for cloud, on-premises, monolithic, and microservices-based environments.
- Lead technicians, developers, operations, and DevOps teams; delegate tasks, resolve technical issues, and act as the quality gate for deliverables.




- Track infrastructure risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies, and provide updates to the project RAID log.
- Support internal initiatives and represent the company at relevant industry events.

Qualification

Professional and Technical Skills

- 8-12 years of relevant infrastructure, cloud architecture, or technical consulting experience, with multiple completed projects.
- Successful delivery experience as a Cloud Architect on greenfield and migration projects.
- Hands-on architecture experience with AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform; multi-cloud experience is an advantage.
- Solid technical consulting skills, including workshop facilitation, current-state assessment, requirements analysis, and practical client recommendations.
- Ability to turn complex environments into clear architecture designs, implementation plans, work packages, and estimates.
- Strong leadership and communication skills, with experience guiding multidisciplinary technical teams and making architecture decisions.
- Structured approach to priorities, deadlines, dependencies, risks, budget, and quality.
- Working knowledge of security, networking, identity, compute, storage, backup, resilience, monitoring, and cloud cost optimisation.
- Ability to produce architecture designs, migration concepts and plans, cost and effort estimates, pricing calculators, Architecture Decision Records, improvement and technical-debt backlogs, client requirements and constraints, and RAID log updates.

Additional Information

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📌 Cloud Architect (Kochi)
🏢 Accenture
📍 Kochi