Join Accenture as a RIS AWS (Agentic AI) Solution Architect Associate Director in London, United Kingdom. This full-time role involves leading end-to-end solutioning for AWS transformation, cloud migrations, and cutting-edge agentic AI opportunities for major UK and EMEA enterprises.
Requirements
Strong record in architecting, solutioning, and selling AWS-centric transformation and migration solutions for enterprise clients.
Deep AWS architecture skills across landing zones, networking, IAM, security, compute, containers, serverless, storage, databases, observability, and operations.
Practical knowledge of AWS AI services, especially Amazon Bedrock, agent design, RAG, and guardrails.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional and/or Specialty certifications are preferred bonus points.
No specific degree requirement or minimum years of experience threshold is explicitly stated.
Skills & Responsibilities
AWS Architecture: Lead end-to-end solutioning and current-state assessments for complex cloud journeys, data-centre exits, and multi-cloud transformations.
Agentic AI Solutions: Design production-ready AI and agentic solutions using Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore services, Knowledge Bases, and RAG patterns.
Commercial Leadership: Develop commercially credible business cases, proposal narratives, delivery estimates, phased roadmaps, and risk positions.
Stakeholder Engagement: Act as an AWS evangelist with C-suite and senior technology stakeholders, connecting technical architecture to business outcomes.
Potential transition routes: People from Senior Cloud Architect or AWS Practice Lead roles may bring deep cloud infrastructure and client management skills, alongside meeting complex enterprise solutioning requirements.
Job description
The Work:
Lead end-to-end solutioning for AWS transformation, migration, modernisation, data and AI opportunities across major UK and EMEA clients.
Shape AWS-native agentic AI solutions that move clients from proof of concept to production, using Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore, agents, RAG, guardrails, orchestration, observability and operational controls.
Architect complex cloud journeys including VMware/data-centre exit, mainframe and .NET modernisation, SAP on AWS, data lakes, analytics, platform engineering, security and managed run.
Develop commercially credible business cases, proposal narratives, estimates, delivery models, assumptions and risk positions.
Collaborate closely with sales, account teams, AWS field teams, delivery, security, data/AI and industry SMEs to build differentiated propositions.
Act as an AWS evangelist with C-suite and senior technology stakeholders, connecting technical architecture to measurable business outcome.
Main Responsibilities:
Own AWS solution strategy for large cloud opportunities, ensuring architecture, technology choices, delivery model, commercials and transformation roadmap are coherent.
Lead current-state assessments across applications, infrastructure, VMware estates, data platforms, integration, security and operations to define the target AWS pathway.
Design AWS cloud foundations using landing zone, network, IAM, security, observability, resilience and FinOps patterns appropriate for regulated enterprise use.
RIS AWS (Agentic AI) Solution Architect Associate Director
London
Deep AWS architecture skills across landing zones, networking, IAM, security, compute, containers, serverless, storage, databases, observability and operations.
Experience with large application migration and modernisation programs, including VMware, data-centre exit, application portfolio assessment and wave planning.
Practical knowledge of AWS AI services, especially Amazon Bedrock, agent design, RAG/Knowledge Bases, guardrails, model evaluation and production AI operating models.
Ability to create commercial solutions: business case, delivery estimate, phased roadmap, assumptions, risks and value narrative.
Strong consulting presence, communication and leadership skills; comfortable working with CIO/CTO/CDO, finance and operations stakeholders.
Bonus Points
If You Have AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional and/or Specialty certifications in security, networking, data analytics, machine learning or DevOps.
Experience with AgentCore, AWS Transform, Kiro, DevOps/Security Agent concepts, Amazon Nova, SageMaker AI or multi-agent collaboration patterns.
Experience shaping public sector, defence, regulated financial services, sovereign cloud or national infrastructure opportunities.
Evidence of deal wins, reusable assets, co-innovation with AWS or delivery leadership across complex transformation programs.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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