AWS (AABG) Mid-Market Technical Architect
Accenture · Chicago, United States +37 · 3d ago
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The AWS Practice is home to our deepest AWS experts and supports Accenture’s more than 1,500 certified AWS architects across the company. Join our team and be among Accenture’s most talented AWS practitioners, our AWS SWAT team. The group is responsible for Accenture’s most complex AWS projects and provides our delivery capability for the Accenture AWS Business Group (AABG). AABG is the deepest relationship Amazon Web Services has with any partner in the ecosystem. Choosing Accenture and the AWS Practice will take your AWS experience and skills to the next level and allow you to work in an innovative and collaborative environment. At Accenture, you can lead the world’s largest enterprises on the path to native cloud transformation and serverless, on the leading edge of cloud.
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The Accenture Mid-market business is a core growth driver within Accenture, focused on helping Mid-market companies reinvent, scale, and compete with the agility required in today’s market. Mid-market organizations share the same bold ambitions as large enterprises, they are undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the need to modernize operations, accelerate growth, and respond to evolving industry demands. Accenture brings the full strength of our global capabilities—deep industry expertise, ecosystem partnerships, and proven innovation—to make enterprise‑grade solutions accessible, scalable, and simplified for mid‑market needs.
Powered by curated offerings, preconfigured solutions, accelerators, and AI‑enabled delivery models, Accenture Mid-market brings together teams across our global network to help clients drive real ROI, innovate faster, and transform with confidence. The Mid-market portfolio spans repeatable, industrialized solutions across technology, operations, security, cloud, and industry-specific needs to meet clients where they are on their reinvention journey.
We are looking to expand our Mid-market team with the best talent, who have experience in the mid-market, across the business suite, and across functions, that will enable us to continue to drive transformations at scale.
Responsibilities include :
Design and develop reusable Enterprise Cloud Architecture, Data & AI solution assets — including reference architectures, accelerators, frameworks, and proof-of-concept templates — that enable delivery teams to demonstrate value quickly and shorten time-to-value for client engagements.
Serve as the primary subject matter expert on Mid-Market AWS Business Group (AABG) solutions during sales pursuits, participating in client-facing presentations, orals, solution workshops, and RFP/RFI responses to articulate Accenture's technical vision and differentiated capabilities.
Provide hands-on technical leadership during project delivery, guiding solution design, validating architectural decisions, and advising delivery teams on best practices for data platforms, analytics, machine learning, and generative AI implementations.
Conduct independent quality assessments and architecture reviews of in-flight projects to evaluate solution soundness, adherence to enterprise standards, risk posture, and alignment with client business objectives — providing actionable recommendations for remediation.
Author technical whitepapers, solution briefs, and case studies that position Accenture's Cloud Architecture and Data & AI capabilities in the marketplace and support business development efforts.
Build and maintain strategic relationships with key technology partners (including architecture, data platform vendors and AI/ML tooling providers) to ensure proposed solutions leverage the latest platform capabilities and partnership incentives.
Mentor and upskill delivery architects and technical staff on emerging Enterprise Cloud, Data & AI trends, patterns, and technologies — raising the overall technical acumen of the practice.
Establish and evangelize architecture standards, design patterns, and governance frameworks for Data & AI solutions that ensure consistency, scalability, and quality across engagements.
Monitor industry trends, emerging technologies, and competitive landscape in Data & AI to inform Accenture's investment priorities, point-of-view development, and strategic positioning.
Support pursuit teams in estimating level of effort, defining delivery approaches, and shaping statements of work for Cloud Architecture, and Data & AI engagements — ensuring technical feasibility and realistic scoping.
Champion innovation by identifying opportunities to embed AI and advanced analytics into client solutions, driving measurable business outcomes and reinforcing Accenture's reputation as a market leader in Enterprise Cloud Architecture and Data & AI.
Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.
Here’s What You Need:
- Minimum 7 years hands-on keyboard AWS experience, with deeper capabilities and interests in specific services. Including in-depth knowledge and technical expertise of cloud, enterprise networking, with depth in AWS specific services and technology
- Must have hands-on AWS experience with at least 1 implementation and/or Migration into AWS (preferred in an Enterprise scale environment)
- Minimum of 4 years proven scripting capability and the ability to develop AWS EAC (environments as code)
- Minimum 1 year of experience with Automation/IAC (infrastructure As Code) Solutions– CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins, etc.
- Minimum required AWS certification must include AWS Certified Solution Architect (Associate or Professional)
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience
- Minimum 1 year of experience with core AWS platform architecture, including areas such as:
- § Organizations, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, segmentation strategies
- § CloudEndure, MGN, DataSync
- § Backup and Disaster Recovery approach and design
- § Environment and application automation
- § CloudFormation and third-party automation approach/strategy
- § Network connectivity, Direct Connect and VPN
- § AWS Cost Management and Optimization
Bonus points if you have:
- A system engineering or developer background with the ability to learn quickly and share your knowledge with the broader team.
- A mindset of automate everything, with experience demonstrating this.
Leadership essentials:
While delivering results is essential, how you lead is equally important. These are the eight leadership essentials that we value and expect from our leaders:
- Always do the right thing in every decision and action
- Lead with excellence, confidence and humility as demonstrated by being a learner, building great teams and being naturally collaborative
- Exemplify client-centricity and a commitment to Client Value Creation
- Act as a true partner to each other, our clients, our ecosystem and our communities
- Care deeply for all our people to help them achieve their aspirations professionally and personally
- Have the courage to change and the ability to bring our people along the journey
- Live our unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity as demonstrated by personal impact and overall results
- Actively innovate—seeking new answers, applying a tech, AI and data first mindset, looking internally across Accenture and outside—to partners, competitors, start-ups, clients, academia and analysts—to learn, respectfully challenge our assumptions and apply the innovation, and cultivate and reward our people for doing the same
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We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 10/01/2026.
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Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $94,400 to $266,300
Colorado $94,400 to $230,000
Connecticut $94,400 to $230,000
District of Columbia $100,500 to $245,000
Illinois $87,400 to $230,000
Maine $80,400 to $196,000
Maryland $94,400 to $230,000
Massachusetts $94,400 to $245,000
Minnesota $94,400 to $230,000
New York $87,400 to $266,300
New Jersey $100,500 to $266,300
Ohio $87,400 to $213,000
Virginia $87,400 to $245,000
Washington $100,500 to $245,000
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