AWS – Data Platform Architect Senior Manager / Associate Director
Accenture Australia invites applicants for this senior leadership role, based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The position is full‑time at the Director level, offering a competitive salary ranging from A$160,000.00 to A$180,000.00.
Role Overview
The Data & AI Solution Architect is responsible for combining technical, commercial and industry expertise to develop solutions to complex challenges aligned to business objectives and strategy. This role involves collaborating with stakeholders to understand business problems and requirements, designing solutions—including technical architectures—and guiding teams through implementation.
Focus: Financial Services industry. Candidates should possess deep domain expertise related to key industry challenges and opportunities, data domains, and common technology systems and patterns.
Responsibilities
* Lead cross‑functional teams to understand client business problems, organisational strategy, and define solutions.
* Design and document end‑to‑end architecture and solution designs, both for specific use cases and reusable blueprints.
* Lead implementation of designed architectures, collaborating closely with engineering teams, data scientists, and product owners to deliver incremental business value from initial build through the full platform lifecycle, ensuring on‑time, high‑quality, cost‑effective outcomes.
* Mentor and coach junior architects to build capability.
* Design solutions compliant with data privacy, security, and governance expectations.
Qualifications & Skills
* 10+ years of relevant professional experience.
* Experience leading the design, build and operations of AWS data & AI solutions.
* Proven ability to collaborate closely with ecosystem partners to drive client outcomes.
* Professional level architecture certification in AWS.
* Deep hands‑on data and AI architecture and engineering expertise (Professional level certification and experience), focused on AWS.
* Experience working with multiple data platforms and technologies (Google, AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, Teradata, Informatica, etc.), with deep expertise in AWS.
* Expert in infrastructure as code, DevOps and DataOps to build platforms that are secure, automated, operable and maintainable.
* Demonstrated ability to design for performance, scalability and cost efficiency.
* Familiarity with modern architectural styles and patterns, particularly related to data and integration.
* Excellent problem‑solving skills and ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
* Experience leading multi‑location teams to develop and deliver technical solutions.
* Enthusiastic people developer and mentor, willing to provide technical leadership and mentorship to the next generation of architects and engineers.
* Strong stakeholder engagement and written and verbal communication skills – experience presenting solutions to executive‑level stakeholders, both technical and non‑technical.
* Fascination with industry trends and the application of emerging technologies to drive continuous optimisation and innovation.
* Expertise in data modelling techniques and methodologies, including Data Vault.
* Experience using data modelling tools (e.g., Erwin).
* Deep understanding of sector and industry‑specific data domains and data models.
Benefits
Accenture offers progressive employee benefits covering health, wellbeing, leave options, and sustainability. For full details, visit the Progressive Employee Benefits page.
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