Technology/Retail Platform Architect
$133k - $302k • Remote • MN - Minneapolis
Posted 2d ago
Job Location
MN - Minneapolis
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Categories
AI Infrastructure Engineer
About the job
Accenture is seeking an experienced Platform Architect to design, evolve, and unify its core platform ecosystem. This role involves defining the technical strategy across three critical pillars: Application Runtime Platforms, Developer Platform (DevOps), and AI Platform. The architect will be responsible for establishing technical vision, standards, and roadmaps, and for architecting scalable, highly available systems. This includes designing container orchestration, service mesh, API gateways, and distributed messaging pipelines, as well as developing self-service internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing. The role also emphasizes institutionalizing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, chaos testing, and unified observability, while guiding platform engineering squads and mentoring senior engineers.
Responsibilities
- Define technical vision, standards, and roadmaps for runtime infrastructure, developer tooling, and enterprise AI platforms.
- Architect scalable, multi-region container orchestration (Kubernetes), service mesh, API gateways, and distributed messaging pipelines.
- Design self-service internal developer platforms (IDPs), streamlined CI/CD pipelines, automated testing harnesses, and environment provisioning.
- Institutionalize Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, chaos testing, automated multi-zone/multi-region failovers, and unified observability.
- Guide platform engineering squads and mentor senior engineers.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years in software architecture, distributed systems, and platform engineering.
- Minimum of 5 years in an architect or technical lead role running internet-scale production environments.
- Minimum of 3 years supporting the Retail Industry and/or clients.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience), or Associate's Degree with minimum 6-year work experience.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Bonus opportunities
- Paid holidays
- Paid time off