1 day ago
Albany, NY, USA +40 moreSenior
Base Salary
$113k - $302k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define technical vision, standards, and roadmaps across application runtime, developer, and AI platforms.
- Architect scalable multi-region container orchestration, service meshes, API gateways, and distributed messaging pipelines with 99.9%+ availability.
- Design internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing harnesses, and environment provisioning.
- Establish SRE practices, chaos testing, automated failover, observability, capacity planning, and disaster recovery architectures.
- Guide platform engineering squads, mentor senior engineers, and balance delivery speed with long-term architectural health.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in software architecture, distributed systems, and platform engineering.
- At least 5 years in an architect or technical lead role operating massive, internet-scale production environments.
- At least 3 years supporting the retail industry and/or retail clients.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with at least 12 years of work experience, or an associate degree with equivalent minimum 6-year work experience.
- Preferred experience includes Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure, service meshes, Kafka, internal developer platforms, GitOps, infrastructure-as-code, developer portals, AI runtime and inference architectures, vector databases, model deployment runtimes, Kubeflow, SLI/SLO definitions, capacity planning, OpenTelemetry, and disaster recovery.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage.
- 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.
- Travel may be required and may range from 0% to 100% depending on business and client needs.
- The posting is anticipated to remain open until 11/28/2026.
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About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services firm providing management consulting, systems integration and technology, cybersecurity, and business process outsourcing for enterprises and governments. It operates a services-driven model delivering projects and managed services, often with major cloud and software partners, across industries worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin and publicly traded on the NYSE (ACN), it originated as Andersen Consulting and adopted the Accenture name in 2001.