Cloud Architecture Consultant - GCP

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Accenture Strategy shapes our clients’ future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Our focus on issues such as digital disruption, redefining competitiveness, operating and business models as well as the workforce of the future helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world. Today, every business is a digital business. Digital is changing the way organizations engage with their employees, business partners, customers, and communities how they manufacture and deliver products and services, and how they run their organizations. This is our unique differentiator. We seek people who recognize and understand the impact that digital, and technology have on every industry and every sector, and share our passion to shape unique strategies that allow our clients to succeed in this environment.

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Practice Overview

Skill/Operating Group: Technology Consulting

Level: Consultant

Location: Gurgaon/Mumbai/Bangalore/Pune/Kolkata/Hyderabad

Travel Percentage: Expected Travel could be anywhere between 0-100%

Why Technology Consulting

The Technology Consulting business within Global Network invents the future for clients by providing them with the right guidance, design thinking and innovative solutions for technological transformation. As technology rapidly evolves, it’s more important than ever to have an innovation advisor who can create a new vision or put one into place to solve the client’s toughest business problems. Specialize in management or technology consulting to transform the world's leading organizations by building innovative business solutions as their trusted advisor by:

• Helping Clients: Rethinking IT and Digital ecosystems and innovating to help clients keep pace with fast-changing, customer-driven environments.
• Enhancing your Skillset: Building expertise and innovating with leading-edge technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud.
• Transforming Businesses: Developing customized, next-generation products and services that help clients shift to new business models designed for today's connected landscape of disruptive technologies.

Principal Duties And Responsibilities for a Cloud Architecture Consultant - GCP

This project environment offers multiple opportunities for career growth. The opportunities to make a difference within exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing business landscape. Here are just a few of your day-to-day responsibilities:

• Lead Large-Scale GCP Projects: Guide clients through application modernization and migration initiatives, designing strategies and roadmaps tailored to GCP.
• Architect GCP Solutions: Develop cloud architectures using GCP services (Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, etc.), ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Application Modernization: Design composable architectures leveraging microservices, event-driven architectures (EDA), and GCP-native technologies.
• Cloud Migration: Build and execute migration plans from on-premises or other clouds to GCP, including assessment, planning, and hands-on delivery.
• DevOps & Automation: Implement CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (Terraform, Deployment Manager), and automated operations using GCP tools.
• Data Integration & Analytics: Architect data platforms on GCP, integrating data sources and enabling advanced analytics and machine learning.
• Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Integration: Design and implement hybrid cloud solutions using GCP’s Anthos, ensuring seamless integration with on-premises and other cloud environments.
• Client Advisory: Serve as a trusted advisor, communicating GCP architecture, best practices, and transformation strategies to technical and business stakeholders.
• Thought Leadership: Develop reusable assets, publish whitepapers, and contribute to GCP community knowledge.
• Business Case & ROI Analysis: Build financial models for cloud adoption, including TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and ROI. Advise on cost optimization strategies and AWS pricing models.
• Operating Model Design: Design cloud operating models for governance, security, and compliance. Recommend organizational changes for cloud adoption (e.g., Cloud Center of Excellence).
• Resilience & DR Strategy: Define RTO/RPO tiers, multi-region patterns, backup/restore policies.
• Design Architecture Review Board charters, NFR baseline templates.
• AI Strategy & Enablement: Advise clients on leveraging GCP AI services (Vertex AI, Generative AI Studio, Duet AI) to accelerate innovation and digital transformation.

Key skills/competency

• GCP Cloud Architecture
• Application Modernization
• Cloud Migration Strategy
• DevOps Automation
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Data Analytics on GCP
• Hybrid Cloud Solutions
• AI Strategy & Enablement
• Client Advisory
• Stakeholder Management