Portfolio Dispositioning Associate Manager

Overview

We Are

Accenture is recognized as a global leader in AI and cloud transformation, helping businesses across industries migrate, manage, and optimize their cloud environments. Through partnerships with leading cloud providers such as Nvidia, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, Accenture offers end-to-end services that drive innovation and business agility.

The Cloud Advisory Practice focuses on helping organizations define, plan, and implement innovative AI and cloud strategies that drive business value. Leveraging deep expertise across cloud platforms and technologies, this practice works collaboratively with clients to design scalable, secure, and resilient cloud environments. The practice offers guidance in key areas such as agentic AI infrastructure & hosting, modern cloud foundation, security and resiliency, full-stack Fin Ops, and cloud-native development approaches, ensuring that clients achieve agility, operational efficiency, and long-term growth.

By aligning AI and cloud initiatives with business goals, the practice helps organizations realize the full potential of cloud innovation while navigating industry-specific challenges and regulations.

You Are

As a Portfolio Dispositioning Associate Manager, you will guide organizations through complex cloud transformation initiatives. In this role, you will conduct comprehensive cloud readiness and maturity assessments, develop strategic plans for cloud adoption, and evaluate cloud solutions and platforms. You will also perform application assessments, design migration strategies, and build compelling business cases at a portfolio level for clients embarking on their cloud journey.

Key Areas of Expertise

• Agentic AI infrastructure and hosting
• Cloud readiness maturity assessment, planning and assessment of cloud solutions/platforms & application assessment
• Cloud migration planning
• Cloud migration business case
• Cloud strategy, cloud advisory and cloud transformation
• IT infrastructure, datacenters, network and edge
• IT operating model and Fin Ops
• IaaS, SaaS and PaaS
• AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and OCI

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

• Minimum of 3 years of the following:
• Experience in discovery, assessment, design, and migration of infrastructure & applications from on-premises to hybrid/public cloud.
• Experience should have delivered application and infrastructure assessments for clients, providing a 7R application disposition
• Experience with migration planning, grouping applications for phased migration based on assessment.
• Experience evaluating cloud deployment models and recommending the most suitable model (e.g. IaaS vs PaaS vs SaaS)
• Experience with discovery/assessment tools such as Cloudamize, Azure Migrate, etc.
• Experience in developing cloud adoption business cases.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years work experience). If associate’s degree, must have minimum 6 years’ work experience
• Associate level certification in at least one major cloud provider (Azure, OCI, Google, AWS)
• Professional Skills Requirements
• Strong analytical skills to understand infrastructure & application data and interpret in meaningful way for cloud assessment
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Basic understanding of IT infrastructure (servers, databases, storage, etc.) and application architecture (2/3 tiers, monolithic, containers, etc.)
• Basic knowledge of one or more industry areas (e.g. hospitality, banking, aerospace, retail, supply chain)
• Strong critical thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated leadership, camaraderie, and teamwork in a multi-cultural professional setting
• Experience working in a technology environment in designing and implementing solutions that meet the business needs within project timelines

• Bonus Points If You Have
• Degree in computer science, engineering, physics or math preferred
• Knowledge of PaaS services, Kubernetes, Docker, Cloud foundry, open shift, experience in virtualization platforms (e.g. VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.).
• Understanding of the Dev Ops processes…