Trusted Data Architect - Data Innovation

Trusted Data Architect – Data Innovation Location: London / Manchester Salary: Competitive salary and package dependent on experience Career Level: Senior Manager 

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Role Overview

Within Accenture’s Data Innovation team, we deliver Trusted Data Services leveraging cutting-edge technologies including Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), Digital Identity, Digital Assets, and Confidential Compute. As a Trusted Data Architect, you will play a critical role in shaping, leading, and industrializing trust-centric digital platforms for global enterprise and public-sector clients.

This role requires deep expertise in trusted data technologies and platform architecture, with equal applicability across:

• DLT / Blockchain platforms (Layer 1 and Layer 2)

• Digital Identity solutions (decentralized identity, credentials, wallets, trust frameworks)

• Digital Asset platforms (tokenization, custody, lifecycle management, on-chain/off-chain integration) 

You will combine hands-on technical authority with end-to-end delivery ownership, client advisory responsibility, and practice leadership, helping Accenture translate emerging trust technologies into secure, scalable, and production-grade architectures embedded in modern data and digital core environments. 

Key Responsibilities

Trusted Data Architecture & Strategic Leadership

• Own the end-to-end-to-end architecture and technical delivery accountability for trusted data services spanning DLT, Digital Identity, and Digital Assets

• Act as a technical authority and design decision maker across trust, security, scalability, and performance considerations

• Define and govern enterprise reference architectures for trusted data ecosystems, balancing on-chain, off-chain, and confidential compute components

• Guide clients from strategy and architecture definition through PoC, pilot, production deployment, and scale

• Translate emerging standards, protocols, and regulatory requirements into practical, industrialized architectures 

DLT & Blockchain Infrastructure Architecture

• Lead the design, deployment, and operation of enterprise g-grade DLT networks across Layer 1 and Layer 2 platforms

• Architect and implement Layer 2 frameworks, covering major approaches such as rollup-based, validity-proof-based, and hybrid models

• Define reference architectures for node infrastructure, validator setups, sequencers, RPC endpoints, and supporting services

• Ensure production grade-grade security, resilience, governance, and scalability of blockchain platforms 

Digital Identity Architecture

• Architect Digital Identity solutions leveraging DLT-based and hybrid approaches, including decentralized identifiers (DIDs), verifiable credentials (VCs), and (EUDI) wallets

• Design identity platforms that integrate with enterprise IAM, access control, and data governance frameworks

• Address privacy, consent, selective disclosure, and compliance requirements using cryptographic and confidential compute techniques

• Advise clients on trust frameworks, identity interoperability, and cross ecosystem-ecosystem identity models 

Digital Assets & Tokenization Platforms

• Lead architecture for Digital Asset platforms, including tokenization of assets, token lifecycle management, and on-chain/off-chain data integration

• Design solutions for wallets, custody, asset issuance, transfer, and settlement, aligned with enterprise security and regulatory needs

• Define scalable patterns for integration between blockchain networks, enterprise systems, and data platforms

• Support clients in building production-ready digital asset ecosystems rather than isolated pilots 

Cloud, Platform Engineering & Confidential Compute

• Design cloud-native trusted data platforms across major hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP), including network topology, security, and cost optimization

• Architect solutions for regulated, sovereign, and hybrid cloud environments

• Apply Confidential Compute and privacy enhancing-enhancing technologies to protect sensitive data in use, at rest, and in transit

• Establish Infrastructure as-asCode (IaC-Code (IaC) and DevOps standards enabling repeatable, industrialized delivery 

DevOps, Operations & Production Readiness

• Provide architectural leadership for containerized DLT environments using Docker and Kubernetes

• Oversee CI/CD strategies for protocol upgrades, configuration changes, and network evolution

• Establish enterprise grade monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident-grade monitoring, logging, alerting, and incidentresponse patterns for mission-response patterns for missionc-critical DLT platforms 

Client, Team & Practice Leadership

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders on DLT, Digital Identity, and Digital Asset strategies

• Lead and mentor multi-disciplinary delivery teams, setting architectural standards and ensuring quality at scale

• Build and evolve internal assets, accelerators, and reference architectures within Accenture’s Trusted Data and blockchain communities

• Contribute to business development, solution shaping, proposals, and thought leadership

• Drive capability building, growing Accenture’s trusted data architecture bench globally