Technology Strategy Manager (Enterprise Architecture)
Location: London, Manchester, Newcastle
Mobility: Up to 100%
Career Level: Manager
Industry Focus: Products
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.
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As a team:
Do you enjoy using innovation, and the latest technologies to solve challenges and realise business goals? Do you enjoy working at the intersection of business and technology, where you’re engaging with senior clients, engineers and architects on a daily basis?Are you a critical thinker that is keen to continue exploring the untouched capabilities of technologies such as Cloud, Big Data, AI and Robotics, and how they can be architected into client’s landscapes to help them achieve their strategic goals?
Joining the team means becoming part of a community of Enterprise Architects that serve Accenture’s clients with the best and brightest insights regarding business and technology architecture. Our mission is to architect and drive industry and enterprise re-invention, powered by Technology and Data.Our values include challenging our clients’ norms, building trusted relationships, and embracing diversity as a source of creativity and inspiration. We collaborate closely with experts globally to bring the best to our clients every day and stay relevant to their changing needs.
Our teams are changing businesses every day using deep industry insights, technology knowledge and innovative ideas. Positioned at the intersection of business, technology and industry, we devise creative new strategies and target architectures, based on trends, insights and data.With an eye for competitive advantage, digital disruption, operating models, and the future workforce, we take on the challenge of designing and implementing transformative business solutions, using the technology to drive business advantage and create 360 value for our clients.
Your responsibilities as an enterprise architect consultant will include:
- Assessing the impact of the business strategy on the enterprise architecture, including organisation, applications, data, infrastructure, and operations
- Staying abreast of industry dynamics and the impact of trends on an organisation, to identify and formulate need for change in enterprise architecture
- Co-creating a client’s Enterprise Architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring it aligns with business objectives
- Fostering the relationship between the clients business and technology teams, driving alignment and coherence between business and technical requirements
- Leveraging the Accenture platform to drive technical, operational and industrial coherence into any solutions or recommendations
- Developing recommendations and translating them into actionable roadmaps for complex and large technology environments using Lean and Agile enterprise principles
- Developing value cases to support executive decision making for investment in proposed transformation roadmaps, aligned with client’s strategic planning cycles
- Supporting the creation of Enterprise Architecture blueprints to accelerate future EA engagements
- Conducting end-to-end vendor assessments across technology, vendor and/or data platforms
- Working between the business and technology client & 3rd-party stakeholders to effectivity formulate, communicate and conclude key architectural decisions
- Providing EA governance to clients throughout their transformation programme to ensure that new initiatives comply with architectural principles whilst meeting the needs of the business and any adjacent value levers (e.g. technical debt reduction, cost saving, adjacent capability opportunities).
- Supporting the creation of Enterprise Architecture Operating Model definition and implementation roadmaps
- Completing Enterprise Architecture maturity assessment on behalf of clients in a structured and coherent way