Role: Technology Strategy Consultant (Enterprise Architecture)

Location: London, Manchester, Newcastle

Mobility: Up to 100%

Career Level:  Consultant

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.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

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.

Our research-based advice and situational analyses enable our clients to act with speed and confidence.

Your responsibilities as a Technology Strategy 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
• 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, demonstrating the e2e technology landscape including applications, integrations, and data  
• 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 the set guidelines, without jeopardising business objectives
• Support in designing and governing enterprise data platform capabilities including integration and automation
• Supporting the creation of Enterprise Architecture Operating model definition and implementation roadmaps
• Completing Enterprise Architecture maturity assessment on behalf of clients

We are looking for individuals who:

• Work within or across one of the architectural domains; Business, Application, Data and Technology
• Have experience working on complex digital transformation programmes
• Are inquisitive and keen to explore areas of emerging technologies (Cloud Native, Data, AI, Robotics, etc.)
• Have experience working with key Technology / Cloud Platforms (e.g: SAP, Workday, Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft)
• Have proven stakeholder management and communication skills, leveraged to influence and persuade on key architectural decisions
• Can work and present across different levels of architecture abstraction
• Can work across multi-disciplinary teams
• Have experience designing AI solutions

Set yourself apart (we’re very interested in hearing from you if you have some or all of the below):

• Depth of knowledge within Products and H&PS industry processes and their underlying technology architecture, emerging technology trends, etc
• Experience working as a solution architect or enterprise architect
• Experience in business capability and process taxonomies, maturity assessments and alignment of gaps to enabling technology solutions
• Appreciation/Experience in designing and governing data platform architectures (e.g. broad understanding of Informatica, Collibra, Ab Initio, Snowflake, Databricks)
• Appreciation of and interest in attaining end-to-end data skills e.g., data quality, metadata, data-mesh, data security, privacy & compliance
• Experience with Enterprise / platform / application (e.g. cloud / SAP) / data architecture
• Understanding of public and private cloud architectures
• Knowledge of architecture tools such as LeanIX, Avolution,
• Previous consulting experience
• Have knowledge of the Government Service Manual, Technology Code of Practice (TCoP) and UK Digital/Data Strategies
• Experience in major enterprise architecture engagements e.g. application optimisation/rationalisation, re-platforming, modernization of enterprise data architecture
• Certified in COBIT, TOGAF, DCAM and/or AWS/Azure/GCP solution architecture
• Knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK
• Familiarity with applying key frameworks such as APQC Process Classification Framework, Zachman Framework, ITIL and Scaled Agile Framework
• Full proficiency of the English language  

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

About Accenture

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. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With over 700,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Closing Date for Applications 30/11/2024

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 750,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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