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Role: Technology, Strategy & Advisory, Enterprise Architect Manager – Products
Location: London, Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh
Industry: Products
Mobility: Up to 100%
Career Level: Manager
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.
Your responsibilities as an Enterprise Architect Manager 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

Leading 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).

Leading 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

Leading a team of Enterprise Architects

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; working and present across different levels of architecture abstraction; and working with multi-disciplinary teams

Have interest or experience with key Technology Platforms across AI solutions (OpenAI, AWS), Cloud (Azure, AWS, Google), Supply Chain (O9, BlueYonder, Kinaxis), CRM (Dynamics, Salesforce), Data (Palantir, Snowflake), ERP (SAP S4) or others.

Have proven stakeholder management and communication skills, leveraged to influence and persuade on key architectural decisions

Keen to explore how emerging technologies can be leveraged within solutions to client problems; or how they can be used to underpin the methods used to support clients on their transformation journeys.

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

Depth of knowledge within any of the Products industry sub-sectors, with a point of view on their underlying business, technology or data architectures and any emerging technology or industry trends

Experience working as a solution architect or enterprise architect with a focus on business stakeholder management

Experience in business capability and process taxonomies, maturity assessments and alignment of gaps to enabling technology solutions

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

Previous consulting experience in technology strategy; or experience in an architecture function

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

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