Technology Strategy Consultant (Enterprise Architecture - CMT)

Role: Technology, Strategy & Advisory, Enterprise Architect Consultant

Location: London, Manchester, Newcastle

Mobility: Up to 100%

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 emphasize innovation, industry expertise, diverse skills, and next-generation technology to solve business challenges.

Team overview:

Do you enjoy leveraging innovation and the latest technologies to solve challenges and achieve business goals? Do you like working at the intersection of business and technology, engaging with senior clients, engineers, and architects daily? Are you a critical thinker eager to explore emerging technologies like Cloud, Big Data, AI, and Robotics, and how they can be integrated into client landscapes to meet strategic objectives?

Your responsibilities as an enterprise architect will include:

• Assessing the impact of business strategy on enterprise architecture, including organization, applications, data, infrastructure, and operations.
• Staying informed about communications and media industry dynamics and their impact on organizations to identify needed changes in enterprise architecture.
• Co-creating a client’s Enterprise Architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned with business objectives.
• Developing recommendations and translating them into actionable roadmaps for complex technology environments using Lean and Agile principles.
• Supporting the creation of Enterprise Architecture blueprints, demonstrating the end-to-end technology landscape including applications, integrations, and data.
• Conducting vendor assessments across technology, vendor, and data platforms.
• Working with business and technology stakeholders to formulate, communicate, and conclude architectural decisions effectively.
• Providing EA governance throughout transformation programs to ensure compliance with guidelines without compromising business objectives.
• Supporting the design and governance of enterprise data platform capabilities, including integration and automation.
• Assisting in defining and implementing Enterprise Architecture Operating models and roadmaps.
• Completing Enterprise Architecture maturity assessments for clients.

Candidate profile:

• Experience within or across architectural domains: Business, Application, Data, and Technology.
• Experience with complex digital transformation programs and working across different levels of architecture abstraction.
• Broad understanding of the Comms and Media landscape, including Telco solutions, BSS, OSS, and frameworks like eTOM/Frameworx, TMFORUM ODA, Open APIs.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills to influence architectural decisions.
• Experience designing Cloud/Data Platforms & AI solutions, including Gen AI, and exploring emerging technologies.

Preferred qualifications:

• Deep knowledge of industry processes and technology architecture in the Comms and Media sector.
• Experience as a solution or enterprise architect.
• Knowledge of architecture tools like LeanIX, Ardoq, iServer.
• Experience in enterprise architecture engagements such as application rationalization, modernization, or re-platforming.
• Certifications like TOGAF, SAFe, AWS/Azure/GCP are advantageous.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary, 30 days' vacation, private medical insurance, and additional leave for charitable work.
• Flexibility and mobility required for onsite client work.

Application deadline: Ongoing (role may close early if filled)

Equal Opportunity: We are committed to an inclusive workplace free from discrimination and support veteran employment. All decisions are made without regard to protected characteristics.