At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead enterprise architecture initiatives and drive transformation using cutting-edge technologies.
- Company: Join Accenture, a global leader in professional services with a culture of innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy 30 days vacation, private medical insurance, and extra leave for charity work.
- Other info: Flexible working environment with opportunities for career growth and development.
- Why this job: Shape the future of businesses by leveraging AI, Cloud, and emerging technologies.
- Qualifications: Experience in enterprise architecture and strong stakeholder management skills required.
The predicted salary is between 67500 - 82500 £ per year.
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.
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?
Our Enterprise Architecture team sits at the heart of Accenture’s Technology Strategy and Advisory Practice (TS&A). We work with senior clients to shape enterprise-wide transformation – defining technology, data, and operating models that enable growth, resilience and reinvention.
As an Enterprise Architecture Manager you will operate at the intersection of business strategy, industry insight, and modern technology. You will collaborate with executives, product leaders, engineers and architects to design target state architectures and pragmatic roadmaps across complex, global organisations.
Your responsibilities as an Enterprise Architect Manager will include:
- Enterprise Strategy and Architecture Leadership
- Assess the impact of business strategy on the enterprise architecture across organisation, processes, applications, data, infrastructure and operations
- Define and co-create enterprise architecture visions, target states and multi-year roadmaps aligned to business objectives
- Translate complex architectural concepts into clear, outcome-focused narratives for executive stakeholders
- Stay abreast of industry dynamics, current and emerging trends, to identify and formulate the need for change in the enterprise architecture
- Transformation Design and Value Realisation
- Develop actionable transformation roadmaps using Lean and Agile enterprise principles
- Build value cases and investment justifications aligned to client strategic planning cycles
- Identify value levers including cost reduction, technical debt treatment, platform consolidation and new digital capabilities
- Architecture Governance and Delivery Assurance
- Provide enterprise architecture governance throughout transformation programmes
- Lead architectural decision-making across client business and technology teams, and third-party vendors
- Conduct end-to-end vendor and platform assessments
- Capability and Team Leadership
- Lead and develop teams of Enterprise Architects across engagements
- Create and evolve reusable enterprise architecture assets, blueprints and accelerators
- Support definition and implementation of Enterprise Architecture operating models and maturity improvement roadmaps
We are looking for individuals who:
- Experience working across one or more architecture domains, including Business, Application, Data, Technology and/or Security
- Experience contributing to or leading complex, enterprise-scale transformation programmes
- Ability to operate across different levels of abstraction, from executive strategy to architectural detail
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders
- Curiosity and a point of view on leveraging AI and Data, Cloud and emerging technologies to solve business challenges.
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.
Enterprise Architecture Manager - Products employer: Accenture
Accenture is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture in London that fosters innovation and collaboration. With competitive benefits like 30 days of vacation, access to fitness classes, and private medical insurance, employees are supported in achieving a healthy work-life balance while also having ample opportunities for professional growth and development within the rapidly evolving field of AI.
