At a Glance
- Tasks: Define and deliver enterprise-level IT strategies for high-profile government digital services.
- Company: Join Accenture, a global leader in professional services and digital transformation.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, up to 30 days vacation, private medical insurance, and extra leave for charity work.
- Other info: Flexible work environment with opportunities for career growth and development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on government services while working with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: Minimum 2 years in Enterprise Architecture, familiarity with cloud technologies, and strong stakeholder management skills.
The predicted salary is between 69935 - 85477 £ per year.
South/Cambridge - must be willing to travel to client sites throughout the UK on an ad hoc basis.
Level: Manager
Salary: Competitive salary and package (Dependent on Experience)
Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and SC+ security clearance which typically requires 10 years continuous UK address history usually including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK and declaration of being a British passport holder with no dual nationalism at the point of application.
Role Overview
As an Enterprise Architect in our team, you will leverage your solution architecture background to define and deliver enterprise-level IT strategies and architectures for high-profile, public-facing government digital services.
Key Responsibilities
- Define the architecture for large-scale, complex digital services, ensuring alignment with organisational and business objectives.
- Develop IT strategy, enterprise architecture, and roadmaps for major programmes of work.
- Provide specialist technology advice and risk/threat-based mitigation guidance on system designs.
- Prepare training materials and deliver training sessions to upskill colleagues.
- Support the CTO Advisory team in the acquisition of new talent in line with demand in a timely manner.
- Engender Accenture company values, contributing to the development of STS as a great place to work.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Minimum 2 years’ experience practicing Enterprise Architecture, ideally in a client-facing consulting role.
- Familiarity with major cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud) and integration techniques.
- Experience managing technical risks and providing quality assurance for deliverables.
- Strong understanding of IT system design, build, test, deployment, and management.
- Experience mentoring, training, or supporting the development of colleagues.
- Experience presenting designs and ability to participate as a key decision maker in architecture governance forums.
Desirable Attributes
- Experience with both traditional and agile delivery methods; understanding of the tension between agile delivery and EA, and approaches to resolving it.
- Ability to define and communicate IT strategy, aligning EA with business and IT objectives.
- Stakeholder management skills, including conflict resolution in multi-supplier environments.
- Ability to make sense of complexity and apply all architectural domains to large, multi-faceted government IT and data estates.
- How to contribute to the development of our architecture practice and digital transformation expertise.
Whilst having experience in a consultancy is beneficial, demonstrable experience in working with clients/external partners in other settings will always be considered.
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 up to 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 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 approximately 791,000 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. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, 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.
All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.
Summary
Location: London
Type: Full time
IT Enterprise Architect (m/w/d) in London 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.
