Technology, Strategy & Advisory, Enterprise Architect Consultant in Manchester

Role: Technology, Strategy & Advisory, Enterprise Architect Consultant

Industry: Financial Services, Comms, Media & Telco, Health & Public Services

Location: London, Manchester, Edinburgh

Mobility: Up to 100%

Career Level: Consultant

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Supporting the creation of Enterprise Architecture blueprints, demonstrating the end‑to‑end 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 effectively 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.
• Supporting the design and governance of 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.
• Supporting the design and governance of enterprise AI platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• 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 experience working on mergers, acquisitions and divestments.
• Have proven stakeholder management and communication skills, leveraged to influence and persuade on key architectural decisions.
• Have experience designing Cloud / Data Platforms & AI solutions including Gen AI; and are inquisitive and keen to explore areas of emerging technologies.

Set Yourself Apart

• 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.
• Experience with Enterprise / platform / application / data architecture.
• Knowledge of architecture tools such as LeanIX, Ardoq, iServer, etc.
• Experience in major enterprise architecture engagements e.g. application optimisation/rationalisation, re‑platforming, modernization of enterprise architecture.
• Certified in TOGAF, SAFe, and/or AWS/Azure/GCP and other enterprise platforms.
• Familiarity with applying key frameworks such as APQC Process Classification Framework, Zachman Framework, ITIL and Scaled Agile Framework.

Benefits

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!

Mobility & Flexibility

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.

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