Technology Strategy Consultant (Enterprise Architecture - CMT)Role: Technology, Strategy & Advisory, Enterprise Architect Consultant
Location: London, Manchester, Newcastle
Mobility : Up to 100%
Career Level: Consultant
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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 bing part of amunity 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 forpetitive 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.
Our research-based advice and situational analyses enable our clients to act with speed and confidence.
Your responsibilities as an enterprise architect will include:
1. Assessing the impact of the business strategy on the enterprise architecture, including organisation, applications, data, infrastructure, and operations
2. Staying abreast ofms and Media industry dynamics and the impact of trends on an organisation, to identify and formulate need for change in enterprise architecture
3. Co-creating a client's Enterprise Architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring it aligns with business objectives
4. Developing rmendations and translating them into actionable roadmaps forplex and large technology environments using Lean and Agile enterprise principles
5. Supporting the creation of Enterprise Architecture blueprints, demonstrating the e2e technology landscape including applications, integrations, and data
6. Conducting end-to-end vendor assessments across technology, vendor and or data platforms
7. Working between the business and technology client & 3rd-party stakeholders to effectivity formulatemunicate and conclude key architectural decisions
8. Providing EAernance to clients throughout their transformation programme to ensure that new initiativesply with the set guidelines, without jeopardising business objectives
9. Support in designing anderning enterprise data platform capabilities including integration and automation
10. Supporting the creation of Enterprise Architecture Operating model definition and implementation roadmaps
We are looking for individuals who:
11. Work within or across one of the architectural domains; Business, Application, Data and Technology
12. Have experience working onplex digital transformation programmes; working and present across different levels of architecture abstraction; and working with multi-disciplinary teams
13. Have broad understanding across thems and Media industry landscape leading Telco industry solutions, platform options & considerations across BSS and OSS
14. Have deep understanding of Telco frameworks including eTOM / Frameworx, TMFORUM ODA, Open APIs.
15. Have proven stakeholder management andmunication skills, leveraged to influence and persuade on key architectural decisions
16. 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 (we're very interested in hearing from you if you have some or all of the below):
17. Depth of knowledge withinms and Media industry processes and their underlying technology architecture, emerging technology trends, etc
18. Demonstration of in-depth technology insight in particular Telco functional domain Sales, CRM, Order Management, Product management, Billing and OSS
19. Experience working as a solution architect or enterprise architect
20. Experience in business capability and process taxonomies, maturity assessments and alignment of gaps to enabling technology solutions
21. Experience with Enterprise / platform / application / data architecture
22. Knowledge of architecture tools such as LeanIX, Ardoq, iServer, etc.
23. Previous experience inms and Media
24. Experience in major enterprise architecture engagements application optimisation/rationalisation, re-platforming, modernization of enterprise architecture
25. Certified in TOGAF, SAFe, and/or AWS/Azure/GCP and other enterprise platforms
26. 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 apetitive 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.
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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