Overview
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Role: Technology, Strategy & Advisory, Enterprise Architect Manager - FS
Location: London, Manchester, Edinburgh
Industry: Financial Services – Insurance
Mobility: Up to 100%
Career Level: Manager/Senior Manager
About Accenture
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 combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With over 700,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com
Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
Role details
Location: London, Manchester, Edinburgh
Mobility: Up to 100%
Industry: Financial Services – Insurance
Seniority level: Manager/Senior Manager
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
* Developing value cases to support executive decision making for investment in proposed transformation roadmaps, aligned with client’s strategic planning cycles
* Leading 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
* Lead in designing and governing enterprise data platform capabilities including integration and automation
* Leading the creation of Enterprise Architecture Operating model definition and implementation roadmaps
* Completing Enterprise Architecture maturity assessment on behalf of clients
* Leading a team of Enterprise Architects
We are looking for individuals who
* 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 broad understanding across the insurance technology landscape e.g. understanding insurance specific functional applications, leading insurance industry solutions, platform options & considerations
* Have specific experience with key Technology Platforms in Insurance sectors in London Markets, General Insurance and Life & Pensions e.g. Guidewire, Duck Creek, Salesforce, EIS, Sapiens, DXC
* Have proven stakeholder management and communication skills, leveraged to influence and persuade on key architectural decisions
* Have experience designing Cloud / Data Platforms & AI solutions and insurance use cases, including Gen AI; and are inquisitive and keen to explore areas of emerging technologies
Set yourself apart
* Depth of knowledge within insurance industry processes and their underlying technology architecture, emerging technology trends, etc
* Demonstration of in-depth technology insight in particular insurance functional domain e.g. Underwriting Workbench, Claims Workbench, General Insurance Pricing & Underwriting, Life Insurance processing
* 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
* Appreciation/Experience in designing and governing data platform architectures (e.g. broad understanding of Informatica, Collibra, Ab Initio, Snowflake, Databricks)
* Appreciation of and interest in attaining end-to-end data skills e.g., data quality, metadata, data-mesh, data security, privacy & compliance
* Experience with Enterprise / platform / application (e.g. cloud / SAP) / data architecture
* Understanding of public and private cloud architectures
* Knowledge of architecture tools such as LeanIX, Avolution
* Previous consulting experience in insurance; or experience in an insurance architecture function
* Have knowledge of the Government Service Manual, Technology Code of Practice (TCoP) and UK Digital/Data Strategies
* Experience in major enterprise architecture engagements e.g. application optimisation/rationalisation, re-platforming, modernization of enterprise data architecture
* Certified in COBIT, TOGAF, DCAM and/or AWS/Azure/GCP solution architecture
* Knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK
* 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 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.
Closing Date for Applications
Ongoing
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