Role & Location
Enterprise Architect Manager – Products
London, Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh
Industry: Products
Mobility: Up to 100%
Career Level: Manager
Overview
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.
Responsibilities
Enterprise Strategy and Architecture Leadership
* Assess the impact of business strategy on the enterprise architecture across organization, 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
Qualifications
* 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
* Have interest or experience with key technology platforms across AI solutions (OpenAI, AWS, Palantir, Google, Microsoft), Cloud (Azure, AWS, Google), Supply Chain (O9, BlueYonder, Kinaxis), CRM (Dynamics, Salesforce), Data (Databricks, Snowflake), ERP (SAP S4) or others
Desired Profile
* Deep knowledge of one or more Products industry or sub-sector with a clear architectural point of view
* Experience shaping enterprise-wide business capability models and maturity assessments
* Strong understanding of data architectures, governance, security and privacy
* Experience with enterprise architecture tooling such as LeanIX
* Prior consulting experience in Technology Strategy or Enterprise Architecture; or experience in an architecture function
* Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, COBIT, DCAM, or cloud solution architecture
* Experience with Enterprise / platform / application (e.g. cloud / SAP) / data architecture
* 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.
Additional Requirements
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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