Technology Operating Model Manager - Financial ServicesRole: Technology, Strategy & Advisory, Technology Operating Model Manager
Location: London, Manchester, Newcastle
Mobility: Up to 100%
Career Level: Manager
Industry Group experience required: Financial Services
Accenture is a leading global professional servicespany, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.
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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 their value can be maximised in a client's landscape.
Joining the team means bing part of amunity that serve Accenture's clients with the best and brightest insights regarding technology operating model strategy, design and transformation. 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 operating models, 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.
Your responsibilities as a technology operating model consultant will include:
1. Partner with technology and business leaders to architect "how" technology functions unlock business value and agility through the right operating model blueprint
2. Co-creating a client's Technology Operating Model vision, strategy and design - from initial product and platform structures to organisation,ernance and process designs
3. Shaping value cases to articulate the case for change
4. Shaping implementation approaches and roadmaps, ensuring alignment to wider business objectives
5. Staying abreast of industry dynamics and the impact of trends on an organisation, to identify and formulate the need for new capabilities and operating model changes
6. Advising on, designing and implementing modern engineering capabilities including Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Automation, Data & AI and Cloud
7. Conducting Agile and modern engineering maturity assessments to identify opportunities to improve quality, consistency and speed to market
8. Developing rmendations and translating them into actionable roadmaps forplex and large technology transformations using Lean and Agile enterprise principles
9. Supporting the creation of methods and processes by area / technology function, to embed new ways of working
10. Providing insights to clients onmon pitfalls during operating model transformation and devising appropriate risk mitigation strategies
11. Leading and coaching client teams in adopting new operating models and engineering practices
12. Leading and coaching junior team members
We are looking for individuals with the following skills and experience:
13. Technology Experience: Have experience designing modern technology operating models or are an engineering professional with a background in Data & AI, DevOps or Platform Engineering that is seeking to pivot their career towards advisory work Understand modern IT, Data, AI and Cloud operating modelponents and methodologies Understand functional architecture and how this informs modern IT operating model structure and design Are curious and passionate about exploring emerging technologies (Cloud Native, Data, AI, Robotics, etc.)
14. Strategic Thinking: Can synthesise business strategies and challenges to inform target technology operating model design Can simplify and explainplex business technology challenges Experience adapting operating model designs to meet varying client industry needs
15. Stakeholder Management: Ability to inspire teams and build consensus in high-pressure situations Arefortable co-creating and partnering with technology and business leaders, working through ambiguity to architect the right oue Have proven stakeholder management andmunication skills, leveraged to influence and persuade client stakeholders
16. Delivery and Execution: Have experience working onplex digital transformation programmes
17. Can work across multi-disciplinary teams
18. Industry Experience: Have experience in Financial Services.
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.
About Accenture
We work with one shared purpose: to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity. Every day, more than 775,000 of us help our stakeholders continuously reinvent. Together, we drive positive change and deliver value to our clients, partners, shareholders,munities, and each believe that delivering value requires innovation, and innovation thrives in an inclusive and diverse environment. We actively foster a workplace free from bias, where everyone feels a sense of belonging and is respected and empowered to do their best Accenture, we see well-being holistically, supporting our people's physical, mental, and financial health. We also provide opportunities to keep skills relevant through certifications, learning, and diverse work experiences. We're proud to be consistently recognized as one of the World's Best Workplaces™.Join Accenture to work at the heart of change.
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