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Role: Technology, Strategy & Advisory, Enterprise Architect Manager - Banking
Location: London, Manchester, Edinburgh
Industry: Financial Services - Banking
Mobility: Up to 100%
Career Level: Manager
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 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.
We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.
“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO
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 daily? Are you a critical thinker that is keen to continue exploring the untouched capabilities of technologies such as AI, Gen Ai, Cloud, Big Data and Robotics, and how they can be architected into client’s landscapes to help them achieve their strategic goals?
Joining the team means becoming part of a community 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 for competitive 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 Manager will include:
1. Assessing the impact of the business strategy on the enterprise architecture, including organisation, applications, data, infrastructure, and operations
2. Staying abreast of 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 recommendations and translating them into actionable roadmaps for complex and large technology environments using Lean and Agile enterprise principles
5. Developing value cases to support executive decision making for investment in proposed transformation roadmaps, aligned with client’s strategic planning cycles
6. Leading the creation of Enterprise Architecture blueprints, demonstrating the e2e technology landscape including applications, integrations, and data
7. Conducting end-to-end vendor assessments across technology, vendor and or data platforms
8. Working between the business and technology client & 3rd-party stakeholders to effectivity formulate communicate and conclude key architectural decisions
9. Providing EA governance to clients throughout their transformation programme to ensure that new initiatives comply with the set guidelines, without jeopardising business objectives
10. Lead in designing and governing enterprise data platform capabilities including integration and automation
11. Leading the creation of Enterprise Architecture Operating model definition and implementation roadmaps
12. Completing Enterprise Architecture maturity assessments on behalf of clients
We are looking for individuals who:
13. Work within or across one of the architectural domains; Business, Application, Data and Technology
14. Have experience working on large complex digital reinvention and/or transformation programmes
15. Have experience in the Banking industry and familiar across the core banking platforms
16. Are inquisitive and keen to explore areas of emerging technologies (AI, Data, Quantum, Robotics, Cloud, etc.)
17. Have experience working with hyper scale technology platforms (e.g: SAP, Workday, Oracle, Salesforce, and the hyper scalers)
18. Have proven stakeholder management and communication skills, leveraged to influence and persuade on key architectural decisions
19. Can work and present across different levels of architecture abstraction
20. Can work across multi-disciplinary teams
21. Have experience designing AI solutions
Set yourself apart (we’re very interested in hearing from you if you have some or all of the below):
22. Depth of knowledge within the Banking industry processes and their underlying technology architecture, emerging technology trends, etc
23. Experience working as a solution architect or enterprise architect
24. Experience in business capability and process taxonomies, maturity assessments and alignment of gaps to enabling technology solutions
25. Appreciation/Experience in designing and governing data platform architectures (e.g. broad understanding of Informatica, Collibra, Ab Initio, Snowflake, Databricks)
26. Appreciation of and interest in attaining end-to-end data skills e.g., data quality, metadata, data-mesh, data security, privacy & compliance
27. Experience with Enterprise / platform / application (e.g. cloud / SAP) / data architecture
28. Understanding of public and private cloud architectures
29. Knowledge of leading enterprise architecture tools such as LeanIX, Avolution, Orbus, Bizzdesign etc
30. Previous consulting experience
31. Have knowledge of the Government Service Manual, Technology Code of Practice (TCoP) and UK Digital/Data Strategies
32. Experience in major enterprise architecture engagements e.g. application optimisation/rationalisation, re-platforming, modernization of enterprise data architecture
33. Certified in COBIT, TOGAF, DCAM and/or AWS/Azure/GCP solution architecture
34. Knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK
35. Familiarity with applying key frameworks such as APQC Process Classification Framework, Zachman Framework, ITIL and Scaled Agile Framework
36. Full proficiency of the English language
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.
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.
Closing Date for Applications: Ongoing
Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior should a suitable applicant be found.
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