Technology Strategy and Architecture Manager

Technology Strategy and Architecture Manager

Location: Dublin

Career Level: 7

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About TS&A Ireland

Technology Strategy & Advisory a key part of our growing Strategy & Consulting service. Here, we develop company-wide IT and digitalisation strategies that exploit ground-breaking technologies and strategically advise our Fortune 500 CIO clients on how to reinvent their IT operating models, enterprise and data architectures, take advantage of cloud, and improve the value they are getting from their IT investments. Our practice has been consistently rated as the best team in the industry by the Financial Times based on client ratings and was key for Accenture to be named a leader by Forrester.

The Opportunity for You

As a Manager, you will be involved in:

• Assessing organisations and defining target state definitions across the various architecture layers.
• Collaborating with industry and business specialists to develop comprehensive transformation strategies and roadmaps
• Advising on the most suitable frameworks, operating models and technologies to adopt
• Conducting architecture maturity assessments and recommending next most valuable steps
• Analysing industry context, interviewing key client stakeholders, building and facilitating client workshops, and ensuring a fact-based approach to adopting technology and organisational transformation
• Leading multi-disciplinary teams to shape, sell and implement technology transformation programmes

Qualifications & Background:

We are looking for experienced technology and architecture who can develop and cultivate long-term client relationships, become key contributors within multidisciplinary cross-functional project teams, embrace diversity and inclusion, and are creative problem solvers with a passion for transforming enterprise technology organisations.

• Experience of 6+ years in the area as an enterprise or solution architect, strategy or advisory role as part of leading technology organisation
• Proven experience in defining and delivering impactful, effective, and pragmatic architecture assessments and roadmaps
• Personal and professional attributes required to convince senior leadership to take bold actions and coach them through major change
• Ability to build lasting relationships with clients and colleagues and cultivate mentoring collaborations willing to become technology advisors
• First class written and verbal communication skills
• Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
• Drive, enjoy a challenge, proven ability to adapt and remove obstacles to achieve results, determination and optimism
• Experienced storyteller with data and ability to communicate findings to a non-technical audience
• Lead teams developing proposals

Desirable:

• BA, BSc or MSc qualified, preferably in an engineering, technology or business-related field
• Experience within the Financial Services, Health and Public Sector, Resources (Energy & Utilities), Software or Products (Consumer Goods & Services, Retail) industries
• Knowledge of, and passion for, business and technology trends such as GenAI, Microservices/Containers/APIs, Blockchain, ZBx, Platform Business Models, Big Data, Internet of Things
• Experience in one or more of the following:
• mentoring teams to become more agile and adopting Agile delivery methods
• architecting operating model change, workforce transformation, or product management
• shaping enterprise architectures to meet business strategy
• modern engineering practices
• ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) and/or PPM (Project and Portfolio Management) tools
• Certifications on:
• SAFe, LeSS or other Agile frameworks
• Cloud practitioner for leading cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Architecture (e.g. TOGAF, TOG Certified Architect, DAMA Data Management)

Does this appeal to you? If so, we would love to hear from you!

Please advise if you have any particular requirements, so we can look into arranging reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process. You can contact us at [email protected].

What’s in for you:

At Accenture Ireland, in addition to a competitive base salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes pension, private health insurance, discounts through our employee discount scheme, 25 days of holidays and 2 days’ leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Flexible working arrangements can be discussed depending on the position.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and improve citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 732,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

About Accenture

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