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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 including capability, conceptual, functional and logical
• Leading architectural assessments focusing on how key business needs of an organisation are met through technology and producing architecture recommendations and roadmaps
• 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

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
• Lead teams developing proposals
• 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)