Enterprise Architect - Manager -Banking

Accenture
London
9 months ago
Applications closed

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.

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.

Your responsibilities as an Enterprise Architect Manager will include:

  • Assessing the impact of the business strategy on the enterprise architecture, including organisation, applications, data, infrastructure, and operations.

  • Staying abreast of industry dynamics and the impact of trends on an organisation, to identify and formulate need for change in enterprise architecture.

  • Co-creating a client’s Enterprise Architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring it aligns with business objectives.

  • Developing recommendations and translating them into actionable roadmaps for complex and large technology environments using Lean and Agile enterprise principles.

  • Developing value cases to support executive decision making for investment in proposed transformation roadmaps, aligned with client’s strategic planning cycles.

  • Leading the creation of Enterprise Architecture blueprints, demonstrating the e2e technology landscape including applications, integrations, and data.

  • Conducting end-to-end vendor assessments across technology, vendor and or data platforms.

  • Working between the business and technology client & 3rd-party stakeholders to effectively formulate, communicate and conclude key architectural decisions.

  • Providing EA governance to clients throughout their transformation programme to ensure that new initiatives comply with the set guidelines, without jeopardising business objectives.

  • Lead in designing and governing enterprise data platform capabilities including integration and automation.

  • Leading the creation of Enterprise Architecture Operating model definition and implementation roadmaps.

  • Completing Enterprise Architecture maturity assessments on behalf of clients.

We are looking for individuals who:

  • Work within or across one of the architectural domains; Business, Application, Data and Technology.

  • Have experience working on large complex digital reinvention and/or transformation programmes.

  • Have experience in the Banking industry and familiar across the core banking platforms.

  • Are inquisitive and keen to explore areas of emerging technologies (AI, Data, Quantum, Robotics, Cloud, etc.).

  • Have experience working with hyper scale technology platforms (e.g: SAP, Workday, Oracle, Salesforce, and the hyper scalers).

  • Have proven stakeholder management and communication skills, leveraged to influence and persuade on key architectural decisions.

  • Can work and present across different levels of architecture abstraction.

  • Can work across multi-disciplinary teams.

  • Have experience designing AI solutions.

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.

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