Technology Strategy Enterprise Architect Manager

Job description / Role

About Accenture

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 enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 799,000 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 and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability.

Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent 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.

Accenture Strategy & Consulting

In today's world, business leaders want to rapidly and confidently reinvent to increase resilience, mitigate risk, and grow with sustainable value. That's where Accenture Strategy & Consulting comes in. We bring together strategic visionaries, industry experts, practitioners from across every enterprise function, business intelligence professionals, change specialists, data and AI authorities, and many other specialized skills to co-create each client's unique path to reinvention.

You will be a trusted partner to business leaders, working with a diverse team of experts to deliver successful tech-enabled transformation and new kinds of value for your clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive rigorous and structured approach to identifying and solving complex technology business problems that leads to strategic insights.
• Identify and prioritize value creation opportunities at the intersection of business and technology based on assessment activities and an understanding of high-level visions, performance gaps, and needs.
• Lead independently small engagements or streams of work end-to-end across all delivery components: client satisfaction, value delivered, team management, financials, etc.
• Identify and nurture pull-through business opportunities, support business development effort with client and Accenture teams until successful sale closure.
• Collaborate with clients and within Accenture to align their business and technology priorities.
• Develop content knowledge and share through proactive involvement in technology strategy operations and communities of practice.
• Lead the creation of well-articulated thought leadership assets that present innovative insights, knowledge, guidance and recommendations on a specific market-relevant technology strategy domain.
• Interact with senior management at a client and/or Accenture to steer recommendations and obtain buy-in on matters that may require alternate approaches.

Key Skills

• Strong data-driven consulting with focus on business and technology value architecting and realization.
• Ability to act independently to determine methods and procedures on assignments.
• Management of team efforts at a client or within Accenture.
• Ability to pull through business opportunities.
• Experience and understanding of core technology strategy offerings - IT & Digital technology strategy, enterprise architecture, operating model, data & analytics, cloud.
• Experience in technology advisory and/or implementation.
• Industry experience in financial services, investment management, asset management sector, specifically within public sector or government-owned entities directly or through consulting engagements.
• Proactively acquired business knowledge beyond technical role or via business school, i.e. MBA.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8-15 years of total work experience, with at least 5 years in IT/Digital technology strategy.
• Proven and relevant past consulting experience; alternatively strong in-house IT & Digital strategy, enterprise architecture division, advanced startup, or pre-sales roles (but would have to demonstrate exceptional intrinsic consulting skills).
• Arabic speaking and fluent English.

Why join us?

• We offer a transparent, fast-paced approach to career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues.
• You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools.
• Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards.
• You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends.
• You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live.

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, communities, and each other.

We 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 work.

At 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.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.