Technology Strategy Consultant
Are you passionate about technology and its transformative impact on businesses? Do you thrive on solving complex challenges and working collaboratively in teams? Are you proactive, results-driven, and eager to make a difference for clients? If so, Technology Strategy & Advisory could be the perfect fit for you! Joining our team means becoming part of a dynamic group of consultants dedicated to providing our clients with cutting-edge insights on business and technology strategy.
Our values include challenging our clients’ vision and strategy, 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.
As a Technology Strategy Consultant at Accenture, you will be at the forefront of developing and elaborating on our clients’ strategies. Your role will involve developing business and IT strategies into well-defined plans and leading the integration of people, processes, and technology. Leveraging the power of Accenture across consulting, technology, and operations, you will drive transformative initiatives.
In this dynamic and flexible environment, you will navigate operating model changes, IT modernization and optimization (including cloud computing, AI, and machine learning), and data-driven business reinvention. You will utilize your expertise to build, advise, and execute on the promise of technology and human ingenuity.
As a continuous learner, you will stay abreast of best practices, industry landscapes, and emerging technologies, applying this knowledge to develop innovative business solutions. Your ability to adapt to the latest trends and technologies will be crucial in delivering impactful results for our clients.
As a Technology Strategy Consultant, you will be expected to:
· Understand & support development/elaboration of a client’s business and IT strategy with a logical focus on the business impact and technology enablement.
· Quickly understand our client environment in terms of Technology & (IT) operating model and what’s the potential impacted areas to realize the client strategic ambitions.
· Translate client strategies into (transformation) plans that can vary from short term improvements to major business-driven, technology-enabled multi-year transformation plans across the entire organization. The focus can go from future-proof architectures using modern technologies like cloud, data & AI over next-gen connectivity, platform architectures to IT portfolio and cost excellence initiatives (and more).
· Create organizational and technology blueprints based on rigorous analysis and that scan as-is state and to make recommendations based on technology & industry knowledge for future state.
· Build an opinion and advise our clients on their plans leveraging cloud partners and platforms to drive innovation, flexibility and agility across the client organization.
· Participate in C-level communications by developing consistent and compelling storylines.
· Bring strategy to execution by guiding our clients through the transformation journey to successfully implement their strategies.
Who we are - Accenture Strategy & Consulting
In today’s world, business leaders want to reinvent rapidly and confidently to increase resilience, mitigate risk, and grow with sustainable value. That is 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, collaborating with a diverse team of experts to deliver successful tech-enabled transformation and new kinds of value for your clients. Join our global network of people using the latest assets, platforms, and partnerships to help bring ideas to life.
Strategy & Consulting is one of five services that make up one Accenture – the others are Operations, Technology, Song, and Industry X.
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Your background
· A Master's degree
· At least 3-4 years of experience in relevant Technology Strategy and Enterprise Architecture domains.
· Experience in consulting or customer-facing project-based work with specific project experience in at least 2 of the following domains: Tech-Driven Growth Strategy, Digital Strategy, Tech Value/Debt & Cost Takeout, Enterprise Architecture & Digital Core (incl. platform/application assessments & cloud strategy), Technology Operating Model (incl. IT SIAM).
· Knowledge of IT Strategy, IT Governance and Enterprise Architecture frameworks (relevant certifications are a plus).
· Flexible and able to travel when required, within your work-life balance limits.
· Professional proficiency in French, Dutch and English.
· Previous experience in the Products & Resources industry is a plus.
· Excellent C-Level communication skills, written and oral.
· Strong networking skills, building and growing relationships with senior client stakeholders and addressing their needs pro-actively.
· Ability to build, manage and foster a project team.
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