Enterprise Architecture Manager - Products

Role: Technology, Strategy & Advisory, Enterprise Architect Manager - Products

Location: London, Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh

Industry: Products

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 of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

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As a team:

Do you enjoy using innovation, and the latest technologies to solve challenges and realise business goals? Do you enjoy working at the intersection of business and technology, where you’re engaging with senior clients, engineers and architects on a daily basis? Are you a critical thinker that is keen to continue exploring the untouched capabilities of technologies such as Cloud, Big Data, AI and Robotics, and how they can be architected into client’s landscapes to help them achieve their strategic goals?

Our Enterprise Architecture team sits at the heart of Accenture’s Technology Strategy and Advisory Practice (TS&A). We work with senior clients to shape enterprise-wide transformation – defining technology, data, and operating models that enable growth, resilience and reinvention.

As an Enterprise Architecture Manager you will operate at the intersection of business strategy, industry insight, and modern technology. You will collaborate with executives, product leaders, engineers and architects to design target state architectures and pragmatic roadmaps across complex, global organisations.

Our mission is to help clients architect their enterprises for the future – leveraging cloud, AI & Data, and emerging technologies to create measurable business value, not just technical change.

Our values include challenging our clients’ norms, building trusted relationships, and embracing diversity as a source of creativity and inspiration. We collaborate closely with experts from across the world to bring the best to our clients every day and stay relevant to their changing needs.

Your responsibilities as an Enterprise Architect Manager will include:

Enterprise Strategy and Architecture Leadership

• Assess the impact of business strategy on the enterprise architecture across organisation, processes, applications, data, infrastructure and operations
• Define and co-create enterprise architecture visions, target states and multi-year roadmaps aligned to business objectives
• Translate complex architectural concepts into clear, outcome-focused narratives for executive stakeholders
• Stay abreast of industry dynamics, current and emerging trends, to identify and formulate the need for change in the enterprise architecture

Transformation Design and Value Realisation

• Develop actionable transformation roadmaps using Lean and Agile enterprise principles
• Build value cases and investment justifications aligned to client strategic planning cycles
• Identify value levers including cost reduction, technical debt treatment, platform consolidation and new digital capabilities

Architecture Governance and Delivery Assurance

• Provide enterprise architecture governance throughout transformation programmes
• Lead architectural decision-making across client business and technology teams, and third-party vendors
• Conduct end-to-end vendor and platform assessments

Capability and Team Leadership

• Lead and develop teams of Enterprise Architects across engagements
• Create and evolve reusable enterprise architecture assets, blueprints and accelerators
• Support definition and implementation of Enterprise Architecture operating models and maturity improvement roadmaps

We are looking for individuals who:

• Experience working across one or more architecture domains, including Business, Application, Data, Technology and/or Security
• Experience contributing to or leading complex, enterprise-scale transformation programmes
• Ability to operate across different levels of abstraction, from executive strategy to architectural detail
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leaders
• Curiosity and a point of view on leveraging AI and Data, Cloud and emerging technologies to solve business challenges. 
• Have interest or experience with key Technology Platforms across AI solutions (OpenAI, AWS, Palantir, Google, Microsoft), Cloud (Azure, AWS, Google), Supply Chain (O9, BlueYonder, Kinaxis), CRM (Dynamics, Salesforce), Data (Databricks, Snowflake), ERP (SAP S4) or others.

Set yourself apart (we’re very interested in hearing from you if you have some or all of the below):

• Deep knowledge of one or more Products industry or sub-sector with a clear architectural point of view
• Experience shaping enterprise-wide business capability models and maturity assessments
• Strong understanding of data architectures, governance, security and privacy
• Experience with enterprise architecture tooling such as LeanIX
• Prior consulting experience in Technology Strategy or Enterprise Architecture; or experience in an architecture function
• Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, COBIT, DCAM, or cloud solution architecture.
• Experience with Enterprise / platform / application (e.g. cloud / SAP) / data architecture
• Familiarity with applying key frameworks such as APQC Process Classification Framework, Zachman Framework, ITIL and Scaled Agile Framework

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.

About Accenture

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 of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With over 700,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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