GN - Industry – Utility Water Architect

Job Title - GN - Industry – Utility Water Architect

Management Level: 7-Manager

Location: Gurugram, DDC1A

Must-have skills: Retail Digital Strategy

Good to have skills: Ability to leverage design thinking, business process optimization, and stakeholder management skills.

Job Summary:

This role involves driving strategic initiatives, managing business transformations, and leveraging industry expertise to create value-driven solutions.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Provide strategic advisory services, conduct market research, and develop data-driven recommendations to enhance business performance.

The Practice – A Brief Sketch

As a part of the Utilities practice within Accenture’s Capability Network, you will design, build and implement strategies that can help enhance business performance. You will develop specialized expertise—strategic, industry, functional, technical—in a diverse project environment that offers multiple opportunities for career growth.

The opportunities to make a difference within exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing business landscape.

Together, let’s unlock new value in a disruptive world, with the following initiatives:

• Analyze and resolve complex challenges in the Water industry, involving thorough evaluation and innovative problem-solving to deliver effective, sustainable solutions
• Lead the design and architecture of integrated water solutions across the full water value chain, including water supply, treatment, distribution, and wastewater management.
• Ensure that architectural solutions meet functional requirements, adhere to relevant standards, and contribute to the overall aesthetic and environmental goals of Water Utilities.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations and IT teams to understand business requirements and constraints and translate them into functional and technical architectures
• Engage with regulatory authorities, community stakeholders, and other relevant entities to ensure alignment with external standards and expectations
• Stay informed about local and national building codes, regulations, and environmental standards relevant to water infrastructure
• Ensure that architectural designs comply with all Water regulatory requirements and contribute to sustainable and environmentally responsible outcomes.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams to integrate architectural designs seamlessly into broader project plans.
• Explore innovative architectural solutions that contribute to the sustainability and resilience of water infrastructure.
• Integrate environmentally friendly and energy-efficient design principles into architectural solutions.
• Conduct architecture assessments, identify gaps, and propose solutions to optimize and improve system performance and reliability.
• Lead the development and implementation of green field and brown field technical solutions, ensuring adherence to best practices and standards.
• Conduct code reviews, troubleshoot, and provide guidance to developers to ensure high-quality code.
• Collaborate with project managers and business analysts to estimate project effort and define project timelines.

Professional & Technical Skills:

- Relevant experience in the required domain. 

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. 

- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

• Proven track record of working on large-scale water projects
• Experience with water solution related risk analysis and developing mitigation strategies
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and industry standards related to water management.

• Strong problem-solving, decision-making capabilities and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to lead and educate deal teams, demonstrating deep content expertise and articulating the long-term vision for water management projects.
• Experience in articulating business value and developing the business case of water management solutions.

• Education Background: Bachelor’s degree, MBA Degree from Tier-1 College (Preferable)
• Exposure to Water Utilities clientele is a must

Bring your best skills forward to excel in the role:

• Strong desire to work in technology-driven business transformation
• The ability to develop technology solutions and value adding propositions and take these to market.
• Comfort conveying both high-level and detailed information, adjusting the way ideas are presented to better address varying social styles and audiences.
• Leading proof of concept and/or pilot implementations and defining the plan to scale implementations across multiple technology domains
• Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills - ability to convey technology and business value propositions to senior stakeholders.
• Team oriented and collaborative working style, both with clients and those within the organization.
• Capacity to develop high impact thought leadership that articulates a forward-thinking view of the market.
• Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships
• Demonstrated ability to develop younger talent and build a high performing team.
• Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements

Additional Information:

- Opportunity to work on innovative projects. 

- Career growth and leadership exposure.

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