Technology Strategy & Roadmap Architect

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 699,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners, and communities.

We Are:

We are Technology Strategy. Our vision is to become the world’s leading advisors in harnessing technology and innovation as a force to reinvent and improve every business. Our mission is to help client business executives disrupt their industry and utilize technology to capture market share.

Our Technology Strategy team leverages deep business and technology domain expertise to empower clients to be more competitive by leading initiatives that unlock value and drive growth.  In today’s rapidly changing environment, the C-suite must position technology as a differentiator to stay agile in a world dominated by change. New business architectures break away from old ways of doing things, driving agility to compete and grow in the new. Accenture’s Technology Strategy team enables leaders to act quickly and confidently as they pivot to the future. We help clients determine clear, actionable paths to competitive agility by bringing them new thinking on business and technology.

You Are:

A Technology Strategy guru with extensive experience in creating technology-led business strategies and top-flight leadership and management skills. You are expected to answer questions such as ‘How will Gen AI or AI disrupt my business model?’, ‘How can businesses use data and analytics to create highly-personalised outreach?

Your expertise? Advising clients on data-driven technology strategies to transform their business operations or business model so they can exceed their strategic, financial, and operational goals. You are a curious leader who can connect with and advise senior clients through storytelling and strong domain knowledge. As a senior manager, you will be a coach to develop our up-and-coming leaders in their careers, and an orchestrator of our diverse multi-disciplinary workforces to solve our client’s challenges. You will contribute to Accenture’s Tech Strategy intellectual capital, defining industry leading thinking, contributing to the Practice Area development and helping build Accenture’s brand as a digital leader.

The Work:                

• Assess clients’ business options in the context of global, industry, economic, technology, and social trends.

• Day to day delivery leader on short high impact strategies (why, how, value, and approach) for our client’s senior teams (SVP to C-suite); leading small teams of motivated generalists and deep specialists

• Manage and oversee the definition of the practices, processes, toolsets, and operations for one or more transformation domains, owning delivery of engagements end-to-end

• Executive oversight and client relationship management of diverse delivery teams working with mid-level clients

• Identify, orchestrate, and drive new sales opportunities with Managing Director Support (incremental and new)

• Ensure clients are positioned for long-term success with practical road maps for carrying out Digital, IT or Cloud strategy, managing change, monitoring and gauging processes, and taking remedial steps.

• Earn the trust of senior leaders at client organizations and partner with them to create strategic solutions at the intersection of business, technology, and operations.

• Build relationships with clients to raise Accenture’s profile as a long-term trusted advisor and partner

• Fortify Accenture’s Technology Strategy practice and role as a thought leader by creating content and taking part in professional forums, both internal and external.

• Lead projects that deliver world-class business technology strategy solutions.

• Mentor junior members of the strategy team and position them for future growth.

• Provide upfront strategic thinking and framework and develop / implement new strategic frameworks that are centered on the needs of both business and technology

As a Senior Manager you will:

• Be able to manage complex or multiple projects or major workstream, driving overall team deliverables while supervising and mentoring team members

• Lead the implementation of technology strategies and roadmaps as well as work with multiple teams and contribute on key decisions

• Expected to be a SME with deep knowledge and experience

• Build strong relationships with senior executive clients (C-level and above) that extend beyond individual projects, including to develop C-suite relationships; drive a spirit of collaboration and teaming with client while serving as a true trusted advisor

• Drive thought leadership, asset development, and intellectual capital efforts with targeted input from more senior colleagues

• Identify and advance ideas for new business opportunities

• Lead to drive business development by provide effective guidance in developing proposals and SOWs with the support of a leadership

• Provide solutions to problems that apply across multiple teams across different knowledge domains such as Operating model, Cloud strategy, Data & Analytics, and Value architecture & Realization.

• Proactively seek out and use existing frameworks while developing frameworks, all while articulating business impacts and applying a perspective that drives business and technology value

• Provide thought leadership on technology trends and best practices in various dimensions