Enterprise Architecture Senior Manager - Job Description

Our industry experts are equipped with the insights and capabilities to transform the world’s leading companies. We are proud to help shape the way our client’s structure and manage their business. At Accenture Consulting we focus on delivering value-orientated solutions for our clients.

As the primary owners of client relationships, we take the best of Accenture’s five businesses (Strategy, Digital, Consulting, Operations, and Technology) to our clients to provide unmatched industry knowledge, client experiences, strategic alliances, proprietary assets, and subject matter experts to best serve clients and accelerate growth with end to end solutions.

An Enterprise Architecture (EA) Senior Manager owns the EA agenda within the Technology Strategy and Advisory practice. The EA Senior Manager has the responsibility of driving opportunities for select clients, carry discussions regarding all facets of EA business internally within Accenture and with perspective clients. You should have experience in selling and/or delivering EA programs. You will be providing the highest level of consultative support on Enterprise Architecture domains namely, Business, data, application, and technology architectures and will include liaising with cloud practitioners to facilitate consultative services for cloud Enterprise Architectures.

The EA Senior Manager is expected to liaise with other senior leadership throughout the Accenture practice to establish collateral/material that can be leveraged in discussions and strategic initiatives for perspective C-Suite clients and progress Accenture South Africans Enterprise Architecture offerings.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define Enterprise Architecture roadmaps, Industry functional solutions and advise clients on Architecture related advancements within the industry.

• Recommend the target dispositions for the client’s landscape.

• Advise on how architecture and the establishment of Enterprise Architecture capabilities can help bridge the gap between IT and Business and provide the oversight business needs to make tactical decisions regarding their IT landscapes.

• Lead engagements or stream of work end-to-end across all delivery components: client satisfaction, value delivered, teams management, financials, etc.

• Identify and nurture pull-through business opportunities, support business development efforts with client and Accenture teams until successful sale closure.

• Collaborate with clients, ecosystem partners, and within Accenture to align their business and technology priorities.

• Lead creation of thought leadership and assets that present action-oriented insights, knowledge, guidance, and recommendations related Enterprise Architecture.

• Interaction with senior management at a client and/or Accenture to steer recommendations and obtain buy-in on matters that may require an alternate approach.

• Drive creation of Enterprise Architecture Communities of Practice and establish architecture forums with C-suite members of client organisations.

Key Skills:

• Strong data-driven consulting with a 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 generate and pull-through business opportunities.

• Experience in designing and delivering Enterprise Architecture operating model and governance improvements and larger transformations

• Commercial acumen in terms of aligning and articulating the cost of EA and IT work with its business and IT value, and maintaining the cost vs value balance throughout delivery

• Experience and understanding of core Enterprise Architecture subject matter.

• Experience in Enterprise Architecture advisory and/or implementation.

• Ability to operate cross-industry within the remit of Enterprise Architecture.

• Pro-actively acquired business knowledge beyond a technical role

• Ability to craft and deliver compelling narratives to communicate complex ideas and drive engagement

• Ability to work with, nurture and coach junior Enterprise Architects in the team

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey complex concepts to the C-Suite and non-technical stakeholders

Job Qualifications

• Minimum 10 – 12 years of work experience; at least 8 years plus in Enterprise Architecture advisory or establishment services.

• Proven and relevant past consulting experience; alternatively global technology services firm or seasoned industry position focused on Enterprise Architecture (and demonstration of intrinsic consulting skills).

• Qualifications: bachelor’s degree or Honours or Masters within Information Technology or Computer Science or Informatics, and/or 10 years + experience within the related subject matter areas.

• Enterprise Architecture certifications: TOGAF.