Enterprise Architect Manager - Health & Public Service (SC)

Job Description

Role: Technology, Strategy & Advisory, Enterprise Architect Manager - Health & Public Service (SC)

Location: London, Manchester, Edinburgh

Industry : Health & Public Service

Mobility : Up to 100%

Career Level: Manager

Please Note: Any offer and commencement of employment is subject to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks, confirmation that you already hold valid Security Check (SC) clearance, and you being able to give a declaration that you are a British passport holder with no dual nationalism at the point of application. Note: These conditions align with the client’s and UK Government’s security policies.

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 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 daily? Are you a critical thinker that is keen to continue exploring the untouched capabilities of technologies such as AI, Cloud, Big Data and Robotics, and how they can be architected into client’s landscapes to help them achieve their strategic goals?

Joining the team means becoming part of a community of Enterprise Architects that serve Accenture’s clients with the best and brightest insights regarding business and technology architecture. Our mission is to architect and drive industry and enterprise re-invention, powered by Technology and Data. 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 globally to bring the best to our clients every day and stay relevant to their changing needs.

Our teams are changing businesses every day using deep industry insights, technology knowledge and innovative ideas. Positioned at the intersection of business, technology and industry, we devise creative new strategies and target architectures, based on trends, insights and data. With an eye for competitive advantage, digital disruption, operating models, and the future workforce, we take on the challenge of designing and implementing transformative business solutions, using the technology to drive business advantage and create 360 value for our clients.

Our research-based advice and situational analyses enable our clients to act with speed and confidence.

Your responsibilities as an Enterprise Architect Manager will include:

• Assessing the impact of the business strategy on the enterprise architecture, including organisation, applications, data, infrastructure, and operations
• Staying abreast of industry dynamics and the impact of trends on an organisation, to identify and formulate the need for change in enterprise architecture
• Co-creating a client’s Enterprise Architecture vision, strategy, and roadmap, ensuring it aligns with business objectives
• Developing recommendations and translating them into actionable roadmaps for complex and large technology environments using Lean and Agile enterprise principles
• Developing value cases to support executive decision making for investment in proposed transformation roadmaps, aligned with client’s strategic planning cycles
• Leading the creation of Enterprise Architecture blueprints, demonstrating the e2e technology landscape including applications, integrations, and data
• Conducting end-to-end vendor assessments across technology, vendor and or data platforms
• Working between the business and technology client & 3rd party stakeholders to effectivity formulate, communicate and conclude key architectural decisions
• Providing EA governance to clients throughout their transformation programmes to ensure that new initiatives comply with the set guidelines, without jeopardising business objectives
• Lead in designing and governing enterprise data platform capabilities including integration and automation
• Leading the creation of Enterprise Architecture Operating model definition and implementation roadmaps
• Completing Enterprise Architecture maturity assessments

Qualification

We are looking for individuals who:

• Have experience of working within secure UK Government e.g. Defence, Public Safety and/or National Security
• Work within or across one of the architectural domains; Business, Application, Data and Technology
• Have experience working on large complex digital reinvention and/or transformation programmes
• Are inquisitive and keen to explore areas of emerging technologies (AI, Data, Quantum, Robotics, Cloud, etc.)
• Have experience working with major technology platforms e.g. SAP, Workday, Oracle, Salesforce,
• Have experience working with major hyper-scalers e.g. Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure
• Have proven stakeholder management and communication skills, leveraged to influence and persuade on key architectural decisions
• Can work and present across different levels of architecture abstraction
• Can work across multi-disciplinary teams
• Have experience designing AI solutions

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

• Depth of knowledge within the secure UK Government sector and associated underlying technology architectures, emerging technology trends, etc
• Previous consulting experience
• Knowledge of the Government Service Manual, Technology Code of Practice (TCoP) and UK Digital/Data Strategies
• Experience working as a solution architect, enterprise architect or technology strategist
• Experience in major enterprise architecture engagements e.g. application optimisation/rationalisation, re-platforming, modernisation of enterprise data architecture
• Experience in business capability and process taxonomies, maturity assessments and alignment of gaps to enabling technology solutions
• Appreciation/Experience in designing and governing data platform architectures
• Appreciation of and interest in attaining end-to-end data skills e.g., data quality, metadata, data-mesh, data security, privacy and compliance
• Experience with Enterprise / platform / application (e.g. cloud / SAP) / data architecture
• Understanding of public and private cloud architectures
• Knowledge of leading enterprise architecture tools such as LeanIX, Avolution, Orbus, Bizzdesign etc
• Certified in COBIT, TOGAF, DCAM and/or AWS/Azure/GCP solution architecture
• Knowledge of DAMA-DMBOK
• Full proficiency of the English language

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.

Locations

London

Edinburgh

Manchester

Additional Information

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