Enterprise Architect

Your job

As Enterprise architect, your responsibilities include:

• Create business architecture models that reflect our strategies and goals
• Understand the business strategy and help clients to define the link with technology
• Quickly understand a client’s (IT) Operating Model including the organization structure, processes and governance
• Navigate through the Accenture global network, and leverage the expertise to develop relevant enterprise architecture insights
• Assess the impact of the business strategy on the architecture landscape, including organization, information and infrastructure and applications.
• Lead the creation of blueprints and roadmaps for complex and large technology environments.
• Function as guardian of the architecture to make sure that new initiatives comply with the set guidelines, without jeopardizing business objectives
• Develop recommendations and translate them into actionable roadmaps
• Guide our clients through the transformation program to implement their strategies and enterprise architecture

Within the team, your role will include the following additional responsibilities:

• Interacts with senior management levels at a client and within Accenture
• Define approaches to that provide structured solutions to complex technology strategy problems of clients, by recombining existing methodologies and teams
• Be able to manage diverse teams on projects at clients, in both project supervisor as people manager role
• Implement the business development and sales plan in the BeLux region
• Contribute to setting the strategic direction for the enterprise architecture practice in the BeLux regions

Your team

Accenture Technology leverages design thinking, industry insights and the latest digital and Security methodologies to help clients innovate, grow and improve their businesses. Our expertise, capabilities and experience mean that our clients (including some of the biggest brands in the world) trust us to find the right solutions for their needs.

Together with our talented international colleagues, we focus on connecting the needs of businesses with the new possibilities that come with technological progress. Because that’s where the real challenges are: inventing and testing things that have never been tried before, getting new applications ready for roll-out, and ultimately guiding clients to select and implement the right technologies – including state of the art Security solutions - to transform their businesses.

Your background

• Understand and having applied typical patterns to renewing legacy applications
• Understand the difference between Enterprise / Platform / Solution architectures
• Experience in building functional business cartographies and interpreting the impact of business strategies on it
• Ability to define target architecture in line with modern engineering practices
• Up to speed with recent technology evolutions
• Ability to explain Enterprise architecture to IT and Non IT executives
• Master degree in Computer Science or equivalent by experience;
• 5+ years of relevant experience with enterprise architecture in a client context;
• Experience in design in areas of emerging technologies (AI, Data, Robotics, etc.) and in driving new points of view and capabilities;
• Relevant certifications are a plus, such as TOGAF, Cloud provider (AWS, GCP or Azure), Master in Enterprise Architecture.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment with a full proficiency of the English language and French or Dutch.

Our offer