Technology Strategy/Enterprise Architect Consultant

Overview

About Accenture
The Accenture strategy and consulting business helps leaders reinvent to increase resilience, mitigate risk, and grow with sustainable value. We bring together strategic visionaries, industry experts, practitioners from across enterprise functions, business intelligence professionals, change specialists, data and AI authorities, and many other specialized skills to co-create each client's unique path to reinvention. You will be a trusted partner to business leaders, working with a diverse team of experts to deliver successful tech-enabled transformation and new kinds of value for your clients.

Location: Dubai/Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive rigorous and structured approach to identifying and solving complex technology business problems that leads to strategic insights
• Identify/prioritize value creation opportunities at the intersection of business and technology based on assessment activities and an understanding of high-level visions, performance gaps, and needs
• Lead independently small 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 effort with client and Accenture teams until successful sale closure
• Collaborate with clients and within Accenture to align their business and technology priorities
• Develop content knowledge and share through pro-active involvement in technology strategy operations and community of practices
• Lead the creation of well-articulated thought leadership assets that present innovative insights, knowledge, guidance and recommendations on a specific market-relevant technology strategy domain
• Interact with senior management at a client and/or Accenture to steer recommendations and obtain buy-in on matters that may require alternate approach

Key Skills

• Strong data-driven consulting with 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 pull-through business opportunities
• Experience and understanding of core technology strategy offerings - IT & Digital technology strategy, enterprise architecture, operating model, data & analytics, cloud
• Experience in technology advisory and/or implementation
• Industry experience in Retail or related industries either directly or through consulting engagements
• Pro-actively acquired business knowledge beyond technical role or via business school i.e. MBA

External Hire Archetype

• Minimum 4-8 years of total work experience - at least 3 years in IT/Digital technology strategy
• Proven and relevant past consulting experience; alternatively strong in-house IT & Digital strategy / enterprise architecture division / advanced startup / pre-sales roles (and demonstration of intrinsic consulting skills)
• Arabic speaking must and fluent English

Why join us?

• We offer a transparent, fast paced approach career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues
• You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools
• Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards
• You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends
• You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live

Next Steps

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