S&CGN - Tech Strategy & Advisory -SAP Solution Architect -Sr Manager

Location:Hyderabad, HDC2A

Must-have skills:Enterprise Architects

Good to have skills:Knowledge of emerging technologies, cloud computing, and cybersecurity best practices.

Job Summary:

This role involves driving strategic initiatives, managing business transformations, and leveraging industry expertise to create value-driven solutions.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Develop and execute technology transformation strategies, oversee implementation projects, and optimize digital capabilities for business efficiency.

The Enterprise Architect

Join our team in Technology Strategy for an exciting career opportunity to enable our most strategic clients to realize exceptional business value from technology

Practice:Technology Strategy & Advisory, Capability Network IAreas of Work:Enterprise Architecture & Business Transformation | Level:Manager | Location:Bangalore/Gurugram/Mumbai/Pune/Hyderabad/Kolkata | Years of Exp:10 to 15

Explore An Exciting Career at Accenture

Do you believe in creating an impact? Are you a problem solver who enjoys working on transformative strategies for global clients? Are you passionate about being part of an inclusive, diverse and collaborative culture?

Then, this is the right place for you! Welcome to a host of exciting global opportunities in Accenture Technology Strategy & Advisory.

The Practice- A Brief Sketch:

The Practice is a part of and focuses on the clients most strategic priorities. We help clients achieve growth and efficiency through innovative R&D transformation, aimed at redefining business models using agile methodologies.

We provide you with a great learning ground, deep-rooted in , where you will get an opportunity to advice and work with our key global clients, driving end-to-end transformative strategic value and business growth.

As a part of this high performing team, you will proactively and holistically help and guide the enterprise leaders, product managers, product owners and distributed product delivery teams through transformation and optimization initiatives, supporting the formulation of business strategy, outcomes and capabilities. Your scope of activities could include helping the organization achieve targeted business outcomes related to growing revenue, optimizing costs, mitigating risks and improving sustainability. You focus on development of the business and IT strategy and enterprise architecture of the organization as a whole.

You would be expected to:

• Facilitate alignment between business and IT, and across the democratized IT landscape
• Engage business and IT stakeholders, building and maintaining relationships
• Adapt to changing business and operating models
• Analyze trends and disruptions, and assess their impact on targeted business outcomes
• Tell stories to visualize the future state and trigger long-term planning
• Support various operating models such as project-centric and product-centric
• Communicate the value of enterprise architecture, and its portfolio of services
• Drive the evolution of the EA teams services and operating model
• Coach and mentor other architects, product owners/managers and business stakeholders to instill architectural thinking
• Scope of Activities:As an Enterprise Architect, you will demonstrate competencies across four key dimensions:
• Support Formulation of Strategy and Guide Execution
• Lead the analysis of business and operating models, market trends and the technology industry to determine their potential impact on the enterprises business strategy, direction, and architecture.
• Provide perspective on the readiness of the organization to change and innovate through scenario planning techniques, and supports formulation of business strategy.
• Uses planning-driven, design-driven and learning-driven approaches to construct future- and current-state business models.
• Connects Strategy to Execution
• Facilitate business and IT alignment, connecting strategy to execution, through a collaborative, supportive and consultative manner, driving the organizations digital business strategies and balancing innovation and growth.
• Translate and guide execution of business strategy to achieve the organizations targeted business outcomes.
• Build and Maintain Relationships
• Build the EA value proposition, contributing to positioning the EA practice as an internal management consultancy, offering services and skills to support the development and execution of business strategy.
• Develop a portfolio of consulting services, designed to meet business and stakeholder needs, and delivers in an agile and time-boxed way.
• Determine the relationship between people, processes, information, technology and other components of the enterprise operating model.
• Enable value-based messaging and manage cross-functional relationships
• Provide consultative advice, adapted to stakeholder context, to business leaders and organizational stakeholders who seek actionable recommendations to make investment decisions about the next business and operating model of their organization, using technology to make that change happen.
• Lead interaction with business leaders, product managers and product owners in a business-driven conversation over the risks and implications of the product decision to the line of business, business unit and greater enterprise.
• Orchestrate the Delivery of Business Outcomes
• Position the EA practice at the intersection of business and IT. Ensure that the EA practice is designed and enabled to formulate, translate and execute business strategy.
• Work with business architects and business leaders to identify key drivers and targeted business outcomes to derive useful business context.
• Bring alignment across business and IT
• Lead analysis of the business future-state capabilities and future (and current) IT environment to detect critical gaps and opportunities and recommend solutions for improvement to drive the business towards its targeted outcomes.
• Identify organizational requirements for the resources, structure and cultural changes necessary to support the enterprise architecture.
• Work with the CIO and IT leaders to find the right EA organizational design to drive business-outcomes.
• Ensure that the EA organizational design process leads to a more efficient and effective business and IT operating model, significantly improved results and EA resources empowered and committed to the integration of business and IT.
• Support Solution Design and Delivery
• Maintain the alignment, integration and coordination of architecture activities across different programs, projects and products as they evolve over time.
• Present gap analyses and/or IT investment roadmaps that reflect the status of the existing IT landscape, namely, its ability to contribute to future-state business capabilities around ecosystems and digital platforms.
• Lead analysis of the IT environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Lead the development of an implementation plan for the enterprise architecture based on business requirements and the varying IT strategies for project-driven or product-driven delivery teams.
• Support solution design and delivery
• Develop and apply minimal viable architectures, which can include a set of standards, reference architecture patterns, principles and guardrails, through the EA governance model, which is informed by the business strategy and corporate governance.
• Facilitate a collaborative relationship across architecture community, product management and product delivery teams by providing freedom-in-a-box for decision making, with the minimal viable architecture forming the boundaries of the box.
• Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to leverage shared technologies, tools and processes that impact speed to value and time to market.
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure consistency with the enterprise architecture, as well as to identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise architecture.

Professional & Technical Skills:

- Relevant experience in the required domain.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Additional Information:

- Opportunity to work on innovative projects.

- Career growth and leadership exposure.

Qualification

Experience:12-14Years

Educational Qualification:Any Degree.