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Accenture

 Location: Chicago, IL 60601 Document ID: AC256-007Q Posted on: 2018-07-0607/06/2018 Job Type: Regular

Job Schedule:Full-time
Minimum Education: Not Specified2018-08-05
 

Technology Strategy Manager

Technology Strategy Manager

 

- Job description

Organization: Accenture Strategy – Technology Strategy

Level: Manager
Location: Various locations
Travel: 80% to 100% (typically Monday through Thursday)

 

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With approximately 435,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

 

Introduction to Accenture Strategy:  

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCjn4pd9g7k

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1t4hVyjtvY

 

Technology Strategy is no longer about how technology supports the business strategy, but how technology can create new opportunities and new value.

 

Technology Strategy professionals bring a unique mixture of business and technology expertise to develop strategic plans that define how technology can create value for an organization. Working at the intersection of business and technology, these strategists work alongside client leadership to define holistic strategies that combine business objectives with technology opportunities. Technology Strategy professionals must maintain deep knowledge of evolving trends and the latest advancements in technology, strategy, and management to develop innovation solutions and approaches. These professionals understand best practices and will work to define strategies that may include governance, organization structure and staffing, enterprise architecture models, business capability models, process definitions, and enterprise operating models.  At their core, Technology Strategy professionals identify the most important client issues or opportunities, and maximize value by conducting rigorous analysis and developing strategic plans to address issues and/or seize opportunities. Learn more at www.accenture.com/us-en/technology-strategy-index.

 

Example offerings include:

 

  • Digital Strategy: addressing the issues, decisions, actions and investments required in IT to create a digital business
  • IT Value Strategy: shaping the direction of IT to align the overall shareholder and business vision and objectives and drive measurable improvements
  • Technology Innovation and Ecosystems: exploring new and emerging technologies to create a vision of how technology will shape the future and invent the next wave of cutting-edge business solutions
  • Operating Model: shaping how the IT function will need to operate to achieve the New IT and stakeholder objectives and workforce talent strategy
  • Cloud Strategy: enabling companies to access IT-based services, including infrastructure, applications, platforms and business processes, via the Internet to shape organizations’ cloud journeys
  • Enterprise Architecture Strategy: developing the foundation for client business and technology capabilities and execution improvement
  • AI Strategy: outlining usage and effectiveness of Artificial Intelligence

 

 

Job Description

 

Technology Strategy professionals create strategies and plans that define how technology should be utilized to enable an organization's overall business strategy. Applies knowledge of best practices to define how technology will shape the overall strategy, governance, organization structure and staffing, architecture and processes to maximize the impact of technology for our clients.  Maintains knowledge of evolving trends in technology strategy and management and applies those to develop innovative approaches to deliver value for our clients. Technology Strategy professionals identify the most important client technology issues, and maximize business value by conducting rigorous analyses and developing strategic multiyear road maps.

 

Managers are responsible for:

  • Managing teams in the delivery of client engagements
  • Developing trust-based client relationships with new and existing clients that lead to revenue generation 
  • Contributing to the development of various service offerings
  • Contributing to practice thought leadership, body of knowledge and service development
  • Coaching and developing practice staff

- Basic Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

 

  • Minimum of Bachelor’s degree
  • Minimum of 1 year of strategy consulting experience at a consulting firm
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in at least 2 of the example offerings (Digital Strategy, IT Value Strategy, Technology Innovation and Ecosystems, IT Operating Model, Cloud Strategy, Enterprise Architecture Strategy, AI Strategy)
  • Minimum 5 years of experience improving the business value of technology
  • Minimum 5 years of experience writing business cases (quantitative and qualitative) to support strategic business initiatives, process improvement initiatives, or IT transformation
  • Minimum 2 years of experience leading or managing small teams effectively including planning/structuring analytical work, facilitating team workshops, and developing technology strategy recommendations

 

 

Professional Skill Requirements

 

  • Experience in one or more of the following:
    • Agile strategy, Agile transformation, Agile operating model
      • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
      • Lean Software Development Lifecycle
      • Certified Scrum Master / Certified SAFe Agilest
      • Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)design and implementation experience
      • DevOps design experience
  • Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
  • Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent leadership and management skills
  • Passion for excellence and delivering client value
  • Experience leading or managing small teams effectively and planning/structuring analytical work
  • Broad, diverse experience and knowledge of major technologies (legacy to emerging).

 

 

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture.  

 

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration. 

 

Accenture is an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer of Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

 

Equal Employment Opportunity 

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.

Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.

 

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