Tech Strategy & Advisory - Data Architect - Consultant

About Accenture:

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About Capability Network:

Accenture Strategy shapes our clients future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Our focus on issues such as digital disruption, redefining competitiveness, operating and business models as well as the workforce of the future helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world. Today, every business is a digital business. Digital is changing the way organizations engage with their employees, business partners, customers, and communities how they manufacture and deliver products and services, and how they run their organizations. This is our unique differentiator. We seek people who recognize and understand the impact that digital, and technology have on every industry and every sector, and share our passion to shape unique strategies that allow our clients to succeed in this environment.

To bring this global perspective to our clients, Accenture Strategys services include those provided by our

Capability

Network- a distributed management consulting organization that provides management consulting and strategy expertise across the client lifecycle. Approximately 3,000 consultants are part of this rapidly expanding network, providing specialized and strategic industry and functional consulting expertise from key locations around the world. Our Capability Network teams complement our in-country teams to deliver cutting-edge expertise and measurable value to clients all around the world. For more information visit .

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Practice Overview:

Skill/Operating Group

Technology Consulting

Level

Consultant

Location

Gurgaon/Mumbai/Bangalore/Pune/Hyderabad/Chennai/Kolkata

Travel Percentage

Expected Travel could be anywhere between 0-100%

Why Technology Consulting

The Technology Consulting business within Capability Network invents the future for clients by providing them with the right guidance, design thinking and innovative solutions for technological transformation.

As technology rapidly evolves, its more important than ever to have an innovation advisor who can create a new vision or put one into place to solve the clients toughest business problems.

Specialize in management or technology consulting to transform the worlds leading organizations by building innovative business solutions as their trusted advisor by:

Helping Clients:Rethinking IT and Digital ecosystems and innovating to help clients keep pace with fast-changing, customer-driven environments.

Enhancing your Skillset: Building expertise and innovating with leading-edge technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud.

Transforming Businesses:Developing customized, next-generation products and services that help clients shift to new business models designed for todays connected landscape of disruptive technologies

Principal Duties

And Responsibilities:

Working closely with our clients, Consulting professionals design, build and implement strategies that can help enhance business performance. They develop specialized expertise"strategic, industry, functional, technical"in a diverse project environment that offers multiple opportunities for career growth.

The opportunities to make a difference within exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing business landscape.

Here are just a few of your day-to-day responsibilities.

Identifying, assessing, and solving complex business problems for area of responsibility, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors

Overseeing the production and implementation of solutions covering multiple cloud technologies, associated Infrastructure / application architecture, development, and operating models

Called upon to apply your solid understanding of Data, Data on cloud and disruptive technologies.

Driving enterprise business, application, and integration architecture

Helping solve key business problems and challenges by enabling an architecture transformation, painting a picture of, and charting a journey from the current state to a "to-be" enterprise environment

Lead business development activities and assist the team to achieve sales targets

Experience in participating in client presentations & orals for proposal defense etc.

Implementing programs/interventions that prepare the organization for implementation of new business processes

Assisting our clients to build the required capabilities for growth and innovation to sustain high performance

Managing multi-disciplinary teams to shape, sell, communicate, and implement programs

Experience in effectively communicating the target state, architecture & topology on cloud to clients

Deep understanding of Data and Analytics platforms, data integration w/ cloud and industry best practices in data governance and management

Provide thought leadership to the downstream teams for developing offerings and assets

Mentoring and developing our people

Qualifications


Qualifications:

Bachelors degree

MBA Degree from Tier-1 College (Preferable)

Minimum 5 -9 years of large-scale consulting experience and/or working with hi tech companies in data architecture, data governance, information security and information management.

Certified on DAMA (Data Management) or Azure Data Architecture or Google Cloud Data Analytics or AWS Data Analytics

Experience:

We are looking for experienced professionals with information strategy, data architecture, data modernization, data governance, data management, data operating model and data security experience across all stages of the innovation spectrum, with a remit to build the future in real-time.

The candidate should have practical industry expertise in one of these areas - Financial Services, Retail, consumer goods, Telecommunications, Life Sciences, Transportation, Hospitality, Automotive/Industrial, Mining and Resources.

Key Competencies and Skills:

The right candidate should have competency and skills aligned to one or more of these archetypes -

Data SME - Experience in deal shaping & strong presentation skills, leading proposal experience, customer orals; technical understanding of data platforms, data on cloud strategy, data strategy, data operating model, change management of data transformation programs, data modeling skills.

Data on Cloud Architect - Technical understanding of data platform strategy for data on cloud migrations, big data technologies, experience in architecting large scale data lake and DW on cloud solutions. Experience one or more technologies in this space:AWS, Azure, GCP, AliCloud, Snowflake, Hadoop, Cloudera

Data Strategy - Data Capability Maturity Assessment, Data & Analytics / AI Strategy, Data Operating Model & Governance, Data Hub Enablement, Data on Cloud Strategy, Data Architecture Strategy

Data Transformation Lead - Understanding of data supply chain and data platforms on cloud, experience in conducting alignment workshops, building value realization framework for data transformations, program management experience

MDM / DQ/ DG Architect - Data Governance & Management SME for areas including Data Quality, MDM, Metadata, data lineage, data catalog. Experience one or more technologies in this space:Collibra, Talend, Informatica, SAP MDG, Stibo, Alteryx, Alation etc.

Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills - ability to convey technology and business value propositions to senior stakeholders

Capacity to develop high impact thought leadership that articulates a forward-thinking view of the market

Other desired skills -

Strong desire to work in technology-driven business transformation

Strong knowledge of technology trends across IT and digital and how they can be applied to companies to address real world problems and opportunities.

Comfort conveying both high-level and detailed information, adjusting the way ideas are presented to better address varying social styles and audiences.

Leading proof of concept and/or pilot implementations and defining the plan to scale implementations across multiple technology domains

Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements

Published Thought leadership Whitepapers, POVs

Additional Information:

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion, or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic, or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.