Enterprise Architecture Manager - Industry Technology Strategy & Architecture

As Enterprise Architecture Manager at Accenture, you shape and deliver enterprise architecture engagements for clients, aligning business strategy with technology roadmaps. You will lead cross-functional teams, govern architecture workstreams, and drive modernisation initiatives in the AI era. You’ll build value cases, steer multi-stakeholder decisions, and produce executive-ready outputs. This role places you at the heart of client transformation with a focus on governance, data, and platform architecture.

• competitive basic salary
• extensive benefits package
• private medical insurance
• 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work

• Own architecture workstreams and delivery within enterprise architecture engagements, shaping scope, mobilising teams, managing plans, risks, issues, client expectations and project commercials
• Assess how business strategy and industry trends drive the need for change across organisation, applications, data, infrastructure and operations
• Define and co-create the enterprise architecture vision, target-state architecture and multi-year roadmaps, aligned to business objectives
• Drive modernisation for the AI/intelligence era through application rationalisation and consolidation that reduces complexity and duplication
• Build value cases and investment justifications aligned to client planning cycles, identifying levers such as cost reduction, technical-debt treatment and platform consolidation
• Guide and conclude key architectural decisions across business, technology and third-party stakeholders in multi-vendor ecosystems
• Apply and help mature enterprise architecture governance, frameworks and standards, including IT governance
• Define enterprise data and AI platform, integration and automation strategies, including AI-enabled and agentic architectures, and create reusable assets, blueprints and accelerators
• Build and sustain strong client relationships, including with senior stakeholders such as the Head of Enterprise Architecture, CTO and CIO
• Support senior leadership in sales and origination by identifying and qualifying opportunities, shaping proposals and statements of work, and matching client needs to relevant Accenture offerings
• Lead medium-to-large teams or work efforts, setting clear objectives and standards, coordinating and delegating work, and building an effective, positive team environment
• Coach, mentor and develop team members through regular feedback and formal performance responsibilities, addressing development needs and contributing to hiring, staffing and resourcing decisions
• Own the quality of documents, presentations, architecture outputs and other deliverables produced by the team, ensuring they are rigorous, coherent and ready to be presented to C-suite and executive-level audiences
• Contribute to the growth and effective operation of the Accenture practice and ITSA by leading capability-building and community initiatives, supporting recruitment, sharing knowledge, developing reusable assets and thought leadership, and meeting internal business obligations

• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent; advanced architecture certification such as TOGAF Certified is advantageous
• Proven track record leading enterprise architecture engagements or programmes and establishing governance
• Deep expertise in architecture strategy, modelling and planning, governance and frameworks
• Strong command of application, solution and technology architecture design and roadmaps
• Experience with multi-vendor stakeholder management and architecture decision making
• Fluency with IT governance and IT service management principles
• Professional-level cloud or platform architecture certifications desirable

• High-level thinking and ambiguity tolerance
• Execution with discipline and risk management
• Collaborative and inclusive relationship-building
• TOGAF or equivalent framework
• ArchiMate, LeanIX, Ardoq (EA tooling)
• AI & data platform architecture