Technology Strategy/Enterprise Architect Senior Manager

Accenture Middle East; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Competitive rewards

Job summary

Accenture Middle East is seeking a Technology Strategy Senior Manager to lead high-impact engagements in the UAE. You will guide multi-disciplinary teams to design enterprise roadmaps, transform technology functions, and align IT initiatives with business strategy.

The role requires strong leadership, deep technology strategy expertise, and fluency in Arabic and English. Dubai/Abu Dhabi-based with opportunities for advancement and exposure to global clients.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of work experience in IT/Digital technology strategy.
• Proven consulting experience or strong in-house IT & Digital strategy/enterprise architecture with exceptional skills.
• Arabic speaker and fluent English.

Responsibilities

• Apply deep technology strategy development to influence C-level agenda.
• Interact with senior management at client and Accenture.
• Lead complex end-to-end engagements across delivery components.
• Originates business opportunities and leads the sales cycle to closure.
• Drive technology function transformation to align with business strategy.
• Collaborate across business, technology and cross-functions to maximize value.
• Develop thought leadership assets with actionable insights.
• Foster collaboration across Accenture and ecosystem partners.

Skills

Technology strategy

Consulting

Client leadership

Arabic language

English language

Job description

Technology Strategy Senior Manager

Location- Dubai/Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 799,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Accenture Digital Core

In today’s world, business leaders want to rapidly and confidently reinvent to increase resilience, mitigate risk, and grow with sustainable value. That’s where Accenture Digital Core comes in. We bring together strategic visionaries, industry experts, practitioners from across every enterprise function, 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Apply deep technology strategy development, architecting value, operating model and architecture skills to influence C-level client agenda through technology insights
  
• Pro-actively interact and collaborate with senior management levels at client and/or within Accenture
  
• Lead complex engagements end-to-end across all delivery components: client satisfaction, value delivered, teams management, financials, etc.
  
• Originate business opportunities within a client and lead end-to-end the business development effort with client and Accenture teams until successful sale closure
  
• Drive leaders to transform the technology function to achieve operational excellence and tight alignment with business strategy
  
• Collaborate with business, technology and cross-functions to maximize value of technology investments and alignment to strategic priorities
  
• Lead the creation of well-articulated thought leadership assets that present innovative and action-oriented insights, knowledge, guidance and recommendations on a specific market-relevant technology strategy
  
• Drive internally technology strategy skills, assets and capability building and identify opportunities for collaboration across Accenture and ecosystem partners to win in the market
  

Key Skills

• Strong data-driven consulting with focus on business and technology value architecting and realization
  
• Deep understanding and proven skills in delivering core technology strategy offerings - IT & Digital technology strategy, Enterprise architecture, IT & Digital organization and operating model, Cloud, Data & Analytics, IT Cost reduction, IT M&A
  
• Strong awareness of tech trends in the market’s context
  
• Ability to shape client objectives and influence decision making at senior management levels
  
• Ability to pull together multi-disciplinary teams for technology strategy, lead and coordinate to achieve shared outcomes
  
• Ability to pull-through business opportunities and close them
  

Qualifications

• Minimum 15+ years’ work experience - at least 8 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 (but would have to demonstrate exceptional intrinsic consulting skills)
  
• Arabic speaker 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
  

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