Banking Enterprise Architect Manager | Strategy

Accenture UK & Ireland; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days vacation

Private medical insurance

3 extra days leave for charitable work

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland in London, Manchester and Edinburgh is seeking an Enterprise Architect Manager for Banking to join our Strategy & Advisory practice. You will operate at the intersection of business strategy, technology and industry transformation, shaping target architectures and guiding major investment decisions.

As part of Strategy & Advisory, you will collaborate with executives, engineers and partners to translate ambitions into actionable architectural directions, balancing

Qualifications

• Experience across all enterprise architecture domains in large-scale transformations.
• Strong architectural judgement to engage with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams across complex environments.
• Experience applying data, AI, cloud and automation to enterprise objectives.

Responsibilities

• Shaping enterprise architectural direction in response to business strategy, industry dynamics, and regulatory context, helping clients understand implications, options, and trade-offs across organisation, applications, data, infrastructure, and operations.
• Translating complex technology environments into clear architectural roadmaps and value cases that support executive decision-making and investment prioritisation, applying Lean and Agile enterprise principles to enable incremental and sustainable change.
• Guiding architectural decisions across multi-vendor ecosystems, working effectively between business, technology, and third-party stakeholders to align on key architectural outcomes.
• Providing enterprise-level architecture governance that enables delivery and strategic alignment while managing risk, ensuring new initiatives support business objectives without constraining progress.
• Supporting the definition and evolution of enterprise architecture operating models, including maturity assessments and implementation roadmaps as part of broader transformation programmes.
• Leading workstreams and small teams, coaching junior architects and taking accountability for outcomes, not just architectural artefacts, within client engagements.

Job description

Accenture UK & Ireland in London, Manchester and Edinburgh is seeking an Enterprise Architect Manager for Banking to join our Strategy & Advisory practice. You will operate at the intersection of business strategy, technology and industry transformation, shaping target architectures and guiding major investment decisions.

As part of Strategy & Advisory, you will collaborate with executives, engineers and partners to translate ambitions into actionable architectural directions, balancing