Enterprise Architecture Manager - AI & Data Strategy Lead

Accenture UK & Ireland; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

3 extra days leave per year for Charit

Job summary

Accenture UK & Ireland invites an experienced Enterprise Architecture Manager to lead architecture workstreams across client engagements in London, Manchester or Edinburgh. You will shape scope, drive multi-year roadmaps, and steer the AI and data strategy while managing complex stakeholder relationships.

You will guide modernisation programs, craft business-focused value cases, and ensure governance and standards across IT portfolios, influencing executive-level outcomes and client success.

Qualifications

• Tackle complex information to surface trends and root causes while managing ambiguity.
• Plan, prioritise, and ensure quality across architecture workstreams and teams.
• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and lead multi-vendor collaborations.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture workstreams and delivery within enterprise architecture engagements, shaping scope, mobilising teams, managing plans, risks, issues, client expectations and project commercials, and setting out clear implications, options and trade-offs.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

High-level thinking

Execution

Collaboration

Communication

Learning and development

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

ArchiMate

LeanIX

Ardoq

Job description

Accenture UK & Ireland invites an experienced Enterprise Architecture Manager to lead architecture workstreams across client engagements in London, Manchester or Edinburgh. You will shape scope, drive multi-year roadmaps, and steer the AI and data strategy while managing complex stakeholder relationships.

You will guide modernisation programs, craft business-focused value cases, and ensure governance and standards across IT portfolios, influencing executive-level outcomes and client success.