Technology Operating (Op) Model Manager

Accenture UK & Ireland; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

3 extra days leave per year forcharity

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Technology Operating Model Manager to join our team in London, Manchester or Edinburgh. You will partner with senior technology and business leaders to design operating models that unlock value and agility, and lead large, multi-disciplinary teams through transformation initiatives.

As a manager, you will shape strategic roadmaps, influence governance, and guide value-case development, while leveraging Cloud, Data & AI and automation to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience designing modern technology operating models.
• Strong stakeholder management and client-facing skills.
• Leadership of multi-disciplinary teams and coaching.
• Familiarity with DevOps, Cloud, Data & AI concepts.

Responsibilities

• Partner with technology and business leaders to architect operating model blueprints.
• Co-create Technology Operating Model vision, strategy and design.
• Shape value cases and implementation roadmaps aligned to business goals.
• Assess industry trends to identify new capabilities and changes.
• Advise on engineering capabilities including Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Automation, Data & AI and Cloud.
• Lead and mentor client teams in adopting new operating models and engineering practices.
• Conduct Agile and modern engineering maturity assessments to improve quality and speed to market.

Skills

Technology operating model

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Agile methods

Job description

Role: Technology Operating Model Manager

Location: London, Manchester or Edinburgh

Mobility: Up to 100%

Career Level: Manager (ML7)

Do you enjoy using innovation, and the latest technologies to solve challenges and realise business goals? Do you enjoy working at the intersection of business and technology, where you're engaging with senior clients, engineers and architects, on a daily basis? Are you a critical thinker that is keen to continue exploring the untouched capabilities of technologies such as Cloud, Big Data, AI and Robotics, and how their value can be maximised in a client's landscape.

Joining the team means becoming part of a community that serve Accenture's clients with the best and brightest insights regarding technology operating model strategy, design and transformation. Our values include challenging our clients' norms, building trusted relationships, and embracing diversity as a source of creativity and inspiration. We collaborate closely with experts globally to bring the best to our clients every day and stay relevant to their changing needs.

Our teams are changing businesses every day using deep industry insights, technology knowledge and innovative ideas. Positioned at the intersection of business, technology and industry, we devise creative new strategies and target operating models, based on trends, insights and data. With an eye for competitive advantage, digital disruption, operating models, and the future workforce, we take on the challenge of designing and implementing transformative business solutions, using the technology to drive business advantage.

Your responsibilities as a technology operating model manager will include:

• Partner with technology and business leaders to architect "how" technology functions unlock business value and agility through the right operating model blueprint
• Co-creating a client's Technology Operating Model vision, strategy and design – from initial product and platform structures to organisation, governance and process designs
• Shaping value cases to articulate the case for change
• Shaping implementation approaches and roadmaps, ensuring alignment to wider business objectives
• Staying abreast of industry dynamics and the impact of trends on an organisation, to identify and formulate the need for new capabilities and operating model changes
• Advising on, designing and implementing modern engineering capabilities including Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Automation, Data & AI and Cloud
• Conducting Agile and modern engineering maturity assessments to identify opportunities to improve quality, consistency and speed to market
• Developing recommendations and translating them into actionable roadmaps for complex and large technology transformations using Lean and Agile enterprise principles
• Supporting the creation of methods and processes by area / technology function, to embed new ways of working
• Providing insights to clients on common pitfalls during operating model transformation and devising appropriate risk mitigation strategies
• Leading and coaching client teams in adopting new operating models and engineering practices
• Leading and coaching junior team members

Technology Experience:

• Experience designing modern technology operating models or are an engineering professional with a background in Data & AI, DevOps or Platform Engineering that is seeking to pivot their career towards advisory work
• Understand modern IT, Data, AI and Cloud operating model components and methodologies
• Understand functional architecture and how this informs modern IT operating model structure and design
• Are curious and passionate about exploring emerging technologies (Cloud Native, Data, AI, Robotics, etc.)

Strategic Thinking:

• Can synthesise business strategies and challenges to inform target technology operating model design
• Can simplify and explain complex business technology challenges
• Experience adapting operating model designs to meet varying client industry needs

Stakeholder Management:

• Ability to inspire teams as a leader and build consensus in high-pressure situations
• Are comfortable co-creating and partnering with technology and business leaders, working through ambiguity to architect the right outcome
• Have proven stakeholder management and communication skills, leveraged to influence and persuade client stakeholders

What’s In It For You

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.