Technology Strategy/ Enterprise Architect Manager

Accenture; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services company in Riyadh is seeking a Technology Strategy/Enterprise Architect Manager to drive technology business solutions. This role involves leading initiatives, collaborating with clients, and leveraging technology for strategic insights. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in IT strategy, consulting, and industry expertise in financial services, along with fluency in Arabic and English.

Benefits

Transparent career progression

Continuous coaching from senior colleagues

Flexible work arrangements

Access to state-of-the-art technology

Opportunities to impact communities

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years in IT/Digital technology strategy.
• Proven consulting experience or strong in-house strategy roles.
• Experience in technology advisory or implementation.

Responsibilities

• Drive structured approach to solve technology business problems.
• Identify value creation opportunities at the intersection of business and technology.
• Lead small engagements or work streams across all delivery components.
• Nurture business opportunities and support business development.
• Collaborate with clients to align business and technology priorities.
• Develop thought leadership assets in technology strategy.
• Steer recommendations with senior management buy-in.

Skills

Data-driven consulting

Business and technology value architecting

Team management

Core technology strategy understanding

Technology advisory experience

Industry experience in Financial Services

Business knowledge beyond technical role

Education

8-15 years of work experience

Fluent in Arabic and English

Job description

Technology Strategy/ Enterprise Architect Manager – Financial Sector

Location- Riyadh, KSA

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 Strategy & Consulting

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 Strategy & Consulting 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

• Drive rigorous and structured approach to identifying and solving complex technology business problems that leads to strategic insights
• Identify/prioritize value creation opportunities at the intersection of business and technology based on assessment activities and an understanding of high-level visions, performance gaps, and needs
• Lead independently small engagements or stream of work end-to-end across all delivery components: client satisfaction, value delivered, teams management, financials, etc.
• Identify and nurture pull-through business opportunities, support business development effort with client and Accenture teams until successful sale closure
• Collaborate with clients and within Accenture to align their business and technology priorities
• Develop content knowledge and share through pro-active involvement in technology strategy operations and community of practices
• Lead the creation of well-articulated thought leadership assets that present innovative insights, knowledge, guidance and recommendations on a specific market-relevant technology strategy domain
• Interaction with senior management at a client and/or Accenture to steer recommendations and obtain buy-in on matters that may require alternate approach

Key Skills

• Strong data-driven consulting with focus on business and technology value architecting and realization
• Ability to act independently to determine methods and procedures on assignments
• Management of team efforts at a client or within Accenture
• Ability to pull-through business opportunities
• Experience and understanding of core technology strategy offerings – IT & Digital technology strategy, enterprise architecture, operating model, data & analytics, cloud
• Experience in technology advisory and/or implementation
• Industry experience in Financial Services/ investment management / asset management sector, specifically within public sector or government owned entities directly or through consulting engagements
• Pro-actively acquired business knowledge beyond technical role or via business school i.e. MBA

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Qualifications

• Minimum 8-15 years’ of total work experience - at least 5 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 speaking 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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