Enterprise Architecture Consultant - Mississauga, ON Job

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Accenture's Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.

Working as a consultant with Accenture, you will build core business, technology and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses. Consultants must be professionals who have an interest in how business processes work and interact. In addition, consultants need to apply their skills in project and program management while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, and organizational change. Finally, consultants also need to have a working knowledge of the industry and/or the functional areas they serve.

The Consulting workforce is made up of three groups: Management Consulting, Systems Integration Consulting and Technology Consulting. This consulting group structure provides outstanding opportunities to develop highly specialized skills that will help you advance your career.

Job Description

Technology Consulting professionals are responsible for delivering technology innovation and providing the backbone of our systems integration business.

IT Strategy & Transformation professionals create strategies and plans that define how information technology should be utilized to support an organization's overall business strategy. They apply knowledge of standards and best practices to define governance, organization structure and staffing, architecture and processes for managing portfolios of projects. They maintain knowledge of evolving trends in IT strategy and management and apply those to develop innovative business solutions. Enterprise Architecture professionals apply Accenture and other methods and standards to define current and future enterprise architecture -- the current and desired relationships among business and management processes and an organization's IT software, hardware, networks, people and operations.

Key responsibilities may include:
· Driving, supervising and reviewing technology diagnosis and assessment activities
· Identifying opportunities for technology-related improvement based on benchmark data and doing high-level cost benefit analysis
· Developing a high level design which supports a robust technology solution, taking into account the user requirements, technical requirements, etc.
· Driving technology architecture and infrastructure design activities
· Reviewing and supervising design components
· Developing design and transition approaches
· Driving and supervising technology build, test and deployment activities
· Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and supporting application development

· Experience in Architecture Planning, Application Portfolio Optimization, Architecture Governance, High-Level Architecture Design, Business Value of SOA

· Broad, diverse experience and knowledge of major technologies - both legary and emerging

· Understanding of business parameters and drivers

· Good understanding of Business Case Development

· Demonstrated mastery of the 'technology stack' from infrastructure thru business logic and applications

· Familiarity with CIO Agenda offerings

· Experience working with CTO/CIO

· At least one deep technology skill (infra, networks, applications, EAI, BI, security, etc.)

· Enterprise Architecture Tools such as Popkin, Meta and Troux

· Familiarity with IT Strategy process

· Ability to set own direction and leverage subgroup skills and capital to convert initial engagements into major delivery opportunities

· Ability to meet travel 75% to 100% of the time

Professional Skill Requirements

· Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
· Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
· Desire to work in an information systems environment
· Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills and technologies to help clients improve their performance. With approximately 170,000 people in 49 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$19.70 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2007. Its home page is www.accenture.com .

We are committed to employment equity. We encourage all people, including women, visible minorities, persons with disabilities and persons of aboriginal descent to apply.

Job: Application Architecture & Integration
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Location: Canada-Ontario - Mississauga
Organization: Consulting
Schedule: Full-time

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