Application Portfolio Strategy Consultant - Mississauga, ON Job

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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.

Application Portfolio Operations professionals analyze complex application portfolios and develop strategies tailored to clients' business and technical demands.

Application Portfolio Strategy professionals provide skills and experience related to overseeing application portfolio optimization projects (typically a senior role) including application architecture, strategy formulation, application portfolio management, work planning and business case development.

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, including provides insights to move toward to identify tactical and strategic changes

· Identifying opportunities for revitalizing and renewing legacy applications

· Delivering pragmatic planning for applications and technology that is aligned to client business needs and enterprise-wide needs

· Working to evaluate functional and technical adequacy of an application portfolio in alignment with IT strategies and business needs

· 3 years experience in Enterprise Architecture, Application Architecture, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), Business Architecture, Functional Design are required

· Experience in business architecture, application rationalization, replatforming or renewal, architecture governance, Custom Solution Planning, Delivery Planning, Enterprise Architecture Planning, Estimation & Planning, High Level Enterprise Architecture Design, Legacy Systems, SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), SOA Business Value, Value Creation, Value Realization

· Ability to travel 100%

· Bachelor's degree required

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 more than 186,000 people in 49 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$23.39 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2008. 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: Technology
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Location: Canada-Ontario - Mississauga
Organization: Consulting
Schedule: Full-time

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