Accenture - Manager - Solution Architect - HR CoE

Job Title : Solution Architect Manager

Organization : Centres of Expertise

Reports to : Solution Architect Senior Manager

Career Level : Manager

Specialty :Human Resources

Role Outline :

- The Solution Architect plays a key role toward helping Accenture employees unleash their potential, build extraordinary careers and lead themselves and their clients to high performance. The Solution Architect is a steward of our HR vision and is passionate around partnering with CoE counterparts to design and deliver solutions that delight our employees and bring this vision to life.

- The Solution Architect provides leadership, vision and oversight to indirect teams (Shared Services, Development/Delivery teams)and drives business case development, business requirements / user stories, and solution blueprints; provides oversight for implementation/delivery activities and ultimately, ensures business value is realized for our technology initiatives.

- The Solution Architect may also be responsible for effective operations management of our technology solutions.

- The Solution Architect must apply knowledge of various global entities, geographies, business practices and workforces, as well as Accenture's strategic business objectives, to successfully execute key responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities :

HR IT Strategy :

- Understand our HR Strategy and provide input to both our HR and CoE technology strategies

Business Acumen :

- Develop and maintain expertise in talent development processes and understanding of related processes to ensure integration with other organization, process, and technology areas.

- Develop and maintain an understanding of industry and technology trends related to area of responsibility.

Leadership and People Development :

- Provide leadership, vision and oversight for anydirect Solution Architect team(s) and any indirect teams involved in development/delivery.

- Operate with a large degree of autonomy and independence, deliver high quality work, and collaborate effectively with other business, process and technology teams.

Stakeholder Management :

- Build and manage stakeholder relationships across business, process and technology teams, driving coordination, communication and ensuring solutions meet overall business objectives.

- Partner with Discipline team to plan and manage change efforts including identifying key stakeholders and their goals and expectations and monitor change progress (e.g. commitment curve).

Technology Design & Development :

- Drive initiative and operations functions for our technology solutions.

- Support the business case process, from providing input to driving the business case.

- Drive business, functional, and application requirements, prioritizing them by cost and opportunity within Accenture's overall business strategy, and ensuring overall alignment to other initiatives / integration with other enterprise systems.

- Design processes, procedures, systems requirements, communications, learning & performance support, and other enabling tools necessary to effectively operationalize the initiative(s).s

- Ensure agility/adaptability of technology solutions to enable support for changing business needs.

- Drive application requirements through delivery and adoption.

Operations Management :

- Drive initiative and operations functions for our technology solutions.

- Efficiently and effectively manage processes, resources and technologies to ensure the smooth flow of production operations to meet cost, quality, controls and delivery targets.

Financial Management :

- Effectively manage initiative and operations budgets, including forecasting and managing/mitigating risk.

Technology Delivery :

- Effectively balance initiative release components (e.g., scope, quality, schedule) to ensure successful release of new capabilities.

- Manage implementation activities related to talent development technology initiatives, including providing direction to and signing off work performed by Shared Service development teams (AL, CIO).

This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions. It does not prescribe or restrict responsibilities that may be assigned.

Interaction : Governance over shared services teams

Supervision : May supervise :

- Solution Architect Senior Specialist

- Solution Architect Specialist

Qualifications and Experience :

Education : Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.