Organization: Corporate Functions/CIO
Location: Los Angeles
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People in the Corporate Function contribute to the running of Accenture as a high- performance business through specialization within a specific functional area, and grow into internally focused roles by deepening their skills and/or developing new skills within an internal functional area.
Job Description
The CIO Organization is a world-class, global and rapidly evolving IT organization with the courage, ability and capabilities to drive Accenture's digital agenda. We are setting the industry benchmark for visioning and creating the global social enterprise. We will accelerate the deployment of leading-edge technologies which enable our people and which our clients seek to replicate. Members of the Accenture CIO organization:
- Contribute to a global network of talented IT consultants across the business, enabling high-performance by creating and delivering Accenture's business applications and technology infrastructure.
- Collaborate and innovate to connect our people with the technology they need to build market relevant skills and be impactful to the business.
- Run IT as a business - with strict standards of availability and performance, and with world beating cost effectiveness - as a result being brand critical to Accenture.
- Continually experience new and engaging opportunities, challenging work, flexibility, career sponsorship and mentoring, and recognition for our contributions - throughout the journey. Living the adventure.
- Contribute to thought leadership and strategic analysis of architecture opportunities
- Assist in the development and enhancement capabilities of the Accenture Technology Architecture
- Provide supervision to technology architecture teams consisting of CIO technical architects, developers, and on-loan personnel across the entire development lifecycle
- Provide architecture direction to and influence execution of application teams
- Work with application teams, operations, infrastructure and security initiatives to identify appropriate architecture extensions and process improvements
- Monitor to ensure proper governance practices are in place
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Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum of 15 years experience
- Minimum of 6 years industry experience with leading or defining application or infrastructure architecture strategy and product roadmaps
- Minimum of 6 years industry experience developing and architecting enterprise scale services or solutions
- Experience integrating complex or large systems (both custom and vendor)
- Experience with leading application or infrastructure development projects
- Basic understanding across a breadth of technology architectures (application, infrastructure, mobile, cloud, etc.)
- Ability to determine boundaries for the components of an architecture, articulate the strengths and weaknesses with alternative solutions and recommend and defend an overall architecture solution
- Ability to drive work based on Agile delivery methodologies
- Strong analytical troubleshooting skills and techniques with the ability to work on issues alone to obtain a fast resolution
- Strong technical aptitude; proven ability to quickly learn new technologies
- Good technical writing and oral communications skills
- Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian
- Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian
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