Solution Architect

Job Description

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 738,000 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 with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed 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.

At Accenture, our philosophy is anchored in recognising that our people are multi-dimensional. We take an intersectional human approach to create a work environment where all people feel like they can bring their authentic selves to work, every day.

Location : This position will be based in Australia. Candidate maybe required to travel to different areas of Australia

Responsibilities :

Drive presales activities, including developing end-to-end technology solutions, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and industry best practices.

Achieve revenue targets by  selling through the sales teams, and driving business development activities

Translate between business problems and technology solutions

Collaborate with client sales teams to engage with clients, understand business challenges, and propose tailored solutions

Provide subject matter expertise across Application Services, Managed Infrastructure services, Cloud Migration, Data Analytics, Database Services, Cloud Optimisation and Security and Compliance.

Work with the client and internal team to identify future needs to align with product suit

Provide specifications according to which the solution is defined, managed, and delivered

Keep current with trends and technological innovations

Develop long-term technology road maps for client solutions

Conduct technical review of existing client solutions to determine future mapping to managed solutions

Influence technology direction with solid analysis

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Qualifications

Education :

Bachelor's Degree in information technology, computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience

Technical skills :

Strong technology background that includes consulting and pre-sales experience

Experience in architecting or engineering with Public, Private and Hybrid cloud

Experience in managing customer on premise infrastructure and applications

Proficiency with cloud migration techniques; re-host, re-platform, refactor

Experience in architecting and deployment of one or more of Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Azure Cloud, AWS Cloud, Infrastructure Managed Services and Hyperion

Sound understanding of Database refactoring into PaaS Based services like Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Azure Managed instances, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database PaaS

Sound understanding of BI, Data warehouse and ETL processes in public cloud deployments

Deep understanding of RDMS and NOSQL Databases

Articulate the journey towards micro services – Containers, Kubernetes or service fabric

Deep understanding of Network and security cloud native components in pure public cloud deployments

Experience with cloud migration tools and methodologies

Advanced knowledge of cloud computing, migration, disaster recovery, virtualization and managed services

Functional skills :

Ability to independently plan, prioritize and organize effectively

Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks

Ability to make decisions and solve problems while working under pressure

Strong client service orientation and expert client engagement skills

Express a passion for technology and keeping informed of market trends

Ability to research and obtain new product and technical knowledge, with the ability to learn quickly

Have the expertise and ability to interact with any level of an organization

Ability to define and recommend solutions based on data analysis

Excellent communication and presentation skills, including strong negotiation skills

Confidence in making technical and business decisions

Applicant can demonstrate a history of achieving of retiring sales targets (growth / whitespace)

Able to demonstrate and ability to rapidly scope and qualify potential opportunities

Locations

Ballarat, Melbourne

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