Business Architecture Associate Director

Business Architecture Associate Director (Accenture LLP; Morristown, NJ): Accenture LLP has multiple openings for the position of Business Architecture Associate Director in Morristown, NJ, and the job duties are as follows:

• Analyze and evaluate complex client business challenges and develop transformation strategies, business cases, and technology-enabled implementation roadmaps that translate business objectives into structured technology and process initiatives across strategy, implementation, activation, and optimization phases.
• Conduct stakeholder workshops for Accenture or client organizations to gather and analyze information to define solution objectives, project specifications, functional requirements, system capabilities, and solution designs supporting enterprise planning and digital transformation initiatives.
• Analyze, design, configure, and support deployment of enterprise planning platforms across large supply chain transformation programs and demonstrate functional solutions to business stakeholders, IT teams, and development teams.
• Develop integrated enterprise views using repeatable business architecture frameworks, cohesive data integration methodologies, and industry-standard techniques to support enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate with technology architects, data teams, and platform specialists to develop enterprise solution architectures, review design specifications, and ensure alignment with enterprise technology standards.
• Provide subject matter expertise in digital supply chain planning platforms such as o9 and other enterprise planning technologies to analyze complex business problems and develop functional solution approaches to be implemented by development teams.
• Develop program deployment plans and coordinate execution activities across cross-functional teams, manage dependencies between business processes, technology systems, and data integrations, and identify project risks and mitigation strategies to support successful implementation.
• Exercise independent judgment in decision-making and determining objectives and analytical approaches to critical assignments.
• Interact with senior client stakeholders and internal Accenture leadership to facilitate alignment between business, technology, and program teams and support resolution of functional and technical issues during the solution implementation lifecycle.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

Must have a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, plus 10 years of experience (of which 5 years must be progressive post-baccalaureate experience) in the IT consulting industry.

Must have 10 years of experience in each of the following:

• Leading large-scale supply chain planning transformation programs focused on end-to-end deployment of advanced planning solutions, including hands-on analysis, functional design, business process transformation, and solution deployment;
• Analyzing business processes and operational requirements to design and implement technology-enabled solutions supporting supply chain planning and enterprise operations;
• Developing functional requirements, process models, and solution architectures for enterprise planning or supply chain planning systems;
• Designing, configuring, or implementing enterprise planning platforms, including o9 or other advanced supply chain planning solutions;
• Supporting large-scale enterprise transformation programs, including system deployment, testing, configuration, and solution implementation;
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including business stakeholders, technology architects, data teams, and development teams, to design and deploy enterprise solutions;
• Analyzing and resolving complex functional or technical issues during system design, implementation, or deployment phases;
• Capturing business requirements, facilitating design workshops, and contributing to architectural and functional design decisions for enterprise planning solutions;
• Coordinating with global delivery teams, including offshore and onsite resources, to support delivery of supply chain transformation programs, including advanced planning solution deployments, system upgrades, and module implementations; and
• Utilizing Agile or Hybrid Agile project management methodologies, including scoping, solution design, estimation, planning, and overseeing project execution while monitoring progress and providing status updates to stakeholders.

Must have willingness and ability to travel domestically approximately 80% of the time to meet client needs.

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Pursuant to the New Jersey Pay Transparency Job Posting Act, the offered wage for this role is $282,000.00 to $282,000.00 per year and information on benefits offered is here.

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