Enterprise Architecture Manager - Industry Technology Strategy & Architecture

Accenture · Edinburgh, Scotland ·

Last confirmed by our partners on 24 Oct 2026.

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Overview

In this role you lead enterprise architecture engagements to shape strategic roadmaps and governance across business, data, and technology. You’ll drive AI-enabled modernization, manage multi-vendor ecosystems, and build compelling value cases for client planning. You work closely with senior stakeholders to translate business priorities into executable architectures and reusable assets. This is a chance to influence large-scale transformations within a global technology strategy practice.

Pay / Benefits

  • private medical insurance
  • extensive benefits package
  • 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work

Responsibilities

  • Lead architecture workstreams and delivery within enterprise architecture engagements, including scoping, planning, risk management, and client expectations
  • Assess how business strategy and industry trends drive change across applications, data, infrastructure, and operations
  • Define enterprise architecture vision, target-state, and multi-year roadmaps aligned to business objectives
  • Drive AI-era modernization through application rationalisation and consolidation to reduce complexity
  • Build value cases and investment justifications aligned to client planning cycles
  • Guide key architectural decisions across business, technology and third-party stakeholders in multi-vendor contexts
  • Mature enterprise architecture governance, frameworks, and IT governance practices
  • Define data and AI platform, integration and automation strategies with reusable assets and blueprints
  • Maintain strong client relationships with senior stakeholders (Head of EA, CTO, CIO)
  • Support sales/origination by identifying opportunities and shaping proposals
  • Lead medium-to-large teams, set objectives, delegate work, and foster a positive team environment
  • Ensure quality and rigor of architecture outputs and executive-ready deliverables
  • Contribute to practice growth through capability-building, knowledge sharing, and thought leadership

Key requirements

  • Experience leading enterprise architecture engagements or programmes
  • Strong command of enterprise architecture strategy, modelling, planning, governance, and frameworks
  • Proven ability to assess and architect enterprise-level solutions and IT portfolios end to end
  • Deep capability in application, solution, and technology architecture design and roadmapping
  • Track record in establishing architecture governance
  • Fluency with IT governance and IT service management principles
  • Collaboration and building trusted cross-team relationships
  • Clear, audience-appropriate communication and risk surfacing
  • Strategic thinking with ability to simplify complex information
  • TOGAF or equivalent framework
  • IT governance and IT service management principles
  • EA tooling and modelling standards (ArchiMate, LeanIX, Ardoq)
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