Enterprise Architecture Manager - Industry Technology Strategy & Architecture
Accenture · Edinburgh, Scotland ·
Last confirmed by our partners on 24 Oct 2026.
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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