Mainframe Innovation and Digital Core FS Offering Lead & Practitioner

Accenture • Chicago, IL

1d • $150,900 - $413,600

About The Position

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 approximately 790,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. A leading partner to the world’s major cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, and Google and Private Cloud leaders like IBM, Dell, HPE, RedHat. Our Cloud First group of more than 150,000 cloud professionals delivers a full stack of integrated cloud capabilities across data, edge, integrated infrastructure and applications, deep ecosystem skills, culture of change along with a deep industry expertise to shape, move, build and operate our clients’ businesses in the cloud. To accelerate our customers transformation leveraging omni cloud, we combine world-class learning and talent development expertise; deep experience in cloud change management; and cloud-ready operating models with a commitment to responsible business by design — with security, data privacy, responsible use of artificial intelligence, sustainability and ethics and compliance built into the fundamental changes Accenture helps companies achieve. Visit us at www.accenture.com . The Mainframe Innovation and Digital Core Financial Services Offering Lead & Practitioner is accountable for shaping, defining, and scaling Accenture’s global mainframe‑led innovation and modernization offerings as a core pillar of clients’ Digital Core transformation journeys. The role owns the end‑to‑end offering lifecycle—from strategy and investment prioritization through industrialization and market adoption—ensuring alignment with Accenture Business Groups, Industry Groups, Service Groups, and Geographies. This is a strategic leadership role part of a federated community of capability and tower leads across mainframe modernization, hybrid cloud integration, automation, AI‑enabled operations, and technical debt reduction.

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years of consulting experience (preferably strategy consulting) to communicate at a c-level, communicate across a highly matrixed organization, align multiple stakeholder groups, and drive outcomes.
• Minimum 6 years of experience with in-place or cloud Mainframe Modernization and integration with the Hybrid Cloud and use of Linux One + Integration with Public Cloud platforms, covering both functional and technical aspects with hands on experience in the Modern Mainframe versions (16 and 17).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience.
• Exceptional executive presence, with outstanding communication and presentation skills, and the ability to act as an influential industry evangelist.
• Ability to structure and lead story-driven narratives for offerings across industry specializations and technology stacks.
• Proven track record of leading large-scale business transformation initiatives driven by technology.
• Knowledge of cloud business models, and value realization across public, private, hybrid, and sovereign cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Work with practice lead leadership to set the global vision, roadmap, and investment priorities for the offerings that will drive the most revenue: examples include (Mainframe Modernization, AI, Fin Ops and Tech Debt ++)
• Align the offering to Accenture growth platforms and priority client demand; defining the value proposition, target clients (with market leads), priority industries and competitive differentiation – established overall desirability, feasibility, and viability.
• Work with Delivery Leaders to ensure delivery readiness and capabilities are included based on business case.
• Business liaison to lock down commercialization including packaging, pricing, and sales motions with proper parts of the firm.
• Partner with Sales, Industry Groups, and Geographies to generate pipeline and revenue
• Act as executive sponsor and offering SME for priority pursuits and flagship clients
• Hire, lead and coordinate Tower Offering Leads across capability domains
• Establish governance, operating cadence, and decision rights
• Ensure integrated, end-to-end solutions and consistent market messaging
• Serve as Accenture’s global counterpart to IBM offering leadership
• Shape joint strategy, innovation agenda, and co-investment priorities
• Influence product roadmaps and accelerate joint solution development
• Oversee industrialization of reusable assets, accelerators, and delivery models
• Ensure offerings are delivery-ready and scalable globally with Delivery and BG Lead
• Drive enablement across sales, solutioning, and delivery communities
• Contribute to the overall practice strategy and act as a GTM leader for priority AI opportunities, shaping the evolution of offerings in line with market demand and technology trends

Benefits

• Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees