Technology Strategy Senior Manager

Accenture Federal Services•Chantilly, VA

6d•$192,700 - $238,000

About The Position

At Accenture Federal Services, our purpose is to make the US federal government stronger and safer, and to improve lives. We are a technology company within Accenture, with over 13,000 employees dedicated to leveraging technology and innovation for clients in defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations. We are recognized as a Glassdoor Top 100 Best Place to Work, offering a collaborative and supportive community where employees can grow and thrive through hands-on experience, certifications, and industry training. We are seeking a Technology Strategy Senior Manager to serve as a trusted advisor to our Defense clients, shaping and executing their business transformation agendas through the strategic application of technology.

Requirements

5+ years of experience with designing and operating two or more of the following at a large enterprise (500+ users) and across multiple data centers: Service Design to include requirements identification, identification of Courses of Action (CoAs), market evaluation and assessment of technologies and products through a quantitative process, and design and integration into the production environment.
5+ years of experience with Microsoft Active Directory and Identity Federation (MS Active Directory Federation, Radiant Logic, Key Cloak, and Ping Identity).
5+ years of experience with Single Sign On (SSO) using modern standards (such as SAML, OAuth, and OpenID).
5+ years of experience with Federal Enterprise ICAM.
5+ years of experience with Implementation of federal Zero Trust.
5+ years of experience with Defining and implementing metadata in the form of data and user/resource object (i.e. user, device, application, and service account) tagging and labeling.
5+ years of experience with Enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (such as Microsoft Active Directory Integrated Certificate Authorities) and the supporting multi-tier Certificate Authorities.
5+ years of experience with Storage Services (such as SAN, Software Defined Storage, Storage as a Service).
5+ years of experience with Networking Services with experience in two or more of the following; eBGP, MPLS, DMVPN, satellite, or performance optimization over high latency paths.
5+ years of experience with Designing and operating a highly available virtual hosting environment across multiple data centers in support of an organization’s DR and COOP requirements.
3 years of experience with designing, migrating to, and operating services in a public government cloud (i.e. AWS, Azure, Google).
3 years of experience with developing services and obtaining ATO through a Federal Risk Management Framework.
3 years of experience with enterprise change control where you have led the change from design creation to ATO.
Active Top Secret with SCI eligibility clearance required, and the candidate must be willing to obtain a polygraph.

Nice To Haves

DevSecOps experience
Mult iCloud (AWS, VMWare) expertise
Excellent written and verbal communication: Effective verbal and non-verbal communication with peers and C-Suite level customer leadership.
Experience in project and task management using the Agile framework.
Able to engage with users in a professional manner and present technical concepts plainly to semi-technical customers.
Ability to work in a matrixed team environment and support multiple different efforts with dynamic shift in focus with changing customer needs.

Responsibilities

Understand the client's business strategy and lead the definition of the link between their technology and the overall architecture landscape, including organization, information, and infrastructure & applications.
Quickly assess the client's IT operating model, including organizational structure, processes, and governance.
Conduct rigorous analysis to identify the client's key IT strengths and weaknesses, leveraging deep technology and industry knowledge.
Coordinate the creation of blueprints, recommendations, and actionable roadmaps for complex and large technology environments, including building future-proof architectures using modern technologies like cloud, edge computing, next-gen connectivity, event streaming, and platform architectures.
Manage the full lifecycle of strategy definition, ensuring the right setup during the process and functioning as a guardian of the architecture to ensure initiatives and roadmap development align with set guidelines without jeopardizing business objectives.