Technology Strategy Senior Manager

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a Technology Strategy Senior Manager to serve as a trusted advisor to our Defense clients. In this role, you will shape and execute their business transformation agendas through the strategic application of technology.

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 your deep technology and industry knowledge.
• Coordinate the creation of blueprints, recommendations, and actionable roadmaps for complex and large technology environments. This includes 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 the set guidelines without jeopardizing business objectives.

Required Qualifications:

• 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.
  • Microsoft Active Directory and Identity Federation (MS Active Directory Federation, Radiant Logic, Key Cloak, and Ping Identity)
  • Single Sign On (SSO) using modern standards (such as SAML, OAuth, and OpenID)
  • Federal Enterprise ICAM
  • Implementation of federal Zero Trust.
  • Defining and implementing metadata in the form of data and user/resource object (i.e. user, device, application, and service account) tagging and labeling
  • Enterprise Public Key Infrastructure (such as Microsoft Active Directory Integrated Certificate Authorities) and the supporting multi-tier Certificate Authorities.
  • Storage Services (such as SAN, Software Defined Storage, Storage as a Service)
  • Networking Services with experience in two or more of the following; eBGP, MPLS, DMVPN, satellite, or performance optimization over high latency paths.
  • 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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.

Clearance:

• Active Top Secret with SCI eligibility clearance required, and the candidate must be willing to obtain a polygraph.