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Data Strategy Lead - Big Data, Cloud, Analytics
Seattle, WA

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Are you ready to step up to the New and take your technology expertise to the next level?

Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements, in conjunction with the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value, provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.

People in our Client Delivery & Operations career track drive delivery and capability excellence through the design, development and/ or delivery of a solution, service, capability or offering. They grow into delivery-focused roles, and can progress within their current role, laterally or upward. We partner with our clients to help transform their data into an 'Appreciating Business Asset.'

As part of our Data Business Group, you will lead technology innovation for our clients through robust delivery of world-class solutions. You will build better software better! There will never be a typical day and that's why people love it here. The opportunities to make a difference within exciting client initiatives are unlimited in the ever-changing technology landscape. You will be part of a highly collaborative and growing network of technology and data experts, who are taking on today's biggest, most complex business challenges using the latest data and analytics technologies. We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. Come grow your career in Technology at Accenture!

Key Responsibilities

* Oversee data strategy project teams with resources specializing in business analysis, technology architecture, data management, and information governance
* Work with client leadership to identify and set their objectives of the data strategy engagement, align on the scope and approach for meeting these objectives, and lead the execution of the engagement to meet these objectives
* Own the business relationship with client executives and key stakeholders during the engagement to ensure alignment and satisfaction with the project team
* Work with the Business and IT stakeholders to understand their vision and challenges
* Understand and document current state pain points including limitations caused by existing data assets, operating model, or technology stack
* Identify and detail business 'use cases', or ways that stakeholders would like to drive business value (e.g. increase revenue, decrease expenses, increase efficiency) through data and analytics
* Work with technical resources to aggregate use cases into business consumption patterns detailing the data and technology designs that would support the execution of multiple use cases
* Ensure alignment between the client's business needs of the future state with the architecture, operating model and governance recommendations delivered by the project team
* Synthesize the business desires of the future state with the supporting data and technology recommendations into a vision of the future state that client executives, department heads, business and technical resources can all understand and align around
* Lead the development of an execution roadmap that details a strategic journey from the current state to realization of the future state vision with incremental release of technical and operational features and business value
* Lead the analysis of a business case for execution against the strategy, including the collection of business case inputs (costs, value drivers) as well as the calculation of return on investment
* Present data strategy to clients, gain buy in, and grow strategic relationships
* Be a business data strategy subject matter expert and principle data evangelist across planning efforts that involve the realization of business value
* Help building a team by mentoring junior practitioners as they build complex strategy and solutions
* Provide specialized expertise, cross-industry perspective, and thought leadership in the business value / business case of Big Data, Cloud, EIM and other Next Generation technology offerings
* Provide pre-sales support across clients

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