Enterprise Strategy & Architecture Leader (Financial Services)

Join our Financial Services Technology Strategy & Architecture practice within Accenture Strategy & Consulting. This role sits within the Global Network and focuses on Strategy & Enterprise Architecture for leading Financial Services clients.

As a senior leader, you will drive enterprise-wide business strategy, architecture vision, execution governance, and measurable value realization. You will partner with C-suite stakeholders to translate strategic ambition into architecture-enabled delivery and sustained business outcomes.

Practice: Technology Strategy & Transformation, Capability Network IAreas of Work: Enterprise Strategy & Architecture | Level: Consultant / Analyst | Location: Bangalore/Gurugram/Mumbai/Hyderabad/Pune | Years of Exp: 3 to 10 years

Explore An Exciting Career at Accenture

Do you believe in creating an impact Are you a problem solver who enjoys working on transformative strategies for global clients Are you passionate about being part of an inclusive, diverse and collaborative culture

Then, this is the right place for you! Welcome to a host of exciting global opportunities in Accenture Technology Strategy & Advisory.

Our Practice- A Brief Sketch:

The Technology Strategy & Architecture Practice is a part of Accenture Strategy and focuses on the clients most strategic priorities. We help clients achieve growth and efficiency through innovative R&D transformation, aimed at redefining business models using agile methodologies.

We provide you with a great learning ground, deep-rooted in Business Strategy, where you will get an opportunity to advice and work with our key global clients, driving end-to-end transformative strategic value and business growth.

Role Summary

We are seeking a highly experienced Financial Services Architect / Strategy Leader to drive strategic initiatives across banking and financial services domains. The role will be responsible for shaping business and technology strategy, defining enterprise and domain architecture, and leading the design of future-state operating models and solution landscapes aligned with regulatory, operational, and customer objectives.

This role requires a strong combination of financial services domain expertise, strategic thinking, and hands-on architecture leadership to support complex programs spanning payments, core banking, channels, data, regulatory reporting, customer communication, and digital modernization.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy/Architecture

Define enterprise architecture vision aligned to business and growth strategy.
Identify capability gaps and opportunities for digitization, automation, and modernization.
Design future-state business capability models and target architecture.
Lead modernization of banking, capital markets and insurance platforms.
Design overall architecture for modernization initiatives (core banking, wealth payments, lending, digitization underwriting, claims etc.).
Define system interaction models across channels, middleware, core systems, and external ecosystems.
Provide recommendation for build versus buy and aid the client in product evaluation if the recommendation is purchase a solution
Establish architecture governance, principles, standards, and minimal viable guardrails.
Embed regulatory compliance within architecture with modernization strategy
Ensure data governance, risk management, and cybersecurity alignment.

Solution Execution

Translate target architecture into multi‑year, phased roadmap
Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Security teams to ensure secure‑by‑design architectures.
Define migration waves and sequencing to minimize business and operational risk.
Identify quick wins, foundational enablers, and long‑term modernization initiatives.
Establish clear transition architectures between current and target states.
Align roadmap with planning & funding cycles, regulatory milestones, business priorities & customer impact
Align business, product, and technology teams to enterprise vision.
Drive integration between finance, business, and IT delivery teams.
Maintain architectural coherence across programs and product portfolios.
Partner with CIO/CTO leadership to evolve technology operating models.
Manage and track initiative adoption across front, middle, and back-office functions to ensure sustained benefits realization

Value Realization

Lead change at pace within a regulatory framework through data-driven decision-making, disciplined risk management, and operational resilience
Ensure alignment between architecture decisions and value targets.
Define KPIs, baselines, and benchmarking mechanisms to track benefits realization.
Prioritize investments using financial impact and cost-benefit analysis.
Provide executive-level reporting on value delivery, risk, and strategic alignment across multiple workstreams and vendors

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