Enterprise Transformation & Architecture Leader (Financial Services)
Join our Technology Strategy & Advisory practice within Accenture Strategy & Consulting. This role sits within the Global Network and focuses on Enterprise Architecture & Business Transformation for leading Financial Services clients.
As a senior leader, you will drive enterprise-wide transformation by integrating 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 & Advisory, Capability Network I Areas of Work: Enterprise Architecture & Business Transformation | Level: Sr Manager / Associate Director | Location: Bangalore/Gurugram/Mumbai/Hyderabad/Pune | Years of Exp: 15+
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.
The Practice- A Brief Sketch:
The Technology Strategy & Advisory 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
The Enterprise Transformation & Architecture Leader is accountable for defining future-state enterprise architecture, establishing transformation governance structures, and ensuring measurable value realization across large-scale Financial Services modernization programs.
This role operates at the intersection of strategy, architecture, and transformation execution—ensuring alignment between business priorities, technology investments, and realized outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy/ArchitectureDefine 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 transformation 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 and transformation strategy
Ensure data governance, risk management, and cybersecurity alignment.
Solution Execution and TransformationTranslate target architecture into multi‑year, phased transformation 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
Oversee large-scale Financial Services transformation programs
Value RealizationEstablish transformation governance and value realization frameworks.
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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Technical & Functional Expertise
Architecture & Technology Depth
Experience in any one of the Banking, Cap Markets and insurance platforms/suites (e.g., Temenos, Avaloq, Mambu, Finastra Suite, Guidewire Suite, Duck Creek, etc.).
Core Banking – Transact, Flexcube, Finacle, BaNCS, etc.
Payments – GPP, TPH, etc.
Insurance – Policy Center, Claim Center, Contact Manager, Agency Portal etc.
Capital Markets – Calypso, Avaloq, Murex, FIS Trading Suite etc.
Ability to align technology architecture with business outcomes and regulatory obligations.
Experience in defining current, target, and transition architectures.
Proven ability to incorporate sequencing, and prioritization approach when defining transformation roadmaps
Know-how of
Cloud architectures, APIs, microservices, data platforms, and integration patterns.
Enterprise integration patterns, data architecture, and predictive analytics.
Security and resilience requirements
AI, GenAI and Agentic AI uses cases
Transformation & Value Governance
Industry Experience
Leadership Competencies
What’s in the for you?
About Accenture:
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 569,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com
About Accenture Strategy & Consulting:
Accenture Strategy shapes our clients’ future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Our focus on issues such as digital disruption, redefining competitiveness, operating and business models as well as the workforce of the future helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world. Today, digital is changing the way organizations engage with their employees, business partners, customers and communities. This is our unique differentiator. To bring this global perspective to our clients, Accenture Strategy's services include those provided by our Capability Network – a distributed management consulting organization that provides management consulting and strategy expertise across the client lifecycle. Our Capability Network teams complement our in-country teams to deliver cutting-edge expertise and measurable value to clients all around the world. For more information visit https://www.accenture.com/us-en/Careers/capability-network
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