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 I Areas of Work: Enterprise Strategy & Architecture | Level: Manager | Location: Bangalore/Gurugram/Mumbai/Hyderabad/Pune | Years of Exp: 10 to 15 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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Your experience counts!

Master’s or bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience.

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 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

Industry Experience

• 10+ years of experience in banking (retail, corporate, wealth, investment)/insurance (Life/P&C)/capital markets industry in the strategy and consulting space.
• Proven track record of delivering modernization (digital, core banking, operating model, or regulatory) initiatives
• Exposure to global or multi-county modernization programs preferred
• Deep understanding of banking/insurance/capital markets products, processes, and regulatory landscape and industry standards
• Experience in any of the frameworks/industry standards (e.g., TOGAF, BIAN, Zachman, ISO 20022, SWIFT, Open Banking, etc.).

Leadership Competencies

• Executive presence with ability to influence C-suite stakeholders.
• Strong consulting acumen, stakeholder management, and business development capability.
• Ability to balance long-term architectural vision with short-term execution realities.
• Vendor and technology neutral mindset focused on business outcomes.

What’s in the for you?

• An opportunity to work on transformative projects with key G2000 clients
• Potential to Co-create with leaders in strategy, industry experts, enterprise function practitioners and, business intelligence professionals to shape and recommend innovative solutions that leverage emerging technologies.
• Ability to embed responsible business into everything—from how you service your clients to how you operate as a responsible professional.
• Personalized training modules to develop your strategy & consulting acumen to grow your skills, industry knowledge and capabilities
• Opportunity to thrive in a culture that is committed to accelerate equality for all. Engage in boundaryless collaboration across the entire organization.

About Accenture:

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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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