Comms, Media and Technology | Software & Platforms | Technology Delivery

Consultant - Career Level 9

London

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge. 

 

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As a Technology Delivery Consultant in our Software & Platforms team, you will help clients deliver software products, digital platforms and cloud services.

You will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, maintain delivery plans and governance, and translate business needs into engineering outcomes.

What you will do

• Support delivery from discovery and planning through build, test, release and operational readiness.
• Maintain plans, milestones, actions, risks, issues and dependencies, escalating blockers promptly.
• Coordinate product, engineering, architecture, design, quality, security and operations teams.
• Support Agile ceremonies, backlog management, release planning, reporting and governance.
• Track delivery against scope, quality, schedule and budget.
• Ensure security, resilience, scalability, accessibility and performance are built into delivery plans.
• Use AI tools for research, analysis, documentation and reporting in line with privacy, security and responsible AI requirements.
  

What we are looking for

• Experience in project, programme, product or technology delivery.
• Strong planning, communication, organisation and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of Agile, Waterfall or hybrid delivery and the software development lifecycle.
• Confidence working with client stakeholders and technical teams.
• Awareness of DevOps, CI/CD, automated testing, cloud platforms and service management.
• Interest in software, digital platforms, AI and emerging technology.

Set yourself apart

• Experience in software product, SaaS, platform modernisation or cloud transformation delivery.
• Experience with Jira or similar delivery tools.
• Understanding of product operating models, platform ecosystems, APIs or data services.
• Experience working with distributed teams and external clients.

About the opportunity

You will work with diverse teams to solve complex client challenges, develop your skills and deliver high-quality outcomes. Requirements may vary by engagement.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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