Capital Markets Management Consultant – Modern Engineering / Cloud

Job Role: Capital Markets Management Consultant – Modern Engineering / Cloud

Location: London

Mobility: Up to 100%

Career Level: Consultant

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 team:

Accenture’s UK Capital Markets business has set Cloud & Modern Engineering as a key priority offering in 2021, in recognition of the significant industry trend and growing market in supporting clients with their journey to the Cloud.

The Cloud revolution is changing everything. It’s everywhere – transforming how we work and play. Join Accenture and help transform leading organisations and communities around the world move to the Cloud. Accenture’s Capital Markets practice delivers large scale cloud migration programmes to major global investment banks, corporate banks, wealth managers and other financial service providers. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate with the ecosystem, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.

Accenture’s Cloud practice brings together a global network of highly skilled Cloud practitioners and Modern Engineers. When combined with Accenture’s broader Strategy and Consulting practice, we are able to bring together the unique ability to drive end to end business change through the application of Cloud computing and migration from legacy mainframe infrastructure.

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways. You’ll join our project teams and lead delivery solving the most complex and exciting client challenges today.

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job. 

In our team you will learn:

• Cloud skills and knowledge, on the job experience, formal training and certifications
• Capital Markets Industry insight, developing points of views and though leadership
• Modern Engineering technical skills

In this role you will:

• Deliver client change and transformation through implementation of Cloud business, architecture and engineering projects
• Build trusted relationships with client and Accenture teams in a dynamic and challenging environment
• Support building out Accenture’s Cloud & Modern Engineering Thought Leadership and practice
• Lead teams and support development of Accenture’s Capital Markets practice through people development and mentoring of more junior team members
• Develop and identify sales opportunities that are aligned with client agendas, creating value-driven sales propositions

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Cloud & Modern Engineering
• DevSecOps & Agile ways of working
• Capital Markets private and public cloud experience
• Complex application stacks in a regulated industry
• Cloud architecture, infrastructure & applications
• Data governance, analysis and transformation
• Designing data led solutions
• Value realization through cloud and engineering transformation

Set yourself apart:

• Ability to successfully build relationships with clients and stakeholders
• Mastery of problem solving and solutioning
• Strong Academic Background, to Bachelors’ degree level or higher, or equivalent experience
• Experience in consulting around Cloud and Modern Engineering
  • One or more of AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (certifications preferred, but experience essential)
  • Modern application architecture patterns e.g. containers, microservices, DevSecOps, security, Big Data technologies
• Experience in the Investment Banking industry, including an understanding of Front, Middle and Back office processes and a high-level understanding of the trade lifecycle
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a team environment with excellent client relationship/interpersonal skill, strong written and verbal communication skills and a strong professional presence. This should include excellent written (structured documents, presentations) and verbal communication skills (facilitation of meetings, presentation of materials)
• Well-developed analytical skills including ability to work with poorly defined problems, provide clarity to complex issues or situations and synthesise large amounts of information and highlight salient points

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a highly competitive salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

About Accenture

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. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries — powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 509,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Closing Date for Applications 31/08/2021

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.