Sales Excellence CoE Application Architecture Associate Manager

Job Description

About Accenture: At Accenture, we believe your career is about what you want to be and who you want to be. It's about bringing your skills, your curiosity and your best true self to your work. Here, you'll match your ingenuity with the latest technology to do incredible things. Together, we can create positive, long-lasting change. We Are: Sales Excellence at Accenture. We empower our people to compete, win and grow. We develop everything they need to build and mature their client portfolios, optimize their deals and enable their sales talent, all driven by sales intelligence. You Are: A confident, self-motivated person who enjoys variety and a fast pace. You thrive in a fast moving, dynamic environment where you collaborate with your global colleagues to help deliver key services to your stakeholders. You enjoy building tools that solve real-life business problems and improve the user experience. You find satisfaction in applying a proven approach to deliver high quality results. The Work: The Sales Excellence - Center of Excellence Application Architecture team provides functional architecture support for our sales and pricing tools, ensuring their stability, alignment, and performance. As a member of the Application Architecture team, you will be part of the Center of Excellence (CoE). You will help design, prioritize and deliver sales and pricing applications that enable more than 50,000 users across Accenture. You'll ensure that our tools continue to address evolving business needs for continued sales success. The role requires a high level of attention to detail, process orientation, and communication skills. You will Be a functional architect supporting Accenture's sales and pricing tools Understand requirements and provide input to the design of process and tool changes. Build and test application updates. Apply your knowledge of the software development life cycle to help execute a project from start to finish. Respond promptly to critical events and follow through to ensure they are resolved (incident management). Manage user access to tools (security provisioning). Understand how the Application Architecture team supports the delivery of Sales Excellence service offerings. Qualification Here’s what you need: Undergraduate degree Typically have a minimum 4-5+ years of relevant experience English language fluency (oral and written) Proficient in Excel and familiar with formulas and data manipulation Detail-oriented and process-driven, able to follow the established procedures and protocols Independent and team-oriented, able to work autonomously and collaboratively Basic knowledge of sales and pricing data and tools and how they are used in the business Excellent communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills, able to interact with various stakeholders and teams Ability to understand the high-level requirements and expectations of the different teams and applications Confident in engaging with senior leadership within the scope of responsibility Responsible for an area of medium size and complexity Must be flexible with work hours according to business needs (e.g., when interaction/conference calls with team members in other time zones is required, release cutover weekends, when a critical issue requires immediate resolution). Extra credit if you have: Business Management education desirable Experience with Salesforce Understanding of sales processes and tools (e.g., Manage mySales) preferred You May Also Need: A home office or work area that is suitable for productive remote work, per local guidelines. This includes a safe, ergonomic workspace and a high-speed internet connection that is stable and secure.