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Technology Advisory - IT Strategy and Architecture - Managers/Associate Partners, London
Client:
Wavestone
Location:
London, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
10842a9c5159
Job Views:
3
Posted:
30.03.2025
Expiry Date:
14.05.2025
Job Description:
Company Description
Wavestone is a leading global transformation consulting firm known for navigating critical challenges and driving sustainable growth. We aim to deliver lasting change that positively impacts customers, communities, and society. Our journey is defined by a true team spirit, where support, encouragement, and motivation are the keystones of our collaborative environment.
Wavestone UK now boasts a team of 300 employees, with ambitions to rapidly grow in the coming years. Our services span business and digital transformation, cybersecurity, operational improvement, risk advisory, and IT advisory.
Join us for a rewarding career in management consulting, offering competitive compensation, continuous learning, and ample opportunities for professional growth.
Job Description
Becoming part of the UK team in our Technology Advisory capability will present new opportunities for you to make a positive impact as we embark on securing major international accounts in our top 20 clients.
This will mean working with our FTSE100 clients and beyond on a wide range of advisory projects, bringing deep business and technology expertise to help address opportunities and challenges across their organisations.
We are looking for talented and experienced Architecture Management Consultants across various levels of seniority to join our team leading impactful engagements encompassing (but not limited to):
* Technology Strategy & Architecture: Analysing client and customer needs and developing technology roadmaps and business cases that support movement from an as-is to to-be state to meet defined business outcomes for our clients.
* Technology Driven Transformation: Working as a key technical lead, or as a workstream owner, on complex technology transformations.
* Enterprise Architecture Augmentation: Acting as part of our clients’ architecture teams to provide added capacity or expertise, and/or to mature their own architecture functions.
* Technology Lifecycle Management: Working on specific challenges around upgrade or risk management of our clients.
As a senior leader in architecture, your key responsibilities will cover client delivery, business development, people development, and key contribution to our thought leadership:
* Client engagement lead: Managing strategy and architecture engagements with our clients, responsible for the day to day running of the engagements, including developing strategic recommendations and guidance.
* Business development: Be a subject matter lead, and lead and support sales activity to include full lifecycle from pre-sales support, identification of cyber opportunities & scope the delivery phase of engagements.
* Thought leadership & proposition ownership: Being a key voice in our architecture community and externally, developing architecture related propositions, approaches to common client challenges, sharing knowledge, and creating thought leadership and marketing materials that support sales efforts.
* People development: Act as an example and go-to for more junior members of the team, by sharing knowledge, mentoring, and coaching team members.
* Maintain expertise: Stay current with the market, most especially in different technologies, platforms, and solutions that are relevant to client challenges or needs.
While we work across different sectors, we are particularly interested in speaking to people with a background in Financial Services (especially Insurance and Wealth & Asset Management), Life Sciences, Energy & Utilities, and Manufacturing.
Qualifications
* Significant consulting experience, client-facing stakeholder management skills, or equivalent tenure in relevant industries.
* Demonstratable proficiency in technology strategy and architecture having been responsible for strategic technology roadmaps and/or enterprise architecture.
* Technical understanding and experience of working on one or multiple Architecture domain areas.
* Familiarity with one or more common enterprise application stacks.
* Familiarity with one or more of the hyperscale cloud platforms.
* Knowledge of emerging efficiency driving technologies.
* Ability to manage complex programmes and projects.
* Proven aptitude in business development.
Your Key Abilities:
* Exceptional interpersonal skills spanning organizational levels.
* Leadership in team management, junior staff development, and coaching.
* Strategic technology leadership.
* Crafting impactful presentations and high-quality reports.
Desirable Qualifications
* Architecture – TOGAF, BCS
* Platforms – Any certifications in relation to SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce
* Cloud – Any certification across the common cloud providers.
* Change Delivery – Agile PM, Scaled Agile, SCRUM Master, APM, PMP, Prince
* Service Management - ITIL v 3 or 4 focus
Additional Information
Our commitment: Wavestone values and Positive Way
Competitive salary and bonus scheme.
25 days annual leave.
Travel and Location: Employees are not required to work in a Wavestone office on a full-time basis but are required to commute to the office/client site, whenever necessary.
Note: Mandatory 2-3 days per week in Wavestone office/client site during probation.
Diversity and Inclusion: At Wavestone, we celebrate diversity and inclusion.
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