Retail Stores Solutions Architect

Job description

Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture, and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.

People in our Client & Market career track drive profitable growth by developing market-relevant insights to increase market share or create new markets. They progress through required promotion into market-facing roles that have a direct impact on sales.

Business and Systems Integration professionals analyze, design and/or develop best practice business changes through technology solutions.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Solution Architect will play a critical role in spearheading the sales and delivery of a specific technology solution area. The Solution Architect possesses vast experience in a professional services and solution selling environment and has a background that illustrates extensive capabilities in solution delivery particularly around their solution area. The applicant will possess the skills to provide strategic leadership for the specific solution, offering both conceptual and practical solutions to clients.

Additional Key Responsibilities:

· Provide subject matter expertise to identify and recommend workable solutions to clients
· Provide program and project management leadership on relevant client engagements
· Work with the Project Manager to develop the overall implementation solution plan and serve as a lead, as required, overseeing aspects of the project life cycle, from the initial kickoff through the requirements analysis, design and implementation phases for projects within solution area
· Accountable for broader quality of delivery across relevant Solution Platform projects through appropriate risk mitigation strategies
· Create and distribute reusable Solution Platform sales and delivery content to ensure scalability of solution area and group
· Provide point of view on Solution Platform and vendor market place Support the business development life cycle by serving as a solution SME and assisting with the identification and qualification of business development opportunities
· Help lead and contribute to the estimation effort for relevant proposals and/or projects
· Help support vendor relationship for Solution Platform sales and delivery
· Evangelizes Accenture as a leader in Solution Platform through speaking opportunities, publications, conference participation, etc.
· Participates in career development processes and provides career development mentorship / guidance to staff
It is our intention for our people to work where they live. However, in the context of our profession and serving our clients there may be times when you will need to travel.

Desired profile

Basic Qualifications:

·  Minimum 5 years designing, architecting, and integrating retail store systems (Point-of-Sale, Signage, Peripherals, etc.).
·  Minimum 5 years working on large, complex retail projects/programs.
·  Minimum 5 years in client facing role
·  Ability to meet minimum travel requirements - up to 80% (Monday - Thursday)
·  Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree

Preferred Qualifications:

·  Strong understanding of Software Delivery Lifecycle, Architectures, and Middleware technologies
·  5 years working on packaged retail software/systems
·  Experience with Retalix, Oracle POS, or other packaged POS software preferred
·  Experience with retail Device and Peripheral integration and frameworks (OPOS, JPOS, UPOS)*
·  Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment
·  Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
·  Desire to work in an information systems environment

Professional Skill Requirements

·  Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
·  Excellent leadership and management skills

All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

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