Sales Excellence – COE – Avanade Application Architecture Manager

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Title: Sales Excellence - CoE - Avanade Application Architecture Manager

Role (Job Profile): Sales Effectiveness Manager

Management Level: Manager (L7)

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. Sales Excellence at Accenture empowers our people to compete, win and grow. We develop everything they need to grow their client portfolios, optimize their deals and enable their sales talent, all driven by sales intelligence.

You Are

A self-driven person who enjoys variety and a fast pace. 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

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.

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.
  
  

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.
  
  

Qualifications

Must-Have:

• A Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• A minimum of 10 or more years of experience doing similar work in incident management, release management, security management, enhancements, and testing.
• Excellent English language fluency (oral and written)
• Highly proficient in learning and applying processes
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel
• Experience managing tools similar to "manage my sales" and be familiar with the software development lifecycle
• Experience teaming and collaborating virtually with diverse individuals
• Team management experience as may supervise/be assigned as People Lead for a small team with oversight from a manager
• Flexibility with work hours to support other time zones, depending on assigned area, and to support shifting business needs
  
  

Good To Have

• Business Management education
• People Management experience
• Familiarity with Accenture sales processes and tools