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Accenture is a leading global skilled services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
Location:
This position will be based in Australia. Candidate may be required to travel to different areas of Australia.
Responsibilities
Drive presales activities, including developing end-to-end technology solutions, ensuring alignment with customer requirements and industry best practices.
Achieve revenue targets by selling through the sales teams, and driving business development activities.
Translate between business problems and technology solutions.
Collaborate with client sales teams to engage with clients, understand business challenges, and propose tailored solutions.
Provide subject matter expertise across Application Services, Managed Infrastructure services, Cloud Migration, Data Analytics, Database Services, Cloud Optimisation and Security and Compliance.
Work with the client and internal team to identify future needs to align with product suite.
Provide specifications according to which the solution is defined, managed, and delivered.
Keep current with trends and technological innovations.
Develop long-term technology road maps for client solutions.
Conduct technical review of existing client solutions to determine future mapping to managed solutions.
Influence technology direction with solid analysis.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in information technology, computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Technical skills
Strong technology background that includes consulting and pre‑sales experience.
Experience in architecting or engineering with Public, Private and Hybrid cloud.
Experience in managing customer on‑premise infrastructure and applications.
Proficiency with cloud migration techniques; re‑host, re‑platform, refactor.
Experience in architecting and deployment of one or more of Oracle E‑Business Suite (EBS), PeopleSoft, JD Edwards, Azure Cloud, AWS Cloud, Infrastructure Managed Services and Hyperion.
Sound understanding of Database refactoring into PaaS based services like Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Azure Managed instances, or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database PaaS.
Sound understanding of BI, Data warehouse and ETL processes in public cloud deployments.
Deep understanding of RDBMS and NoSQL databases.
Articulate the journey towards microservices – Containers, Kubernetes or Service Fabric.
Deep understanding of network and security cloud native components in pure public cloud deployments.
Experience with cloud migration tools and methodologies.
Advanced knowledge of cloud computing, migration, disaster recovery, virtualization and managed services.
Functional skills
Ability to independently plan, prioritize and organize effectively.
Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks.
Ability to make decisions and solve problems while working under pressure.
Strong client service orientation and expert client engagement skills.
Express a passion for technology and keeping informed of market trends.
Ability to research and obtain new product and technical knowledge, with the ability to learn quickly.
Have the expertise and ability to interact with any level of an organization.
Ability to define and recommend solutions based on data analysis.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, including strong negotiation skills.
Confidence in making technical and business decisions.
Applicant can demonstrate a history of achieving sales targets (growth/whitespace).
Able to demonstrate and ability to rapidly scope and qualify potential opportunities.
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