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TS&A Agile Practitioner Analyst
Kuala Lumpur
Job No. r00193256
Full-time
Job Description
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 394,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
Why Technology Strategy & Consulting?
The Technology strategy business within Global Network invents the future for clients by providing them with the right guidance, design thinking and innovative solutions for shaping their future through relevant technology enabled strategies.
As technology rapidly evolves, it’s more important than ever to have an innovation advisor who can create a new vision or put one into place to solve the client’s toughest business problems.
Specialize in technology strategy to transform the world's leading organizations by building innovative business solutions at intersection of business and technology as their trusted advisor by:
Helping Clients: Rethinking IT and Digital ecosystems and innovating to help clients keep pace with fast-changing, customer-driven environments.
Enhancing your Skillset: Building expertise and innovating with leading-edge technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud.
Transforming Businesses: Developing customized, next-generation products and services that help clients shift to new business models designed for today's connected landscape of disruptive technologies.
Principal Duties And Responsibilities:
Working closely with our clients, strategy professionals envisage, shape and formulate strategies that can help enhance business performance. They develop specialized expertise—strategic, industry, functional, technical—in a diverse project environment that offers multiple opportunities for career growth.
The opportunities to make a difference within exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing business landscape.
Here are just a few of your day-to-day responsibilities.
Identifying, assessing and solving complex business problems for area of responsibility, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
Managing large and complex programs and projects including Complex deal structures, Mobilization and governance of major change programs from inception to maintenance and leveraging new technologies and methodologies to drive business value.
Designing new business processes based on customer requirements and conduct user review sessions and run stakeholder agreement meetings applying thought leadership in leading the transformation.
Help clients design, architect and scale their journey to new technology-driven growth at the intersection of business and technology.
Help clients modernize their IT landscape and processes to adapt to latest technology trends.
Helping solve key business problems and challenges by enabling an architecture transformation, painting a picture of, and charting a journey from the current state to a “to-be” enterprise environment.
Implementing programs/interventions that prepare the organization for implementation of new business processes.
Assisting our clients to build the required capabilities for growth and innovation to sustain high performance.
Managing multi-disciplinary teams to shape, sell, communicate and implement programs.
Developing our offerings and assets.
Mentoring and developing our people.
Qualifications
Qualifications:
Analyst Level:
Bachelor’s degree
Any Agile certifications (SAFe / PMI / ICAgile / Scrum Alliance / Scrum.Org)
Minimum 3 years of practical experience advising, scoping, and delivering agile transformative services
Minimum 1-2 year of experience leading or managing small teams
Consultant Level:
Bachelor’s degree
MBA Degree from Tier-1 College (Preferable)
Any Project Management or Agile certifications (SAFe / PMI / ICAgile / Scrum Alliance / Scrum.Org)
6-8 years large scale consulting experience and managing teams in a consulting environment or at high tech companies by executing against a roadmap
Experience:
Operating model: Deep understanding of impact on IT Operating Model to enable agile, devOps, continuous integration & delivery practices. Experience in leading modernization of legacy landscapes by defining target state processes, automation tools for agile and integrated delivery.
Agile: Agile Maturity assessment, Hands-on experience leading enterprise-wide Agile transformations, experience with one or more Agile development methodologies (i.e. Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean, etc.), Expert knowledge of the business implications of an Agile Transformation Familiarity with large-scale agile frameworks like Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), SAP activate, Nexus, etc.
DevOps: DevOps Maturity assessment, defining a DevOps roadmap in conjunction with a continuous improvement framework, Leading proof of concept and/or pilot implementations and defining the plan to scale implementations across multiple technology domains, Experience in two or more DevOps tools.
Innovation: Experience in conducting Design Thinking Workshops and Proof of Concept walkthroughs.
The Analyst or Consultant should have practical industry expertise. The areas of Financial Services, Retail, consumer goods, Telecommunications, Life Sciences, Transportation, Hospitality, Automotive/Industrial, Mining and Resources are of interest but experience in equivalent domains is also welcomed. Consultants should understand the key technology trends in their domain and the related business implications.
Key Competencies and Skills:
Educate various roles and levels of people on Agile principles.
Suggest tools for implementing the process and engineering practices.
Provide training sessions and teach skills that lead towards organization-wide adoption of Agile methodologies.
Guiding teams into Agile methodology.
Coach small Agile team simultaneously with in-depth guidance on the roles, rituals, and artifacts of Agile teams and organization units (Analyst).
Coach 2-4 Agile teams simultaneously with in-depth guidance on the roles, rituals, and artifacts of Agile teams and organization units (Consultant).
Providing team members with feedback and means of improvement and answering questions.
Provide hands-on support to all employees at times, collaborating with people across widely varying levels and roles including Product Owners, Dev-ops teams, development teams.
Work with stakeholders to drive improvements in agile maturity while demonstrating quantifiable progress towards achieving higher performing teams and improved business outcomes.
The Agile Practitioner Consultant is responsible for designing a plan for the adoption of Agile (Domain-wide / enterprise-wide).
Foster teams and cultures practicing Agile, to sustaining Agile methodologies and continually offering strategies for improvement.
Use techniques that increase collaboration, predictability, transparency.
Working Knowledge on DevSecOps and Automation processes and tools.
Promote a culture of experimentation and innovation. Strong desire to work in technology-driven business transformation.
The ability to develop technology solutions and value adding propositions and take these to market.
Ability to drive C-suite/senior leadership level discussions.
Strong knowledge of technology trends across IT and digital and how they can be applied to companies to address real world problems and opportunities.
Deep experience within one or more of the Financial Services, Retail, consumer goods, Telecommunications, Life Sciences, Transportation, Hospitality, Automotive/Industrial, Mining and Resources industries.
Comfort conveying both high-level and detailed information, adjusting the way ideas are presented to better address varying social styles and audiences.
Leading proof of concept and/or pilot implementations and defining the plan to scale implementations across multiple technology domains.
Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills - ability to convey technology and business value propositions to senior stakeholders.
Team oriented and collaborative working style, both with clients and those within the organization.
Capacity to develop high impact thought leadership that articulates a forward-thinking view of the market.
Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships.
Proven track record in working creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment with effective consulting skills.
Proven track record to quickly understand the key value drivers of a business, how they impact the scope and approach of the engagement.
Demonstrated ability to develop younger talent and build a high performing team.
Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements
