at Accenture in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
We Are:
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and , Interactive, Technology, and Operations services, all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 738,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
You Are:
Most software developers, engineers, and architects get to build software systems. Very few get to say with a straight face: “I’m reinventing banking.” Or hospitality, or logistics, or insurance. We’re combining technology, industry expertise, and entrepreneurial experience to massively disrupt our clients’ core businesses. We partner with our clients to propel them into the future and to help create better products and experiences for everyone. We’re doing this by leveraging the power of patterns (Anti-Corruption Layering, Strangler fig, Microservices, Event Sourcing, etc) and technologies (Kafka, Solace, Change Data Capture, Node.js, Go, Containerization, PaaS) to build cloud-native solutions for the enterprise based on modern event driven architectures. Our team is deeply hands-on, highly technical, and prides itself in being battle hardened, lead-from-the-front technology thought leaders. The ability to take complex ideas, synthesize them for common understanding, while maintaining a focus on details is a must for this role. In this role as a Core Systems Architect you will be focused on designing, architecting, and then building new systems of record & core processing platforms at the heart of industries. Where once was a system put in place in 1970 to run like clockwork every night during batch will now stand a newly decoupled and scalable application to bring functions like Ledger, Inventory, and Supply Forecast into the modern era. The systems you design won’t just be integrations between big SaaS but the kernel at the heart of multi-billion-dollar companies. We are in the midst of helping clients fundamentally rethink how to transform 20+ years old systems and services in investment and core banking, payments, retirement and wealth management into modern cloud native. The industry is at a crossroads and needs help from the outside in order to make most efficient use of capital, retain customers in the face of emerging competition, and compete as the market rapidly changes. This also means a fundamental change to architecture, engineering and delivery processes, and re-thinking once unshakeable assumptions. We are looking for industry veterans who have lived with the loose collection of functionalities bolted onto existing monoliths: hard to maintain and harder to enhance. If you want to be part of the next generation of core banking, we have a place for you.Preferred Background in 1 of the following Industries:
Retirement/Wealth and Financial Services
We are in the midst of helping clients fundamentally rethink how to transform 20+ years old systems and services in investment and core banking, payments, retirement and wealth management into modern cloud native. The industry is at a crossroads, and needs help from the outside in order to make most efficient use of capital, retain customers in the face of emerging competition, and compete as the market rapidly changes. This also means a fundamental change to architecture, engineering and delivery processes, and re-thinking once unshakeable assumptions.
We are looking for industry veterans who have lived with the loose collection of functionality bolted onto existing monoliths: hard to maintain and harder to enhance. If you want to be part of the next generation of core banking, we have a place for you.
Specific Experience:
+ Minimum 3+ years working as an architect in an industry leading banking, payments, or capital markets firm OR has been in a key technical architecture role in a demonstrably successful fintech product company.
+ Successful design and implementation of emerging technology to solve a key financial industry business or critical system architecture problem.
Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 25% to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.
What You’ll Need:
+ Experience creating and operating an engineering teams of 8-10 members.
+ Minimum 6+ years of hands-on experience building modern applications, or equivalent open source contribution (several projects as ongoing contributor).
+ Applications must be crafted using the listed preferred technologies/frameworks. Technologies like legacy C# or JEE would be outside of consideration.
+ Minimum 3+ years of experience in leading designing and building software systems. i.e planning out infrastructure, cloud platform components, network details etc.
+ Minimum 3+ years working with modern observability tools. Opensource exposure to OpenTelemetry/OpenObservability is a plus
+ Experience explaining complex technical concepts to an executive/non-technical audience. Example: If you can explain what event sourcing or the reactor pattern are to a layperson, you’ve got this.
+ Experience designing and leading engineering systems and DevOps, i.e managing the process of building software.
+ Deep knowledge of one or more industry areas (e.g. Hospitality, Banking, Aerospace, Retail, Supply Chain)
+ Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)
Bonus if you have:
+ Experience with more than one programming language (JavaScript, Go, Python, dotnet core preferred)
+ Hands on experience with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure; namely choosing platform components and assembling application and runtime architecture
+ Experience with serverless architecture.
+ Experience with microservices architectures and constituent technologies (Flask, gokit, Spring Cloud)
+ Experience with containerization and container platforms. (e.g. Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, K3S, Rancher)’
+ Experience with Event Driven Architectures and constituent technologies (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis) and patterns (Event Sourcing, etc)
+ Experience with distributed transactional data stores (CockroachDB, Spanner, ScyllaDB, Percona. MongoDB)
+ Active participation in Opensource projects.
Professional Skills:
+ Strong Critical Thinking, Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills
+ Excellent Communication and Interpersonal Skills. You will be expected to communicate business value for all technical solutions all the way to the C-Suite in some cases.
+ Initiative-taking is required. You will likely be given an objective, some constraints, and enough detail to get started. After that, we will expect you to solve problems without hand holding.
+ Demonstrated leadership, comradery, and teamwork in a multi-cultural professional setting
+ Curiosity and a desire to continuously learn
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York or Washington as set forth below.
We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.
Information on benefits is here. (https://www.accenture.com/us-en/careers/local/total-rewards)
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