Technical Solution Architect - Procurement​/Supply Chain

Acenture is a leading global professional 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.

• Support our Sales Team as Technical Solution Architect in pre-sales / RFP processes involving multiple technologies.
• Manage/Coordinate involved technology teams in on- and offshore locations across all aspects of technology relevant to the opportunity.
• Develop technical solution design and work with assigned technical architects and cost architects to create corresponding cost estimates.
• Present and discuss solutions with client executives.
• Present technology solution to internal executive approvers.
• Align technology solution components to business standards (including, but not limited to, Syn Ops, third party platforms and client technology).
• Assess the business impact/return on investment for the more complex components of the technology solution.
• Facilitate client workshops, document business requirements and develop them into a proposed solution design.
• Act as customers’ key contact on the proposed technology solution.
• Incorporate GenAI and agentic automation components into solution designs, working with AI specialists to assess feasibility and tool readiness.
• Advise clients on the AI maturity roadmap for their procurement and supply chain functions.
• Work closely with other Accenture technology teams such as Insights and Intelligence, Automation and Technology Consulting to create a holistic technology approach and cost estimate that captures all details, dependencies and assumptions of the technology landscape.
• Transition the solution to the Transition team for implementation upon contract signature.
• Establish oneself as a leader in cross-technology issues and risk mitigation.
• Establish relationships among key Sales and Solutioning, Technical Factory, Product Management, BPS Operations Capability/Offering, Transition and Delivery teams and other groups (as applicable).
• Work with Product Management and Initiative Leads to support new technology assets and capabilities.
• The role may be expected to execute some of these responsibilities:
  Mentoring, Staffing, Budgeting and Capacity Management.
• Travel up to 25%.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading and / or delivering technology-driven transformations in Procurement or Supply Chain process environments.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with sales solutioning including pre-sales / RFP bid response activities.

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Business function process knowledge in one of the following three areas:
  1) Procurement (Sourcing, Contracting, Buying),
  2) Supply Chain Operations (Design, Plan, Make, Fulfill or Service), or
  3) Manufacturing.
• Sales solutioning including technical architecture design, effort and cost estimation, and executive-level proposal delivery.
• Familiarity with outsourcing Operations technology solutions and functions.
• Experience evaluating, solutioning AI or agentic technology.
• Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks.
• Awareness of responsible AI and AI governance considerations.
• Experience working with Accenture Operations and…