About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Find out more about us at www.accenture.com.
What you’ll do
As a Solution Designer in Technology Architecture Practice at Accenture, you will be joining a team of passionate and experienced architects and designers. You will be responsible for designing application building blocks and IT solutions that address business needs with performance, resilience, and scalability. This role is ideal for someone who is passionate about architecture and is eager to grow into a Solution Architect role.
Key responsibilities
As a representative of Accenture, our Fortune-100 clients appreciate your desire to co-create fit-for-purpose solutions with their own IT specialists and designers, leveraging modern and emerging trends in the industry to add business value and improve IT operational maturity. Therefore, the high-level responsibilities of the solution designer include:
Collaborating with technical leads, product owners, and architects to co-create detailed design documentation that meet functional and non-functional requirements and fit within the client’s overall technology strategy
Collaborating with developers and testers to ensure solution designs understood and prepped for delivery, with a willingness to oversee and quality-assure code development as necessary
Working closely with IT security to enable privacy by design and ensure alignment with client security practices
Communicating design status, blockers, and opportunities to your lead
Development of proof-of-concept (POC) prototypes to validate solution approaches, prepare Point of Views to assess technical feasibility, and support architectural decision-making across application and integration layers
5+ years of experience as a Solution Designer or Full-Stack Developer, with a strong background in designing and developing business applications throughout the software development lifecycle using open-source technology stack
Experience in designing and developing applications using open-source technology stacks across Frontend, Backend, Database, and Integration layers.
Experience with some of modern engineering best practices: Domain-Driven Design (DDD), API-led, event-driven architecture, XaaS, containerization, databases, cloud-native & serverless technologies
Certification in cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) or architecture methodologies (TOGAF, Zachman or similar) though it’s not a requirement, would be an advantage.
Strong intention to learn new technologies, be passionate about staying at the forefront of modern solution design patterns, and actively follow industry trends and emerging practices
Strong effective communication skills with solid interpersonal and analytical decision-making
Ability to convey information to non-technical colleagues (product owners, IT management) in a concise and clear way
A logical approach to problem solving and complexity disaggregation, tenacity, and patience along with high attention to detail
You must also have the right to work in Australia
Benefits of working at Accenture:
Engaging and dynamic projects in digital application development, cloud modernization, and large-scale business transformation initiatives locally and globally
High-quality hardware and tools tailored to support your productivity and technical needs
Access to Accenture Technology Architecture knowledge base, internal training programs and Communities of Practice for collaboration with experts worldwide to support continuous learning
Structured career development program, including unique inhouse Master Technology Architecture certification program and possibility to obtain market certification
Long & short-term career break opportunities
18 weeks paid parental leave
Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™
Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.
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All our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You’ll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.
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Accenture 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 approximately 791,000 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 and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent 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.Visit us at www.accenture.com
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As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.
We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email [email protected] and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on +61 2 9005 5000.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years as a Solution Designer or Full-Stack Developer
- Experience designing and developing business applications across frontend, backend, database and integration layers using open-source stacks
- Experience with Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- Experience with API-led architecture
- Experience with event-driven architecture
- Experience with XaaS models
- Experience with containerization
- Experience with cloud-native and serverless technologies
- Certification in cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) or architecture methodologies (TOGAF, Zachman)
- Strong communication skills and ability to convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to develop proof-of-concept prototypes and support architectural decision-making
- Right to work in Australia
Accenture Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Accenture and has not been reviewed or approved by Accenture.
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Healthcare Strength — Pay is considered competitive when paired with robust insurance options and other perks that compare well with large consulting and IT services peers. Multiple national medical plan options plus dental and vision are positioned as a core strength of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout feature through a 401(k) dollar-for-dollar match up to a set percentage after eligibility. The package is reinforced by additional financial programs such as savings tools and related resources.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and caregiving supports are presented as a meaningful benefit differentiator through substantial paid parental leave and multiple caregiver-oriented programs. Backup care and fertility/adoption/surrogacy navigation and reimbursements add breadth to family support beyond leave alone.
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