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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 750,000 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. 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 Song. These capabilities, 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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We Are:
Our Utility Industry, Transmission & Distribution Practice is powering the progress to a safe, connected, and sustainable planet. Every day, we work with the largest electric, gas, and water utilities to deliver innovative solutions and help them become more efficient, reliable, environmentally friendly and safer places to work. We co-create the future with our clients at Accenture Innovation Hubs around the world and work alongside our clients to bring the future to life in the core of our client’s operations. We are the marketplace leader in modernizing the Transmission and Distribution network, making it more resilient, secure and flexible to include new distributed energy resources. Our utility clients are looking for bold solutions in the era of rapidly changing technology, policy and workforce innovations. Are you the leader who wants to reinvent the Utilities’ Transmission and Distribution and empower our clients to create a clean, sustainable and connected world? Join a team of industry practitioners with global footprint and local camaraderie. Visit our site to learn more about Accenture Strategy & Consulting Utilities Practice.
You Are: A skilled utility industry practitioner with the know how to help clients meet the challenges of digitization. You have the experience, creativity and analytical power to design, solution, and implement the next generation of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) solutions: your bread and butter are the utility processes and technologies underlying foundational AMI capabilities (e.g., meter/network deployment, meter-to-cash, outage integration, web presentment), AMI operations, and AMI analytics. You are not afraid to imagine next generation AMI solutions powered by artificial intelligence, automation, layered intelligence, and edge computing. In fact, every day you are looking for opportunities to challenge the status quo and you are not satisfied with step change. You are a connecter, inspiring teams as you weave together complex solutions and share your vision and new ways of thinking. You have a proven track record of assembling and collaborating with diverse, high-octane teams that harness people’s strength and deliver radical insight. You understand that co-location with clients and teams is critical to innovation, and you are ready to partner at client sites.
The Work:
• Act as a lead Solution Architect to create the integrated solution architecture for end-to-end AMI solutions, translating between functional and technical.
• Work with vendor and client architecture teams to define solution options, drive consensus across parties, and manage the key business decision making process.
• Understand client challenges and articulate the value of transformation in terms of business outcomes
• Bring thought leadership on the smart metering issues Utilities face today and, in the future
• Constantly learn and bring new technologies and innovative advanced metering solutions to our clients
• Be a role model and a coach for the next generation of Accenture analysts and consultants
• Champion people on your team to succeed professionally and personally
• Foster trusted advisor relationships with clients from strategy to technology; from the C-Suite to the front line; for business and IT
• Integrate business data to discover new insight and enable evidence-based business decisions
• Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.
Basic Qualifications
• Minimum 7 years of experience in utilities (gas and electric)
• Minimum 7 years of experience in Solution Architecture
• Minimum 7 years of project implementation experience in AMI processes and technologies; experience with interlocking business and IT requirements and inputs into a cohesive AMI solution
• Minimum 7 years of project implementation experience working with major AMI product vendors (MDM, HE, network / meters, etc.) including but not limited to: Itron, Landis+Gyr, Aclara, Sensus, Siemens, Oracle, and SAP
• Bachelor’s degree
Professional Skill Requirements
• Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Desire to work in an information systems environment
• Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
Our Commitment to You:
Your entrepreneurial spirit and vision will be rewarded, and your success will fuel opportunities for career advancement. You’ll make a difference for some pretty impressive clients. Accenture serves many of the Fortune Global 100 on high-profile projects. Opportunities to learn daily through training, assignments, and collaborating with experts across the company. Access to leading-edge technology.
Along with a competitive salary, Accenture offers a comprehensive package including generous paid time off, an employee healthcare plan and a competitive 401K program.
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.
Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $93,400 to $258,500
Colorado $93,400 to $223,300
District of Columbia $99,500 to $237,800
New York $86,500 to $258,500
Maryland $86,500 to $206,800
Washington $99,500 to $237,800
What We Believe
We have an unwavering commitment to diversity with the aim that every one of our people has a full sense of belonging within our organization. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture has the responsibility to create and sustain an inclusive environment.
Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities. Read more here
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Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion or sexual orientation.
All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.
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Requesting An Accommodation
Accenture is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. If you are hired by Accenture and require accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you will be asked to participate in our reasonable accommodation process. Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired.
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Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
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