Mainframe Innovation and Digital Core FS Offering Lead & Practitioner

About the role

The Mainframe Innovation and Digital Core Financial Services Offering Lead & Practitioner is accountable for shaping, defining, and scaling Accenture’s global mainframe-led innovation and modernization offerings as a core pillar of clients' Digital Core transformation journeys.

This is a strategic leadership role part of a federated community of capability and tower leads across mainframe modernization, hybrid cloud integration, automation, AI-enabled operations, and technical debt reduction.

Responsibilities

• Work with practice lead leadership to set the global vision, roadmap, and investment priorities for the offerings that will drive the most revenue: examples include (Mainframe Modernization, AI, Fin Ops and Tech Debt).
• Align the offering to Accenture growth platforms and priority client demand; defining the value proposition, target clients (with market leads), priority industries and competitive differentiation – established overall desirability, feasibility, and viability.
• Work with Delivery Leaders to ensure delivery readiness and capabilities are included based on business case.
• Commercialization & Go-to-Market
• Business liaison to lock down commercialization including packaging, pricing, and sales motions with proper parts of the firm.
• Partner with Sales, Industry Groups, and Geographies to generate pipeline and revenue.
• Act as executive sponsor and offering SME for priority pursuits and flagship clients.
• Federated Leadership & Governance
• Hire, lead and coordinate Tower Offering Leads across capability domains.
• Establish governance, operating cadence, and decision rights.
• Ensure integrated, end-to-end solutions and consistent market messaging.
• Alliance & Ecosystem Leadership
• Serve as Accenture’s global counterpart to IBM offering leadership.
• Shape joint strategy, innovation agenda, and co-investment priorities.
• Influence product roadmaps and accelerate joint solution development.
• Asset Development & Enablement
• Oversee industrialization of reusable assets, accelerators, and delivery models.
• Ensure offerings are delivery-ready and scalable globally with Delivery and BG Lead.
• Drive enablement across sales, solutioning, and delivery communities.
• Strategic Vision
• Contribute to the overall practice strategy and act as a GTM leader for priority AI opportunities, shaping the evolution of offerings in line with market demand and technology trends.

Requirements

• Minimum 6 years of consulting experience (preferably strategy consulting) to communicate at a c-level, communicate across a highly matrixed organization, align multiple stakeholder groups, and drive outcomes.
• Minimum 6 years of experience with in-place or cloud Mainframe Modernization and integration with the Hybrid Cloud and use of Linux One + Integration with Public Cloud platforms, covering both functional and technical aspects with hands on experience in the Modern Mainframe versions (16 and 17).
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience.)

Professional Skills Requirement

• Exceptional executive presence, with outstanding communication and presentation skills, and the ability to act as an influential industry evangelist.
• Ability to structure and lead story-driven narratives for offerings across industry specializations and technology stacks.
• Proven track record of leading large-scale business transformation initiatives driven by technology.
• Knowledge of cloud business models, and value realization across public, private, hybrid, and sovereign cloud environments.