Technology Advisory - IT Strategy and Architecture - Managers/Associate Partners

Wavestone; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 100,000; Full time

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Company Description

Wavestone is a leading global transformation consulting firm known for navigating critical challenges and driving sustainable growth. We aim to deliver lasting change that positively impacts customers, communities, and society. Our journey is defined by a true team spirit, where support, encouragement, and motivation are the keystones of our collaborative environment.

Drawing on more than 5,500 employees across Europe, North America, and Asia, we seamlessly combine first-class sector expertise with a 360° transformation portfolio of high-value consulting services.

With our 360° portfolio of high-value consulting services, we seamlessly combine first-class sector expertise with a wide range of cross-industry capabilities. Our clients value us as an independent, critical voice with an outstanding track record and profound technological expertise. During strategic transformations, they place their trust in our consultants to reflect, analyse, and act at their side. That’s how we make change happen.

Wavestone UK now boasts a team of 300 employees, with ambitions to rapidly grow in the coming years. Our services span business and digital transformation, cybersecurity, operational improvement, risk advisory, and IT advisory. We exist to provide end-to-end expert advice to clients across industries, with a particular focus on Insurance, Financial Services, and Life Sciences helping them to positively transform to become modern, innovative organizations that thrive in a sustainable way.

Our commitment to excellence and our people is underscored by recognition we have received in the UK’s Great Place to Work accreditation process. In 2024 we are proud to have been recognised in the following Best Workplaces categories: Large organisations, Wellbeing, Development, and a Best Workplace for Women.

Recognised by the Financial Times as one of the UK’s Leading Management Consultants 2024, Wavestone UK is motivated and energised team with a collective sense of purpose.

Dedicated to diversity and inclusivity, Wavestone fosters a collaborative and dynamic work environment. Our core values - energetic, responsible, and together - shape the foundation of our corporate culture.

Join us for a rewarding career in management consulting, offering competitive compensation, continuous learning, and ample opportunities for professional growth.

For more information, visit www.wavestone.com and become part of our journey to shape a positive and impactful future.

Job Description

Becoming part of the UK team in our Technology Advisory capability will present new opportunities for you to make a positive impact as we embark on securing major international accounts in our top 20 clients.

This will mean working with our FTSE100 clients and beyond on a wide range of advisory projects, bringing deep business and technology expertise to help address opportunities and challenges across their organisations.

Wavestone has a significant and growing capability in Strategy and Architecture, that is in high demand from our clients. Our clients trust us to tailor advisory engagements to aid with some of their most complex technology problems, and as a result, we are growing our architecture service line to be able to respond to the increasing breadth and complexity of their solution landscapes.

We are looking for talented and experienced Architecture Management Consultants across various levels of seniority that are confident and capable of being a key trusted advisor to clients from the outset – Managers, Senior Managers, or Associate Partners – to join our team leading impactful engagements encompassing (but not limited to):

• Technology Strategy & Architecture: Analysing client and customer needs and developing technology roadmaps and business cases that support movement from an as-is to to-be state to meet defined business outcomes for our clients.
• Technology Driven Transformation: Working as a key technical lead, or as a workstream owner, on complex technology transformations.
• Enterprise Architecture Augmentation: Acting as part of our clients’ architecture teams to provide added capacity or expertise, and/or to mature their own architecture functions.
• Technology Lifecycle Management: Working on specific challenges around upgrade or risk management of our clients.

As a senior leader in architecture, your key responsibilities will cover client delivery, business development, people development, and key contribution to our thought leadership:

• Client engagement lead: Managing strategy and architecture engagements with our clients, responsible for the day to day running of the engagements, including developing strategic recommendations and guidance, and ensure the highest quality service for our clients, and likely acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders.
• Business development: Be a subject matter lead, and lead and support sales activity to include full lifecycle from pre-sales support, identification of cyber opportunities & scope the delivery phase of engagements.
• Thought leadership & proposition ownership: Being a key voice in our architecture community and externally, developing architecture related propositions, approaches to common client challenges, sharing knowledge, and creating thought leadership and marketing materials that support sales efforts.
• People development: Act as an example and go-to for more junior members of the team, by sharing knowledge, mentoring, and coaching team members and leading by example. Possibly provide line management, and career development directly as part of our career development manager framework.
• Maintain expertise: Stay current with the market, most especially in different technologies, platforms, and solutions that are relevant to client challenges or needs.

Whilst we work across different sectors, we are particularly interested in speaking to people with a background on one or more of the following sectors: Financial Services (especially Insurance and Wealth & Asset Management), Life Sciences, Energy & Utilities, and Manufacturing.

Qualifications

Whilst we do not expect you to meet every criterion, we would like strong foundations in technology led transformation and relevant experience across a significant majority of the below for:

• Significant consulting experience, client-facing stakeholder management skills, or equivalent tenure in relevant industries (FS, Insurance, Energy & Utilities, Pharma & Lifesciences etc.).
• Demonstratable proficiency in technology strategy and architecture having been responsible for strategic technology roadmaps and/or enterprise architecture as part of previous work.
• Technical understanding and experience of working on one or multiple Architecture domain areas - Business, Data, Application, Integration, Infrastructure & Security.
• Familiarity with one or more common enterprise application stacks (for example ERP or CRM) with an understanding of the business problems and capabilities that these typically solve for.
• Familiarity with one or more of the hyperscale cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Knowledge of emerging efficiency driving technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, and/or intelligent automation.
• Proficiency in leading strategic Transformation Programmes and strong technical acumen enhancing advisory credibility.
• Ability to manage complex programmes and projects, ensuring effective transformational leadership.
• Proven aptitude in business development, encompassing account planning, pitches, and proposals.

Your Key Abilities:

• Exceptional interpersonal skills spanning organizational levels, including ability to present to executive level stakeholders.
• Leadership in team management, junior staff development, and coaching.
• Strategic technology leadership, able to understand complex business problems in context of technology impacts and action needed.
• Crafting impactful presentations and high-quality reports that can frame complex options, recommendations, and required decisions for client stakeholders.

Desirable Qualifications

• • Architecture – TOGAF, BCS.
  • Platforms – Any certifications in relation to SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce.
  • Cloud – Any certification across the common cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) etc.
  • Change Delivery – Agile PM, Scaled Agile, SCRUM Master, APM, PMP, Prince.
  • Service Management - ITIL v 3 or 4 focus with experience of working in one or more of Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operations, and Continual Service Improvement.

Additional Information

Our commitment: Wavestone values and Positive Way

• Elevate client satisfaction by impacting high-growth business across US, UK, and Europe. Shape culture, enhance value propositions, and foster business development.

• Nurture employee growth with Wavestone horizon career path, competitive compensation, transparent salary policy, tailored training, and internal mobility.

• Embrace a collective mindset within a barrier-free, collaborative team. Engage in vibrant people culture through regular events, meetings, and committees.

• Experience ethical responsibility with flexible work options, strong CSR commitment, and a culture promoting work-life balance and time-off.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus scheme.

• Income protection insurance, 5% company pension, private health and dental cover, life insurance, company share scheme.

• Additional flexible benefits you can select from such as additional holidays, additional pension contributions, subsidized gym, subscriptions to wellbeing apps, Netflix, retail vouchers.

• 25 days annual leave.

Travel and Location

• Employees are not required to work in a Wavestone office on a full-time basis but are required to commute to the office/client site whenever necessary. Wavestone UK office is in the heart of the city of London.

• Note: Mandatory 2-3 days per week in Wavestone office/client site during probation.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Wavestone, we celebrate diversity and inclusion. We have a strong global CSR agenda and an active Diversity & Inclusion committee with Gender Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability Inclusion, Social Mobility, and Anti-Racism networks.

If you need flexibility, assistance, or an adjustment to our recruitment process due to a disability or impairment, please reach out to us to discuss this.