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Accenture's

Consulting

workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.

Working as a consultant with Accenture, you will build core business, technology and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses. Consultants must be professionals who have an interest in how business processes work and interact. In addition, consultants need to apply their skills in project and program management while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, and organizational change. Finally, consultants also need to have a working knowledge of the industry and/or the functional areas they serve.

The Consulting workforce is made up of three groups: Management Consulting, Systems Integration Consulting and Technology Consulting. This consulting group structure provides outstanding opportunities to develop highly specialized skills that will help you advance your career.

Job Description

Technology Consulting

professionals are responsible for delivering technology innovation and providing the backbone of our systems integration business.

Infrastructure Consulting

professionals develop and deliver strategies and solutions for housing the computer systems and communications equipment -- including servers, databases, storage devices, infrastructure etc. -- that handle the data necessary for enterprise operations.

Key responsibilities may include:

• Driving, supervising and reviewing technology diagnosis and assessment activities
• Identifying opportunities for technology-related improvement based on benchmark data and doing high-level cost benefit analysis
• Developing a high level design which supports a robust technology solution, taking into account the user requirements, technical requirements, etc.
• Driving technology architecture and infrastructure design activities
• Reviewing and supervising design components
• Developing design and transition approaches
• Driving and supervising technology build, test and deployment activities
• Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and supporting application development

Qualifications

Minimum 3 years experience required in any of the below skills/areas or in General Infrastructure technologies or strategy

3+ Years Hardware Platform experience (Unix/Wintel - HP/Sun/IBM etc.)

3+ Years Operating Systems experience (Windows/Unix - All versions)

3+ Years experience with Application/Database rationalization design/implementation - includes application migration/consolidation and database rationalization experience.

3+ Years experience with Storage Technologies (SAN/NAS) including Hardware & Software (EMC/NetApp/Sun/IBM/HP etc.)

Datacenter/Server Operational Components experience an asset

Datacenter/Server Consolidation Project Experience an asset

Experience with virtualized environments (VMware, etc.)

Experience with back-up, archiving and vaulting (Symantec/Veritas Netbackup and all the associated hardware and networking related to back-up solutions).

Ability to translate technologies and create business cases

ITIL certification preferred

Minimum of a Bachelors Degree is required

Flexibility to travel up to 75%

Professional Skill Requirements

Proven ability to build, manage and foster 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 communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

Excellent leadership and management skills

All of 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.

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 236,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$25.5 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2011. Its home page is

www.accenture.com

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We are committed to employment equity. We encourage all people, including women, visible minorities, persons with disabilities and persons of aboriginal descent to apply

Accenture promotes a workforce that is reflective of the communities we live in and the clients that we support. At Accenture, we believe in inclusion and diversity.
Accenture - 13 months ago