AMI Solution Architect
Accenture, Miami, FL, United States
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 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.
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. 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.
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.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
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.
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