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Accenture

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Enterprise Architect End-to-End Technical Architect

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
No salary listed
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Madrid, Spain
RemoteRemote from Madrid, Spain; hybrid work model is also described. Travel of 25–30% may be required for program locations.
ConsultingTechnology & Systems Consulting

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 10 years of experience in technical architecture or senior engineering, including at least 5 years in systems integration program delivery in financial services or banking.
  • Proven end-to-end architecture experience owning solution architecture across multiple integrated platforms simultaneously, rather than specializing in a single platform.
  • Deep expertise in enterprise integration patterns, including REST and SOAP API design, event-driven architecture, middleware such as MuleSoft or Azure Integration Services, and data-flow design between heterogeneous systems.
  • Strong ServiceNow technical knowledge, including platform architecture, Integration Hub, scripted REST APIs, scoped applications, and enterprise-scale performance considerations.
  • Hands-on understanding of RPA architecture, including Blue Prism or equivalent object studio design patterns, orchestration, exception handling, and integration with surrounding systems.
  • Experience designing for regulated banking environments, including data classification, security zoning, audit-trail requirements, and compliance-aligned architecture decisions.
  • Ability to operate in dual-shore delivery, set technical standards that offshore factory teams can execute without continuous handholding, and review their output effectively.
  • Ability to produce precise, unambiguous architecture documentation usable by business stakeholders and technical build teams.
  • Ability to make and defend architecture decisions, accept challenges from client architects, and change position when evidence warrants it.
  • Ability to see how platform-level decisions create downstream constraints and avoid optimizing one component at the expense of the whole.
  • Ability to produce implementable designs within practical constraints of time, team, and technology.
  • Ability to govern technical quality through influence in a multi-party systems integration environment without direct line authority over factory teams or client infrastructure.
  • Ability to communicate across technical and non-technical audiences, presenting architecture risk to executive sponsors and technical detail to factory leads.
Responsibilities
  • Own end-to-end technical architecture across ServiceNow, Blue Prism, Sisense, Task/Facade API, and Optimus, ensuring consistent design decisions across workstreams.
  • Define and maintain integration architecture, including data flows, API contracts, middleware patterns, and event/trigger models between core banking systems and platforms.
  • Produce and govern solution design documents, integration playbooks, and architectural decision records.
  • Lead technical design sessions with offshore factory leads and external subject-matter experts; translate business requirements from functional specifications into implementable technical designs.
  • Review and sign off on workstream leads’ technical designs before build begins; enforce architecture standards and reject non-conforming designs at stage gates.
  • Serve as the primary technical interface to client architecture and infrastructure teams, aligning on platform access, security policy, data handling, and production deployment requirements.
  • Define and maintain non-functional requirements, including performance SLAs, availability targets, security controls, data-residency constraints, and disaster-recovery posture for each platform.
  • Identify and mitigate technical risks, surface architecture risks early, size technical debt, and recommend remediation paths with delivery-impact assessments.
  • Support pre-production and production deployment planning, including environment strategy, release sequencing, rollback design, and go/no-go technical criteria.
  • Guide integration of AI-assisted delivery by defining safe technical boundaries for AI-generated code and establishing review standards at code gates.
  • Build and manage client and Operations relationships; set expectations across clients, Operations leadership, and delivery teams; make independent decisions within the area of responsibility and maintain client and Operations satisfaction.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with Sisense.
  • Familiarity with Optimus or similar bot-orchestration frameworks in a banking context.
  • Prior architecture delivery on KYC, AML, Estates, or client-lifecycle programs within EU regulatory frameworks.
  • Architecture governance experience, including running design authorities, ADR processes, or technical review boards within a systems integration program.
  • TOGAF, ArchiMate, or AWS/Azure architecture certification.
  • Experience integrating AI-generated code into an enterprise delivery pipeline, including defining review gates, quality standards, and risk controls.

About the company

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Dublin, Ireland

Founded

1989

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  • Business demand grew: October 2026 results showed $74.2 billion annual revenue, up 5% in local currency.
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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Professional Development Budget
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • 401(k) Company Match

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