Technology Strategy and Transformation (TS&T) Principal Director

Technology Strategy and Transformation (TS&T) Principal Director

Location: Dublin 

Career Level: 5

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About TS&T Ireland 

Technology Strategy and Transformation (TS&T) a key part of our growing Digital Core service. Here, we develop company-wide IT and digitalisation strategies that exploit ground-breaking technologies and strategically advise our Fortune 500 CIO clients on how to reinvent their IT operating models, enterprise and data architectures, take advantage of cloud, and improve the value they are getting from their IT investments. Our practice has been consistently rated as the best team in the industry by the Financial Times based on client ratings and was key for Accenture to be named a leader by Forrester. 

The Opportunity for You 

We are looking for a recognised technology leader to help grow our Technology Strategy & Transformation practice in Ireland. This role combines client leadership, business development, thought leadership, and delivery oversight to shape large-scale technology-led reinvention for our clients. This role is suited to candidates who bring a strong consulting foundation and experience across several areas of technology strategy, architecture, AI enablement, digital foundations, technology effectiveness, and transformation delivery.

We do not expect every candidate to be an expert in every area; we value thoughtful generalists who can connect business priorities, technology choices, delivery realities, and measurable value outcomes while continuing to be curious about learning.

In this role, you will help clients define, shape and deliver technology products, platforms, operating models and transformation programmes that unlock business value, improve agility and accelerate outcomes. You will work closely with senior client stakeholders, business and industry specialists, engineering teams, architects, designers, analysts, partner vendors and delivery teams to create practical, high-quality outcomes.

What you will help clients do:

• Help clients define how technology functions can create business value through effective operating models, product and platform structures, governance, organisation design and ways of working.
• Shape transformation strategies, business cases, roadmaps, target states, frameworks and recommendations that are pragmatic, actionable and linked to measurable value.
• Assess current-state maturity across areas such as architecture, agile delivery, modern engineering, operating models, governance, AI readiness and technology ways of working.
• Advise clients on how AI and emerging technologies may change IT operating models, workforce capability, governance and client value.
• Guide practical adoption of AI in the software development lifecycle, helping teams reduce delivery cost, improve engineering effectiveness and accelerate time to value.
• Provide oversight and governance across complex transformation programmes, ensuring delivery quality, commercial performance, risk management and achievement of business outcomes.
• Facilitate workshops, planning sessions and governance forums in a clear, inclusive and structured way.

What you will do

• Advise CIOs, CTOs, CDOs and executive leadership teams on technology strategy, AI adoption, operating model transformation and digital reinvention.
• Provide executive leadership across complex client portfolios and strategic transformation programmes, ensuring alignment of business outcomes, delivery execution and commercial performance
• Help clients build AI-ready digital foundations across data, cloud, infrastructure, platforms, enterprise architecture, and modern delivery practices.
• Assess technology estates, operating models, delivery capabilities, resilience, cost, and value to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Support complex transformation programmes by helping teams establish governance, manage risk, track value, and maintain delivery momentum.
• Collaborate across business, technology, data, engineering, infrastructure, managed services, and ecosystem partners to create joined-up solutions.
• Build and develop high-performing consulting teams through coaching, mentoring and career development.
• Establish and share leading practices, methodologies and reusable assets across the TS&T practice
• Practice Growth and Business Development
  • Lead business development activities, including opportunity origination, qualification, proposal development and commercial shaping.
  • Build and maintain C-suite and senior technology stakeholder relationships.
  • Identify new growth opportunities across existing and prospective clients.
  • Contribute to account planning and strategic client development activities.
  • Support and lead responses to RFPs, proposals and client presentations.
  • Contribute to TS&T thought leadership, market propositions and industry eminence activities across Ireland and wider Accenture networks.
  • Develop trusted advisor relationships with CIOs, CTOs and digital leaders.

Experience Requirements

• 10+ years' experience in consulting, technology strategy or technology transformation leadership.
• Proven track record leading technology transformation programmes.
• Experience managing executive client relationships at CIO or equivalent level.
• Demonstrated success contributing to business development, proposal development and sales pursuits.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary consulting teams in complex environments.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience managing budgets, revenue or profitability targets.

Core skills we expect everyone to bring

• AI awareness and curiosity: a practical understanding of how AI, data, and automation are changing businesses, technology functions, and delivery methods.
• Strong communication and storytelling: the ability to explain complex ideas clearly, tailor messages for different audiences, and build confidence with stakeholders.
• Project and change skills: experience helping teams plan, organise, govern, and deliver change in complex environments.
• Business and technology judgement: the ability to connect technology decisions to business outcomes, value, risk, cost, and feasibility.
• Collaboration and adaptability: comfort working across multidisciplinary teams, learning new domains quickly, and contributing beyond a narrow specialism.
• Structured problem solving: the ability to break down ambiguity, identify options, build evidence-based recommendations, and move work forward.

Experience across several of these areas

Candidates should bring skills or experience across several of the areas below. These are the kinds of things our teams do; they are not all mandatory requirements for every candidate.

• Technology strategy and architecture: shaping technology vision, business technology strategy, enterprise architecture, future-state roadmaps, and investment cases.
• AI, data, and digital foundations: supporting AI adoption, data strategy, agentic or AI-enabled platforms, cloud and infrastructure strategies, enterprise SaaS, and modern digital core design.
• Technology modernisation and resilience: assessing legacy estates, defining modernisation pathways, improving resilience, and sequencing practical architecture roadmaps.
• Technology effectiveness and value: improving technology operating models, FinOps, cost optimisation, AI-enabled software delivery, engineering productivity, and value tracking.
• Transformation delivery: supporting large-scale technology programmes, transformation offices, governance, planning, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and benefits realisation.
• Ecosystem and platform collaboration: working with major technology platforms, cloud providers, software vendors, and cross-functional delivery teams to shape integrated solutions.

Important note on requirements

This is intentionally not a checklist of mandatory must-haves. We expect candidates to demonstrate the core consulting, communication, AI awareness, project, and change skills described above, and to bring meaningful experience across several of the capability areas. We welcome candidates who can learn quickly, collaborate broadly, and apply good judgement across a range of client challenges.

About Accenture

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 791,000 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 combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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