Organization: Technology Growth Platform/ Architecture, Development & Integration
Position: Java Technology Delivery Consultant
Location: Location Negotiable (Preferred locations: Reston, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York, Florham Park, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco)
Travel: 100% (Monday - Thursday)
Employment Type: Permanent/Full Time

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 261,000 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$27.9 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2012.

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

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.

Job Description:
Technology Growth Platform (TGP) offers a full range of global delivery services-from enterprise solutions, system integration, technical architectures, business intelligence, infrastructure consulting, and technology research/development.

Our TGP consultants can expect to:
• Work with cutting edge technology
• Deliver high-quality solutions across multiple industries
• Work on a variety of projects ranging in both size and scope
• Receive continuous training
• gain rapid career progression
The Architecture, Development & Integration group within TGP contributes to Accenture growth by developing highly skilled individuals who drive innovation, improve delivery effectiveness and increase win-rates through differentiated, specialized, world-class capability.

Key Delivery Responsibilities May Include:
• Working with the client's application development and support teams to design, develop, and support application technical solutions
• Collaborating with the client's business owners to identify desired functionality, business requirements, and business use cases
• Defining and establishing development architectures, which includes automated and continuous build capabilities
• Performing technology architecture design activities, portions of technology build, test and implementation activities, refine and enhance architecture and framework, as well as troubleshoot and debug technology integration problems
• Driving quality assurance, code reviews, testing of application modules, and delivery methodology processes to ensure successful project delivery
• Assisting in project selection of framework and third party architecture and integration frameworks, taking into consideration all relevant requirements, project scope and feasibility concerns
• Designing and developing proof of concepts as needed, integrating new components with back office systems during the design and requirements phase to evaluate products and integration strategies
• Possessing familiarity with common, relevant architecture frameworks and being able to use them in diagnosing and assessing architectures
• Leading the estimation effort for projects and work to identify and manage risk
• Communicating effectively with team members and clients to gain the required knowledge to perform these tasks
• Working with remote team members or clients
100% US travel (Monday-Thursday) required with potential to stay Friday depending on project need

Basic Qualifications:
• Minimum of 3 years custom development experience
• Minimum of 2 years experience with object oriented programming (preferably Java)
• Minimum of 2 years experience with architecture design skills
• Minimum of 3 years previous consulting and/or client service delivery experience
• Bachelor's Degree
• 100% travel is required
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with various software development methodologies including Agile, RUP and Waterfall
• Experience with software frameworks such as Spring, Struts, and Hibernate
• Experience with software development estimating techniques
• Experience with system testing and validation experience
• Experience with build and migration experience
• Experience with technical deployment and roll-out support
• Eagerness to contribute in a team oriented environment
• Strong Communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem solving environment
• Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian
• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian
Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).**

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women

If interested, please respond to Jina.Cade@accenture.com