Data Center Technology- Server Technologie...

Company:

Accenture HR Services

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Location:

US-IL-Chicago

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Date:

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

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Description

Organization:   Systems Integration and Technology

Location:          Location Negotiable

Travel:              100% (Monday - Friday)

Systems Integration and Technology (SI&T) offers a full range of global delivery services-from enterprise solutions, system integration, technical architectures, business intelligence, infrastructure consulting, and technology research/development.

Our SI&T 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

Accenture Technology Consulting (ATC) falls within the SI&T organization and provides services aimed at improving the strategic intent, transforming economics and effectiveness, and the overall design, of a company's information technology capabilities and/or functions. Information technology capabilities include IT planning and management, IT processes and approaches, and IT assets that provide the operational components necessary to run applications.

Accenture's Next Generation Data Center solutions focus on achieving high performance by transforming all aspects of data center infrastructure and operations by centralizing data center facilities, rationalizing and virtualizing servers, implementing tiered and virtualized storage, and introducing automated provisioning, predictive operations and business service management capabilities-all while taking into account (and benefiting from) service-oriented architectures.

Job Description:

Server Technologies professionals develop and deliver server technology strategies and solutions that enable computers residing on the same or different systems to access and utilize enterprise data.

Key responsibilities may include:

•           Planning and managing diagnosis and assessment activities and defining high-level program/action plans

•           Identifying opportunities to drive more value from an organization's IT strategy through technology strategies in targeted areas, including technology infrastructure (overall as well as security, networks, and desktop) and technology architecture (overall as well as mobility, portals, and information management)

•           Ensuring technology requirements will allow modeling and address performance and security

•           Ensuring high level design supports a robust technology solution, taking into account the user requirements, technical requirements, etc. (e.g., solution architecture)

•           Planning and managing technology design activities

•           Being recognized as an expert on one or more technology vendors/products/areas

•           Leading the technology evaluation and selection effort

•           Planning and managing capacity planning activities

•           Planning and managing program-wide technology build, test and deployment activities

•           Being an expert in troubleshooting and performance tuning one or more technology products